Chip Bennett Working On New Template Hierarchy Diagram

Chip Bennett is currently in the middle of creating an updated version of the template hierarchy diagram which shows the structure of how a page is displayed. The new diagram is a bit more detailed than the old one. These diagrams are an excellent way to learn about Template Tags in WordPress as well as visually see the process for determining which page is displayed.

Old Template Diagram

New Template Diagram

Chip Bennett is looking for feedback on his version of the template diagram. You can either comment on this article with your feedback or give him a shout out on twitter via @Chip_Bennett.

Category: Themes

Tags: diagram, tags, templates, Themes

8 responses to “Chip Bennett Working On New Template Hierarchy Diagram”

Chip Bennett says:

October 26, 2011 at 6:20 PM

Thanks for the shout-out, Jeff! Just FYI, I’m posting revisions here as I update the diagram. I think the third revision should be just about at the spit-and-polish stage…

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Ryan says:

October 26, 2011 at 11:58 PM

Thanks for the hard work Chip!

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John Blackbourn says:

October 27, 2011 at 3:48 AM

Chip I think your comment system swallowed my comment (no feedback after posting it) so I’ll post it here.

Good work Chip! This is a really nice improvement.

There’s an error though (looking at rev 3). The is_tax() conditional isn’t true for category and tag archives as the diagram states. The “Taxonomy Archive” block should be removed, and the “Category Archive”, “Tag Archive”, and “Custom Taxonomy Archive” blocks should be moved up to the same level as “Date Archive”, “Author Archive” and “Custom Post Type Archive”.

Also the “Custom Post Type Archive” block can have “post-type-archive post-type-archive-$posttype” added for its body classes.

John

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Rev. Voodoo says:

October 27, 2011 at 7:08 AM

Yup, same thing happened to me on your site Chip, no feedback on commenting. Was stating that I send people to the diagram very frequently from the forums, and VoodooPress. Your diagram is far better than the word chart I had running, which was only one step up from a cocktail napkin. Much appreciate the effort!

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Chip Bennett says:

October 27, 2011 at 7:58 AM

@John Blackbourn –

There’s an error though (looking at rev 3). The is_tax() conditional isn’t true for category and tag archives as the diagram states.

Oh, dear! Thanks for pointing that out. I inferred that from the is_tax() Codex page, which just states “Taxonomy” as opposed to custom taxonomy, and which also lists all of the core-registered taxonomies.

(Note to self: update is_tax() Codex page to clarify.)

The “Taxonomy Archive” block should be removed, and the “Category Archive”, “Tag Archive”, and “Custom Taxonomy Archive” blocks should be moved up to the same level as “Date Archive”, “Author Archive” and “Custom Post Type Archive”.

Sure enough! Fixed in my working copy.

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Chip Bennett says:

October 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM

@John and @Rev: your comments are approved; thanks for the heads-up. I’ll try to figure out why the lack of feedback on-submit.

Also: just added Rev 4, which addresses comments from John, Nacin, and others.

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Chuck Reynolds says:

October 28, 2011 at 10:00 AM

nice… very much needed update. good job so far – like it

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matt mcinvale says:

October 28, 2011 at 2:50 PM

thanks chip! very much appreciated.

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