Category: Notes (Page 25 of 50)

One of the nicest features of WordPress 3.5 was the introduction of a refresh of the WordPress Media Uploader.

For developers who aren’t familiar with the change, the short of it is a new version of the media uploader was built using Backbone.js and Underscore.js both of which are newer JavaScript libraries that introduce a different type of structure to creating JavaScript-intense web applications.

Sometimes, one of the challenges that comes with working with any new feature is the lack of documentation around how to take advantage of it. When that happens, you’re more or less left to dig into the core source code and/or the documentation for each of the specific libraries to learn how to use them.

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I’ve talked before about how I think the addition of the WordPress Theme Customizer (well, soon to be called the Customizer) is one of the nicest additions to the core application in a long time. I’ve also talked about how I fear the direction that some developers will take it.

Regardless, if you’ve worked with the Customizer long enough – especially when it comes to the JavaScript aspect of it – then you’ve likely noticed that you can end up writing relatively repetitive code especially when you’re working with something such as a list of items or something similar.

When you end up reaching this particular point, having too much of the same code with the only variations being a few strings ends up being a bit of a code smell.

In order to prevent this, it’s often better to write helper functions that abstracts the repetitive functionality into a single, ahem, function that you can call with the strings that are unique to your use case.

Here’s what I mean.

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Late last year, I wrote a post that provided a way on how to include a page template in a WordPress plugin. There’s an accompanying project on GitHub that’s been maintained and relatively-well updated since.

Although this post is similar in nature, it doesn’t exactly deal with templates, but parts of code that may be considered partials (or template parts, in WordPress).

Let’s say that you’ve got a single post and you want to append a template to the end of the content. The content can be a little more complicated that markup because that’s easy enough to do inline, isn’t it?

So, for all intents and purposes, let’s say that we have a partial that includes a form that can be used to submit some type of information.

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