Re:Bedrock: a modern WordPress stack
by smacktoward on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @05:28PM
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And in the WordPress core developers' defense, it has been getting steadily better as time goes on. It's still a long way from perfect, of course, but they're working on it.
things like this need to stop though:
<?php /* pointless comment */ ?>
<?php echo $something; ?><div><?php if($blah){ echo stuff(); ?></div><?php } ?>...
Unfortunately, this is precisely the only thing PHP was invented for. It is a templating engine planned to be used exactly how you quoted.
Everything else is just accidental complexity.
Upshot, though, there's plenty of documentation and SO threads out there and a huge ecosystem of plugins. Most of the time you never even need to look at the actual source code.