Handbook Examples: Templates

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File	Template tag
`header.php`	`get_header()`
`footer.php`	`get_footer()`
`sidebar.php`	`get_sidebar()`
`searchform.php`	`get_search_form()`
`comments.php`	`comments_template()`

File

Template tag

header.php

get_header()

footer.php

get_footer()

sidebar.php

get_sidebar()

searchform.php

get_search_form()

comments.php

comments_template()

// loop-category.php, loop.php get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' ); // loop-category.php, loop-archive.php, loop.php locate_template( array( 'loop-category.php', 'loop-archive.php', 'loop.php' ), true, false );

Edward Caissie 1:30 am on April 15, 2015

Some nice template play to also keep in mind:

get_sidebar( 'footer' ); will call sidebar-footer.php
get_sidebar( 'header' ); will call sidebar-header.php
get_header( 'single' ); will call header-single.php
etc.
- Jose Castaneda 8:06 am on April 15, 2015
  
  Yes! I almost forgot that you can also use a different location for the comments.php as well by using comments_template( '/inc/comments.php' )

There’s get_template_part() and locate_template().

I also wrote an extensive tutorial that we used to link to. I don’t think we have it linked anymore.

Justin Tadlock 3:25 pm on April 15, 2015

get_search_form() is a special case. It specifically outputs a search form generated by WordPress. A searchform.php template will overwrite that. And, a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. on the get_search_form hook will overwrite everything.

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