Code Recipes

This highly practical section provides walkthroughs for many common development tasks you’ll encounter when using WordPress and MasterPress as a CMS for your web sites and apps.

Specifically, you’ll learn how to integrate custom field data from MasterPress into the WordPress Loop and also create templates that use entirely different techniques to The Loop and the WordPress template tags, designed to make theme development easier than ever before.

Note: in many of these recipes, the copy will refer to methods but then show examples that appear to be property access, since they contain no trailing braces (). The MasterPress API allows you to drop the braces, which will route the property access to the actual method call with no arguments.

Pages in this section:

Integrating with The Loop, and the WOOF loop

Using MasterPress API code inside “The Loop”, and replacing the loop with alternative syntax.

Accessing the current post

How to access the current post (or page) being viewed in Single templates.

Accessing the current category, tag, or term

How to access the current category, tag, or taxonomy term being displayed in archive templates.

Accessing the current author or user

How to access the current post author being displayed in author archive templates, or the current logged in user.

Single Object Queries

How to lookup specific posts, terms, users, post types, taxonomies, and user roles.

Multiple Post Queries

How to run main loop and secondary queries with the MasterPress API.

Multiple Term Queries

How to query taxonomy terms in your WordPress site.

Multiple User Queries

How to retrieve multiple users of your WordPress site.

Multiple Post Types, Taxonomies, and Roles

How to retrieve collections of post types, taxonomies, and roles from your WordPress site.

Accessing Files and Images

How to access powerful objects representing images and files from your theme and content folders, attachments, and MasterPress image fields.

Working with Files

Outlines practical applications of WOOF_File (and WOOF_Image) objects.

Working with Images

Outlines the property methods, and powerful image processing and filter methods of the WOOF_Image class.

Working with Field Sets and Fields

How to access MasterPress custom field data within your templates, and some useful code patterns for working with them.

Related Object Fields

How to access objects setup in Related Post, Term, User, Post Type, Taxonomy, User Role, and Site fields.

Incoming Objects

How to access objects related to the current post, user, or taxonomy term being viewed.

Manipulating Posts and Terms

How to create or update posts and taxonomy terms via the MasterPress API.

Manipulating Field Sets and Field Data

How to create, edit, and remove MasterPress fields and field sets from posts, terms, and users.

Latest From the Blog

MasterPress 1.4.1 is now available

27th May 2024

This update addresses backwards compatibility issues that were introduced in the previous update. There were some edge cases where PHP 7 had issues and it didn’t work at all on PHP 5.6. We have now changed it so that the PHP 8 compatibility changes will now only affect PHP 8 and will be more thorough…

Plugin Requirements

MasterPress requires a minimum of WordPress version 4.9, MySQL 5.6, and PHP version 5.6.20.

We also recommend that PHP is configured to use a memory limit of 64MB per request (128MB may be required for sites with higher complexity).

This plug-in is not compatible with the WordPress.com hosted service.

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