WordPress Blade Plugin

Use Laravel Blade components in WordPress.

🚨 Note: Only Anonymous Components are currently supported: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/blade#anonymous-components

Built by the super talented team at Travelopia.

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Installation

Install via Composer (recommended):

$ composer require travelopia/wordpress-blade

• Your composer file should include this

{
	"name": "your/packagename",
	"description": "Description",
	"extra": {
		"installer-paths": {
			"wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}/": ["type:wordpress-muplugin"]
		}
	},
	"require": {
		"travelopia/wordpress-blade": "^1.0.0",
		"composer/installers": "^2.3"
	},
	"config": {
		"allow-plugins": {
			"composer/installers": true
		}
	},
	"scripts": {
		"wordpress-blade": "wordpress-blade"
	}
}

• This installs it as an MU Plugin.
• Then load this plugin in your mu plugins loader file e.g. mu-plugins/loader.php

require_once WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR . '/wordpress-blade/plugin.php';

• Then require the autoload file from vendor directory by adding the following code in your wp-config.php file.

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

Manual Installation (if you know what you are doing):

1. Download this repository as a ZIP file.
2. Run composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
3. Use it either as an MU plugin or a normal plugin!

Building for Production

Compile your Blade components for production as a best practice. Some production environments are read-only, in which case this step is necessary.

Run the following command:

composer exec wordpress-blade -- --config-file=blade.config.php - Ensure the path to the Blade config is correct.

Usage

First, create a blade.config.php file at the root of your project, and add the following code in there:

<?php
/**
 * Blade Config.
 *
 * @package wordpress-blade
 */

define(
	'WORDPRESS_BLADE',
	[
		'paths_to_views'         => [
			__DIR__ . '/wp-content/themes/<your-theme>/<path-to-your-components>',
			// Any other paths where Blade needs to look for components.
		],
		'path_to_compiled_views' => __DIR__ . '/wp-content/themes/<your-theme>/dist/blade', // Where you want Blade to save compiled files.
		'never_expire_cache'     => false, // Use `true` on production environments.
		'base_path'              => __DIR__, // The base path that is common to the front-end and admin.
	]
);

Bootstrap a layout.

As a best practice, and if applicable, bootstrap an entire layout like so:

# bootstrap.blade.php
<x-layout>
    <x-hello name="Jane">Hi there!</x-hello>
</x-layout>

# layout.blade.php
@php
    get_header();
@endphp

    <main>
        {{ $slot }}
    </main>

@php
    get_footer();
@endphp

# hello.blade.php
@props( [
    'name' => '',
] )

<div>
    <h1>{{ $slot }}</h1>
    <p>Hello, {{ $name }}</p>
</div>

And then load the view in your template:

Travelopia\Blade\load_view( 'bootstrap' );

You can also load an individual component like so:

$name       = 'hello';              // The name of the component.
$attributes = [ 'name' => 'Jane' ]; // Properties / attributes to pass into the component.
$echo       = true;                 // Whether to echo the component. `false` returns the component as a string.

Travelopia\Blade\load_view( $name, $attributes, $echo );

This is especially useful when you want to load components from Blocks and Full Site Editing.