Comments on: Coding the WordPress Loop

By: Loren Helgeson

Loren Helgeson — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:19:52 +0000

Wow! Back to basics, indeed. I’ve used most the standard loop a lot in my three years of working with Wordpress. Recently, I’ve been trying to breakdown the loop one item at a time, since I do a lot of custom themes and I’m always trying to make each new theme better than the last.

I was never got a proper indoctrination into the importance of a clean loop. So, thank you for laying this out in as complete a detail as you have.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:19:52 +0000

Thanks! You really simplified the Codex.

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By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:41:11 +0000

Hey, thanks for the tutorial, its done me wonders so far, I was wondering however if its possible to control an image within the entry content as well as the writing .. Im trying to position my post images to the left of the text, but for some reason I can’t seem to get it to work ? Any ideas anyone ?? Thanks very much !!

By: FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:28:15 +0000

Hi, its a good post, maybe you could also make a tutorial about using the loop twice on a page, what to avoid and the proper way of doing it?

By: Designing a Wordpress Theme

Designing a Wordpress Theme — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:57:37 +0000

[...] until you understand the loop, any theme you design will just look like everyone else’s. A great article on this can be found on Justin Tadlock’s blog. I found that a lot of themes just throw the loop [...]

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:12:52 +0000

Thanks much Justin. On my main / home page, I have a pic and excerpt of the most recent post. I want to add a previous / next link and when user clicks just display the excerpt and picture of the previous / next post. Any tips on how to accomplish this. This is what I have in my loop currently:


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By: Lu

Lu — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:22:49 +0000

Hi Justin. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’ve hunted high and low for a simple tutorial that explains to me what The Loop is all about, what each bit is for, why it’s necessary and where it goes. You words are simple and concise. You can’t imagine how useful it has been!

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:06:04 +0000

Hi Justin Thanks for your good explanation of the basic WP loop. I am presently struggling trying to find how to add 'Permalink' link at the end of WP3 loop in my theme anIMass! It is somewhere in here! But what & where & I have spent a lot of today trying to get it working?!

Oh the joy & pain of jolly old WordPress!

By: stephen

stephen — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:27:05 +0000

This article helped me understand how to use the loop in a nice, clean fashion. I hate sloppy code and trying to learn from themes wasn’t getting me anywhere. Thanks so much!