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@jarednova jarednova released this 23 Oct 19:17
0.15.0
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Huge improvements coming in this release of Timber. Here's the big stuff:

Caching:

@mgmartel did some great work on caching. Now when go to render, you can set an expires time (in seconds):

Timber::render('single.twig', $data, 1200)

There are several different caching methods you can send:

Timber::render('single.twig', $data, 1200, TimberLoader::CACHE_USE_DEFAULT)
Timber::render('single.twig', $data, 1200, TimberLoader::CACHE_SITE_TRANSIENT)
Timber::render('single.twig', $data, 1200, TimberLoader::CACHE_TRANSIENT)
Timber::render('single.twig', $data, 1200, TimberLoader::CACHE_OBJECT)

... if you send nothing (as the first example) it will default to CACHE_USE_DEFAULT which is actually transient. WordPress transients first use a persistent object cache (if you have it enabled) or fallback to using the database cache. I've noticed great performance boosts from this, giving me 50% - 65% decrease in rendering time. There are slight benefits to object cache (speed-wise), but the gains are very similar for DB cache

In-Template Caching

You can also use the {% cache %} tag inside of a .twig file to cache parts of the template. @mgmartel explains the details

Changes to Timber::render

Warning: Breaking Change That said, this is an edge-case. It used to be that the third argument for Timber::render was $echo (which defaulted to true). In some circumstances you might have had it just return the rendered template w/o echo'ing so that you could store it separately. Now, you can do this with Timber::compile :

$megamenu = get_my_mega_menu();
$data['megamenu_rendered'] = Timber::compile('megamenu.twig', $megamenu);
Timber::render('page.twig', $data, 3600);

Post next/prev

@thisislawatts contributed next/prev post methods. Inside of a post object you can do:

{{post.get_next}}

... to return the next post (and also do {{post.get_next.title}}, etc.)

Misc

  • @daslicht made post.get_preview a little simpler for when you want to omit the "read more"
  • Misc cleanup to keep making things more consistent from object-to-object.
  • Some small internal caching things to prevent extra queries
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