Gary Barber is the Man with no blog and his slides are on slideshare, Doin’ da Loop with da WordPrez
- He promised not to be too technical
- Was going to do it all in lolcat speak
- Presuming know plugins, widgets, can alter source code of WP blog, know what php is, not happy coding, not pulled template apart
- What is the loop
- Core of WordPress
- PHP code distributed thoughout the system
- Lets you display comments, posts, rest of blog
- Loop is the single central control point
- index.php
- remove index.php – goes back to default theme. Remove default theme after that, then deadibones.
How does the Loop works:
- in index.php – middle bit btw header and end
- 1. If have posts
- 2. Gets the posts plus post meta data
- 3. Gets it in the right format
- 4. Does it over and over.
Looking at default template
- If want to make changes to happen after every post – then put it just after the <div> and before the <endwhile>
- Look at where you add title and permalink
Then in template div class align..
- The loop is all through wordpress
- Archive, comments
- What can you do with the loop?
- Customise the loop -display excerpt only
- Customise CSS for different dates, times, catergories, authors, days of the week (Eg. Things written Tuesday have a blue background)
- Change home page to static one
- Can place items between blog posts – put it before the end while
Before start hacking the code
- Backup
- Check to see whether there is a plugin or widget that does the same thing