The WordPress Template Hierarchy

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Description

wphierarchy.com is a visualization of the WordPress theme template hierarchy.

Official documentation is located at: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy.

https://wphierarchy.com

Credits

• David Hayes (site, on-going maintenance)
• Michelle Schulp (design)
• Rami Abraham (original code, site)
• Chip Bennett (original WordPress Template Hierarchy visualization)
• Mel Choyce, Dashicons icons ( icons, https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#vault )

Installation

• Requires gulp (npm install -g gulp)
• git clone https://github.com/ramiabraham/wphierarchy.git
• npm install

Contributing

• Create an issue
• Fork
• Submit PR

API

WPHierarchy.com has a rest api available at https://wphierarchy.com/api.

The api contains the following data:

• Stable version (the WordPress version currently supported by wphierarchy.com)

• Stable link (a link to the relevant WordPress.org release post)

• An array of objects in hierarchy_items, each structured as an array itself:

    ```
    array(
    	"object_id"      => "c1r1",
    	"semantic_id"    => "archive_page",
    	"name"           => "Archive Page",
    	"description"    => "",
    	"link"           => "https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index#The_Archives_Page",
    	"classification" => "archive",
    	"tip"            => "",
    	"since"          => ""
    )
    ```
    So if you wish to get the names of all items, your request would be for:
    `data.hierarchy_items.name`
  

To-do:

• Add links to the Codex for each item
• Add color-coded legend below header
• Add json api~~
• Refactor with css that isn't completely insane (complete rewrite with scss)
• Provide an easier means of l11n
• Add contextual highlighting via the hierarchy_items.classification variable.
• Add example loops, template files, and/or semantic data (coming soon; the parameter in the api which will contain this data is tips). An example of the small, desired strings for tips can be seen in the 4.5 embeds addition.
• Create an easy-to-use submission process on the site for tips.
• Finish cool secrets (if there are any, which there aren't).

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Changelog:

v2, June 28, 2016

• Introduce API, located at https://wphierarchy.com/api
• Complete rewrite of the UI, using a single svg element and <foreignobject> nodes.
• Some other secret things.
• Specified license.

Licensing:

Code: MIT License

WordPress template hierarchy design: Copyright 2016, Michelle Schulp

Wapuu character, Dashicons: GPL, via the Japanese WordPress Community

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