Wordpress DRY Development Techniques

Some cool thing I didn’t know:

get_header(), get_footer(), get_sidebar() - Will get the respective template files. For example: get_header() will get header.php.

get_header('custom') - Will get header-custom.php file.

get_template_part() - Will also allow you to get any custom template file. Just pass the file names into the functions split by dashes.

Ex: get_template_part('inc/partner', 'box') - inc/partner-box.php

get_post_format() - Will get the format of the post.

get_post_type() - Will get the type of the current post.

It is common practice to post custom functions in a file located at inc/tempate-tags.php.