load_template( string $_template_file, bool $require_once = true, array $args = array() )
Require the template file with WordPress environment.
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Description
The globals are set up for the template file to ensure that the WordPress environment is available from within the function. The query variables are also available.
Parameters
- $_template_file
-
(string) (Required) Path to template file.
- $require_once
-
(bool) (Optional) Whether to require_once or require.
Default value: true
- $args
-
(array) (Optional) Additional arguments passed to the template.
Default value: array()
More Information
Uses global: (object) $wp_query to extract extract() global variables returned by the query_vars method while protecting the current values in these global variables:
- (unknown type) $posts
- (unknown type) $post
- (boolean) $wp_did_header Returns true if the WordPress header was already loaded. See the /wp-blog-header.php file for details.
- (boolean) $wp_did_template_redirect
- (object) $wp_rewrite
- (object) $wpdb
- (string) $wp_version holds the installed WordPress version number.
- (string) $wp
- (string) $id
- (string) $comment
- (string) $user_ID
Source
File: wp-includes/template.php
function load_template( $_template_file, $require_once = true, $args = array() ) {
global $posts, $post, $wp_did_header, $wp_query, $wp_rewrite, $wpdb, $wp_version, $wp, $id, $comment, $user_ID;
if ( is_array( $wp_query->query_vars ) ) {
/*
* This use of extract() cannot be removed. There are many possible ways that
* templates could depend on variables that it creates existing, and no way to
* detect and deprecate it.
*
* Passing the EXTR_SKIP flag is the safest option, ensuring globals and
* function variables cannot be overwritten.
*/
// phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.DontExtract.extract_extract
extract( $wp_query->query_vars, EXTR_SKIP );
}
if ( isset( $s ) ) {
$s = esc_attr( $s );
}
if ( $require_once ) {
require_once $_template_file;
} else {
require $_template_file;
}
}
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Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.5.0 | The $args parameter was added. |
| 1.5.0 | Introduced. |
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Loading a template in a plugin, but allowing theme and child theme to override template
if ( $overridden_template = locate_template( 'some-template.php' ) ) { /* * locate_template() returns path to file. * if either the child theme or the parent theme have overridden the template. */ load_template( $overridden_template ); } else { /* * If neither the child nor parent theme have overridden the template, * we load the template from the 'templates' sub-directory of the directory this file is in. */ load_template( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/templates/some-template.php' ); }Expand full source codeCollapse full source code
Send variable with load_template()
you can send additional variable with load_template(). load_template() extracts all of the WP_Query query variables, into the scope of the loaded template.
use set_query_var() to make your variable available to the template part.
$template = locate_template('template.php'); if( $template ){ set_query_var('my_variable ', 'Hello Template File' ); load_template( $template ); }In template.php file you can access this variable like this
//Output will be "Hello Template File" echo $my_variable;