WP_Query Archives - Tom J Nowell

Use of mysql_connect in WordPress

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Tom J Nowell

WP_Query::get_posts()

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Tom J Nowell

Every call to retrieve posts goes through WP_Query, and the bulk of the logic is in the method get_posts. Here’s some potentially useful information about the current state of what is arguably the most important function in WordPress. WP_Query::get_posts is 890 lines long, and has a cyclomatic complexity of 256. A good cyclomatic complexity is ~2-6, […]

Alternative Post Loops

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Tom J Nowell

We all know the standard post loop in every template, but what if we did something slightly different? Lets begin with the standard main loop we all know: View the code on Gist. There’s a lot of boilerplate there, what if we could reduce it down? Lets try using a feature of PHP 5 called […]

Getting From URL to Template

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Tom J Nowell

So you load a page on a WordPress site. How did it know to load the page template? How did it know it was a page and not a category listing? Is it hardcoded somewhere? To begin with lets list out what happens, then we’ll explain each step in basic terms: .htaccess rules pass the URL […]

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Use of mysql_connect in WordPress

WP_Query::get_posts()

Alternative Post Loops

Getting From URL to Template

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