Summary: A WordPress Loop, or “The Loop,” as many call it, is a function in WordPress that is used to display each of your posts. Usually, the number of posts to be displayed is set in your WordPress Admin Panel Settings area under the “Reading” tab. However, what can you do to override the default WordPress Loop?How to Use the LoopWhen using the Loop, it should be placed in your Theme’s index.php, as well as placed in any other templates used to display your website post information.In this article, I will show you several examples of how to use The Loop and override it to display posts in several different ways. Simply follow the code examples below to get the WordPress Loop override structure that you prefer.You will need to access the functions.php file that is located in the WordPress admin dashboard if you want to add any of the code below. Scroll down to the bottom of this tutorial for instructions on how to access that file.Once you have the file open and ready, then start adding the demo code functions displayed below.You can also display custom fields from a specific post outside the WordPress Loop if you want.Display Any Number of PostsThe loop example will display any number of posts within that specific WordPress Loop. Open any template file where you would like to place the posts and add the following loop:[ht_message mstyle=”info” title=”” show_icon=”” id=”” class=”” style=”” ]// if everything is in place and ready, let’s start the loop// to display ‘n’ number of posts, we need to execute the loop ‘n’ number of times// so we define a numerical variable called ‘$count’ and set its value to zero// with each iteration of the loop, the value of ‘$count’ will increase by one// after the value of ‘$count’ reaches the specified number, the loop will stop// *USER: change the ‘n’ to the number of posts that you would like to display// for CSS styling and layout purposes, we wrap the post content in a div// we then display the entire post content via the ‘the_content()’ function// *USER: change to ‘’ to display post excerpts instead// here, we continue with the limiting of the number of displayed posts// each iteration of the loop increases the value of ‘$count’ by one// the final two lines complete the loop and close the if statement[/ht_message]Exclude Posts From Some CategoryThis loop example demonstrates how to hide a specific Category or Categories from being displayed: [ht_messag... You are listening to the topic about "How To Override the Default WordPress Loop", if you want to read the full article, please visit https://geniuswp.com or the link in the description.
