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I am trying to create single page theme.

What i have trouble with is understanding this whole wordpress query logic.

There is query object and supposedly i get all published posts like this:

$query = new WP_Query( array ( 
    'orderby' => 'menu_order', 
    'order' => 'ASC', 
    'post_type' => array( 'page' ), 
    'post_status' => array( 'publish' ) ) );

and can loop over them like this :

while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
    $query->the_post();
    echo '<li>' . the_title() . '</li>';
}

But then what? I cant even figure out that codex – where are all the functions of post object that i can use? Like the_title()? Where is that in codex?

What i want to achieve seemed pretty simple and straightforward – load all pages with nested subpages and then just print them out on single page similar to the loop above… But this codex is driving me crazy 😛

But is this even best approach? Should i be defining my query somewhere else (as opposed to index.php like im doing now)? Should i be somehow using wordpress original page loading which displays pages using their templates (if they have one) or using something similar to content-page.php like the one that default themes have?

Alan

3 Answers
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WordPress queries are indeed represented by WP_Query objects. The snippet example you have is secondary query, as opposed to main query – which is run by WP itself during core load and stored in global $wp_query variable.

Typically it is better (for performance and compatibility) to modify main query for set of posts that is main to page – see pre_get_posts hook documentation.

When you are running query loop, what happens is that WP fills number of global variables (main being $post) with data for current post. Functions that access those variables and output information (such as the_title()) are called template Tags and Codex has list of them that should get you started.

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