Wordpress To MVC

Setup for Laravel 5.x

1. set up your Laravel site
2. download and set up WordPress in a separate folder within your public folder, e.g., /public/wordpress
3. Place the wordpress-to-laravel-mvc directory to your /public/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ directory, and then choose that theme from your Wordpress dashboard
4. Add the following lines to the top of your /public/index.php file (before the boostrapping):

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| WordPress
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Integrate WordPress with Laravel core
|
*/

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require __DIR__.'/../public/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php';

5. Place WordPressServiceProvider.php into your /app/Providers directory
6. add the following line to the config/app.php 'providers' array:

App\Providers\WordPressServiceProvider::class

Usage

• Check if a post or page URL slug exists within WordPress:

WordPressServiceProvider::check_route('my-page-or-post');
// Returns an object with a post type

• Build Heirarchical menu based off of WordPress Menus:

WordPressServiceProvider::menu('My Awesome Menu', 1);
// returns a menu object. The second parameter is the current page ID

• Get a specific page or post object by ID:

WordPressServiceProvider::post(1);
// returns a post object

• Query for specific posts or pages using the WP_Query syntax:

WordPressServiceProvider::query($query);
// returns an array of post objects