Week 9

This week I spent a lot of time doing research and finalizing the standards that I would like to use when developing in WordPress.  One of the reasons that so many people use WordPress is that it’s very simple to use.  You add information into html forms on the admin side, and content displays on the user side in the form of a webpage.   Instead of choosing a pre-built template, I decided to make my own.  

WordPress gives you multiple ways to display information stored in the database.  They have a variety of built-in functions that display post information.  There are actually four different ways to loop through post content, all which have the same result but are implemented differently.

For my template I chose to loop through the posts by using the get_posts() method.  To do this you define an argument array that describes the type, number, and category of information that you would like to display.  This returns a post object, which you then loop through to output information. 

Here is a description of the different kinds of way to loop through WordPress data:

http://digwp.com/2011/05/loops/