If you’re working with WordPress, here’s a neat snippet I’ve picked up recently. It allows you to call a template file anywhere in the content body using a shortcode.
You might have a panel with specific functionality or a loop within it, so to be able to drop it in anywhere is pretty handy!
<?
// include template using WP shortcode
function my_shortcode_include() {
ob_start();
// include your template e.g. /inc/random-panel.php
get_template_part('inc/random-panel');
$output_string = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $output_string;
}
add_shortcode('panel', 'my_shortcode_include');
?>
Here we are including the template random-panel.php using the shortcode [panel].
I tend to keep all my includes / template chunks in a folder called /inc in my WordPress theme. The file location therefore is /inc/random-panel.php.
The lines prefixes with ob_ sanitise the content so you shouldn’t get any rogue <p> or <br /> elements.