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September 15th, 2011
By Ronald Huereca
W h a t i s t h e Wo r d P r e s s L o o p ?
Most of you have seen this screen
Most of you HAVE NOT seen this one
When you publish a post...
Your post gets saved in a “posts” database table
Your post can have
Post Meta (custom fields)
Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, Post Format)
Attachments (Featured images, galleries)
And lots more!
WordPress and your theme automatically turns this...
...into a post your users can see on a web site
How do you go from this...
...to this?
With a Query
Queries decide...
Which items to display
Under which category
And sorted in a particular order
And any other conditions you can think of
An example query...Grab the Post by ID 2338 Grab the post by post_status draft
Grab posts by the Post’s author Sort by Date Published
Once you have the results of the Query, you can display them
Here is a query result displayed
The results from a query are outputted in the form of a Loop
This post is one iteration of a WordPress Loop
Let’s look what makes up a Loop Item in WordPress...
The Loop DissectedDate Published Post Author
Post Title
Post Content
So how do you create your own Loop (cough, the hard way)?
Create your own Query - http://codex.wordpress.org/
Template_Tags/get_posts
Create a page template in your theme - http://
codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
Assign that page template to a page in WordPress
Anything more complicated, you may want to create your own
child theme
Or you can use LoopBuddy and Builder (the easy way)
Create unlimited queries and Loop layouts
Override any section
The front page
The archive pages
An individual post or page
Search results
Create a new section
A “blog” archive
A custom 404 page
A sitemap
No Coding or Theme modifications Required
With LoopBuddy, you control the Loop
Try Out LoopBuddy and Be Blown Away at the Possibilities
Try it at: http://trials.ithemes.com/config/loopbuddy
Buy it at: http://pluginbuddy.com/purchase/loopbuddy