Comments on: Getting More Fine-Grained with Includes

By: realistdreamer

realistdreamer — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:20:55 +0000

I used to do this “including” all the time before WP and will again while using the Hybrid theme. I do it both in specific template files as well as using conditionals to decide which include to use.

The simplest use is figuring out what goes in a sidebar based on the category of the post. I plan to do much variation in the sidebars, but I may use the “who sees ads” plugin.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:28:39 +0000

And great idea moving to DigWP.com, that’s an awesome domain (why didn’t I think of registering that?), I always thought the previous one was too long.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:28:01 +0000

Great idea, Chris, I already use this method to include files based on the page loaded, just didn’t know the theoretical stuff (modularity or whatever it is called).

Only difference is, I have only a handful of files, and didn’t bother to create a new directory to store them. Now that I say that, I believe Thesis and similar complicated frameworks use the same technique too…

By: Karlo

Karlo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:09:50 +0000

Thanks Chris, your tut is simulating ‘modular programming’ and an old programmer like me has used this concept for years in various technologies and in my opinion is definitely the way to go, especially when you find yourself beginning to copy/paste the same code in different source files, it becomes a maintenance nightmare. Much easier to have a repository of modules/snippets/includes/classes (whatever you want to call them) that can be reused and managed centrally.

By: John

John — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:38:14 +0000

the categories and archives are broken on the site itself in IE 8 and lower. works fine in FF not sure about any other browsers.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:43:26 +0000

This is a nice idea however wouldn’t too many includes cause the page to take longer to be delivered to the end user?

It would be just interesting to know

By: Hassan

Hassan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:50 +0000

I like the idea. DRY is a good thing. I think it would be better to put “includes” in functions, just like get_sidebar or get_header(). for example define a function in functions.php named get_meta_bar() and it will include that file. it is more DRY because you can reuse your functions…

By: Jeff Starr

Jeff Starr — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:45:19 +0000

Are you referring to one of our downloadable themes or the site itself..?