WordPress Blade
===============
Brings Laravel's great template engine, Blade, to WordPress. Just install and start using blade in your theme.
Blade is the template engine for Laravel, a very popular php framework, developed by Taylor Otwell. This plugin brings the same template engine to WordPress. Using a template engine will result in much cleaner template files and quicker development. Normal php can still be used in the template files. The plugin also adds a WordPress specific snippet to blade. Check out the examples for more info.
**WordPress Repository**:
[Blade](http://wordpress.org/plugins/blade/)
**Blade Tutorial on YouTube**:
[Video Tutorial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6JJtr0Frcs)
### Echo/Print
```php
// Normal
// Blade
{{ $foo }}
```
### Post Data
```php
// Normal
// Blade
{{ the_title() }}
```
### If Statements
**Normal**
```php
 ?>/images/thumbnail-default.jpg)
```
**Blade**
```php
@if( has_post_thumbnail() )
{{ the_post_thumbnail() }}
@else
 }}/images/thumbnail-default.jpg)
@endif
```
### WordPress Loop
**Normal**
```php
'post' ) ); ?>
have_posts() ) : ?>
have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>
-
```
**Blade**
```php
@wpquery( array( 'post_type' => 'post' ) )
- {{ the_title() }}
@wpempty
- {{ __( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ) }}
@wpend
```
### Advanced Custom Fields
**Normal**
```php
```
**Blade**
```php
@acfrepeater('images')
- {{ get_sub_field( 'image' ) }}
@acfend
```
### Including Files
Files included with functions, e.g. `the_header()`, will not be compiled by Blade, however the php code in the file is still executed. To include a file with blade use:
```php
@include( 'header' )
```
Note that you should not type “.php”.
### Layouts
**master.php**
```php
@yield( 'content' )
```
**page.php**
```php
@layout( 'master' )
@section( 'content' )
Lorem ipsum
@endsection
```
## Documentation
Check out the complete [Blade Documentation](http://laravel3.veliovgroup.com/docs/views/templating#blade-template-engine) for more examples.
## Contributing
Pull requests are highly appreciated. Feel free to report a bug, typo, enhancement or a feature you want to add to the plugin.