What is Timber?
Timber is an open source WordPress plugin created by Upstatement that allows developers to build WordPress themes using the Twig PHP templating engine. It serves as a templating framework that integrates Twig into WordPress themes for a cleaner, more sustainable code base.
Some of the key benefits of using Timber for WordPress theming include:
- Cleaner theme code - Timber abstracts away a lot of the messy WordPress code out of templates and into reusable PHP classes.
- Twig templating - Twig is a fast, secure and flexible templating language that is easier to read and write in templates.
- Object-oriented coding - Timber allows you to work with posts, terms, users etc. as objects instead of arrays.
- Documentation - Timber is well-documented with loads of real-world code examples for reference.
- Active support - As an open source project, Timber has an active community behind it providing support.
- Extensions - There are extensions available to integrate additional functionality.
Overall, Timber aims to make WordPress theme development easier and more pleasant for developers using best practices. If you find WordPress theming messy, Timber cleans it up nicely while being performant and customizable at the same time.