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the_content v the_excerpt

If I have a group of posts, it is easier for a user to see what is available, and to choose what to read, if just an extract is shown, rather than, say, 10 posts, all listed one after another.  It seems that, for a Group page (a page which shows a group of posts), it...

Extracts or Whole Posts?

I want to explore whether to show whole posts or selected extracts of posts.  This applies to what I shall call a Group page – any page which shows a set of posts rather than a single post (Category pages or Archive pages or the Blog index page).  To explore...

Now We’re Rolling

Having dug into the documentation and solved some mysteries regarding the header of the Default theme and the version of code used in the Connections theme, I’ve made a lot of progress with that list of early first steps.   Here’s what I’ve now done:...

The Best Loop

Template themes which use the more recent format for the loop: if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()): the_post(); … endwhile; endif; are more flexible and allow for easier adaptation than older style templates, using: if ($posts): foreach ($posts as $post) :...

A Learning Leap

Well, since last writing, I’ve dug more deeply into the WordPress code and the documentation and I’ve learned a few things….. I’m using WordPress version 2.1 the Theme which first took my fancy, and which I’ve been learning with, uses the...