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MTV is a plugin for WordPress that provides a new API for developing plugins and themes. Born out of frustration with the undocumented, inconsistent WordPress API, MTV provides a simple, familiar, consistent way to develop heavily customized WordPress sites.

MTV borrows a lot from existing MVC-style frameworks, namely Django and Backbone.js. If you're familiar with those frameworks, you should feel at home using MTV. If you're not familiar, go try some tutorials. It'll make you a better programmer.

This plugin hijacks and takes over how WordPress handles URLs and templates, and gives you new ORM-style tools for handling posts, users and blogs. This plugin does nothing by itself, and (hopefully) will not break stuff that you already have. It's just a set of tools for developers to use.

Getting started

• Bare MTV
• My first theme

The model layer

• Basics of Model, ModelCollection
  • syntax
• WordPress Models and ModelCollections

The view layer

• urls.php
• Including urls from other places
• Writing a view

The template layer

• Available wp template functions
• How to add a template functions, tags, filters
• Deep links to twig

AJAX

• Setting up ajax urls
• Writing an ajax view
  • Calling ajax