What is the difference between a php include and the wordpress get_template_part other then you have a fallback option on the latter? Can I as well use a php include instead?
I was also wondering about this recently and the article that I found very useful was this:
How to Include and Require Files and Templates in WordPress
The author of the article follows these guidelines:
- In theme development, I always use get_template_part().
- In plugin development, I almost always use include_once() and I generally use it once in a function. You can see this in my boilerplates.
- If the plugin I'm writing is going to be used on a very large site, then I use require_once().
UPDATE
According toanother article , using get_template_part() is especially useful when trying to build a child theme, but I guess you already know that:).
Maybe the best way to know the difference is to check the source code of get_template_part()
get_template_part also allows child themes
to override that file and include additional more specific files.
For example, if you used get_template_part( 'loop', 'single' )
and your theme only has a file named loop.php then a child theme
could include a file named loop-single.php that would override your loop.php.
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