Theme Includes

A way to organize theme files.

Directory Structure

theme/
└─inc/
  ├─static.php     # wp_enqueue_style() and wp_enqueue_script()
  ├─menus.php      # register_nav_menus()
  ├─hooks.php      # add_filter() and add_action()
  ├─helpers.php    # Helper functions and classes
  ├─widgets/       # Theme widgets
  │ ├─{widget-name}/
  │ │ ├─class-widget-{widget-name}.php # class Widget_{Widget_Name} extends WP_Widget { ... }
  │ │ ├─some-file.php
  │ │ └─some-dir/
  │ │   └─...
  │ └─...
  └─includes/      # All .php files are auto included (no need to require_once)
    ├─some-file.php
    └─...

File Descriptions

• helpers.php, hooks.php, includes/*.php are included right away
• static.php is included on wp_enqueue_scripts action
• widgets/{hello-world}/class-widget-{Hello_World}.php are included on widgets_init action

Install

1. Download the archive

• Extract it to your theme root directory

• Include the init.php file from your theme functions.php

   include_once get_template_directory() .'/inc/init.php';