WordPress Loop

“The Loop“ is the main process of WordPress. You use The Loop in your template files to show posts to visitors. You could make templates without The Loop, but you could only display data from one post.

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The World’s Simplest Index Page
• 3 The Default Loop
  • 3.1 Begin The Loop
  • 3.2 Generating the Post
    • 3.2.1 Title, Date and Author
    • 3.2.2 Post Content
    • 3.2.3 Additional Details
    • 3.2.4 Trackback Auto-Discovery
  • 3.3 Ending The Loop
• 4 The Loop In Other Templates
  • 4.1 Different Archive Format
  • 4.2 Different Category Format
  • 4.3 Different Formats for Different Categories
  • 4.4 Different CSS For Different Categories
  • 4.5 Different Single Post Format
• 5 Other Loop Tricks
  • 5.1 Static Front Page
  • 5.2 Excerpts Only
  • 5.3 Showing Excerpts or Full Post Depending Upon Number of Posts
  • 5.4 Different Headers/Sidebars/Footers
• 6 Summary