Taco

Step 1

Load via Composer

Taco is easiest to load via Composer. Just add the Taco entry to your composer.json file, then include the Composer autoloader in your wp-config.php and initialize Taco in functions.php.

You should have the composer.json file one directory above your WordPress directory.

composer.json

{
  "require": {
    "tacowordpress/tacowordpress": "dev-master"
  }
}

wordpress/wp-config.php

// Composer autoloader
// Add to the top of wp-config.php
require_once realpath(__DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php');

wordpress/wp-content/your-theme/functions.php

// Initialize Taco
\Taco\Loader::init();

Step 2

Create your plugin

Each custom post type created with Taco should be it’s own plugin.

After activating your plugin in the WordPress admin interface, Taco will automatically register your post type and make it part of your admin interface.

Use the WordPress admin interface to add a test record for person with your first and last name.

wordpress/wp-content/plugins/taco_person/taco_person.php

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name: taco_person
 */
class Person extends \Taco\Post
{
  public function getFields()
  {
    return array(
      'first_name'=>array('type'=>'text'),
      'last_name'=>array('type'=>'text'),
    );
  }
}

Step 3

Build your template

WordPress automatically pulls a Post object into your templates, which you can pass into Taco, providing you access to all of the metadata stored by Taco.

wordpress/wp-content/themes/your-theme/single-person.php

<?php
$person = Person::find($post->ID);
echo sprintf(
  'My name is %s %s',
  $person->first_name,
  $person->last_name
);