Blade is the template engine for Laravel, a very popular php framework, developed by Taylor Otwell. This plugin brings the same template engine to wordpress. Using a template engine will result in much cleaner template files and quicker development. Normal php can still be used in the template files. The plugin also adds a wordpress specific snippet to blade. Check out the examples for more info. echo/print {{$foo}} Turns into… if() @if(has_post_thumbnail()) {{the_post_thumbnail() }} @else <img src="{{bloginfo( 'template_url' )}}/images/thumbnail-default.jpg" /> @endif Turns into… <img src="/images/thumbnail-default.jpg” /> the loop @wpposts <a href="{{the_permalink()}}">{{the_title()}}</a><br> @wpempty <p>404</p> @wpend Turns into… <a href="”> 404 wordpress query <ul> @wpquery(array('post_type' => 'post')) <li><a href="{{the_permalink()}}">{{the_title()}}</a></li> @wpempty <li>{{ __('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.') }}</li> @wpend </ul> Turns into…. ‘post’) ); ?> have_posts() ) : ?> have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?> <a href="”> Advanced Custom Fields <ul> @acfrepeater('images') <li>{{ get_sub_field( 'image' ) }}</li> @acfend </ul> Turns into… <img src="” /> Including other templates To include a file with blade use: @include(‘header’) Note that you should not type “.php”. Files included with functions, e.g. the_header(), will not be compiled by Blade, however the php code in the file is still executed. Layouts master.php: @yield(‘content’) page.php: @layout(‘master’) @section('content') <p>Lorem ipsum</p> @endsection See the Blade documentation for more info. Contribute on github: github.com/MikaelMattsson/blade