WordPress is awesome \u2014 but the loop isn\u2019t. When you’re writing a custom theme, even simple site requirements can turn your home.php file into a muck of code. Clean markup? Good luck. At Upstatement, we wanted better templates. So we built them.<\/p>\n
At Upstatement we integrated Twig (a template language like Mustache, Hogan and Handlebars) into WordPress to speed-up code, testing, and design. Designers and front-end developers can work quickly with the clarity of HTML and use variables from WordPress where they need. This dramatically simplifies and speeds-up the theme development process.<\/p>\n
Template languages are a major feature of Rails, Node and Django, but not something found in WordPress (until now). In this session, I’ll walk you through how to build a theme using Timber and Twig. With this understanding, you’ll be making more themes with cleaner code and less debugging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordPress is awesome \u2014 but the loop isn\u2019t. When you’re writing a custom theme, even simple site requirements can turn your home.php file into a muck of code. Clean markup? Good luck. At Upstatement, we wanted better templates. So we … Continue reading WordPress Templates are Broken! (but we can fix them)<\/span>