Smart Blade templates

In Advanced Views, Layout and Post Selection templates support Blade as a template engine.

Important: Blade requires PHP 8.2.0 or later. You should continue using vanilla PHP or Twig if you can't change the PHP version of your website for any reason.

1. Usage

Using Blade over Twig is a good idea if you're a seasoned PHP developer, as Blade, unlike Twig, is closer to PHP and allows you to call any PHP (and WordPress) functions directly within the template.

For example, you can call a WordPress translate ('__') function for any string like this:

{{ __("string", "domain") }}

Keep in mind that the output is escaped, so if you need to print a variable with HTML, you need to define a raw output by replacing the curly brackets with exclamation marks, like this:

{!! $my_var !!}

You can read more about Blade in the official docs.

2. Blade version

Currently, Advanced Views uses version 11.7.0 of the illuminate/view package.