Am I missing something

  • I looked through the WordPress Codex but can’t find any mention of these tags

    query_posts (ie. showposts=10, category_name=special_category, etc.)

    or

    if variables (ie. is_category, is_day, is_author, etc.)

    Where can I find information regarding these tags?

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  • https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop

    Might help you get started. Do a search for “WordPress query_posts” for more help.

    As far as I can tell, there are holes in the documentation.

    query_posts is a good example of one. Another example: the_post(). The pages that are there are nice, but there is an entire layer that seems to be missing.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    The documentation is a community effort. Feel free to contribute.

    If there are still gaps once I understand WordPress a little better then I probably will contribute as best I can.

    I probably sounded judgemental about documentation shortcomings … I really just meant it as a statement of fact. The question titling this thread is “Am I missing something?”. Truth is, some things are missing from the documentation at this time and date. I spent a lot of time with fruitless searches coming to that conclusion, I’m just hoping to save someone else some time so they can investigate getting help from other avenues.

    As the documentation continues to develop, hopefully that point will become invalid.

    The Codex is “new” and still a huge work in progress, or should I say “process”. Have you also searched the older WordPress Wiki to see if there is some help there, or through the documentation provided by https://www.ads-software.com/docs/ ?

    If you find a hole, then the team needs to know about it so someone can fill it. If it ain’t reported, it’s just a pothole in the road of WordPress.

    Remember also, this is Open Source and Free and run by a whole lot of volunteers. It is also version 1.5 and not version 85.3, so “new” is our first name.

    I’d also reinforce the issue of *new*. Something like the is_* conditional tags only came into existence with 1.5. A large part of the job for a documentation team on an open source project is playing catchup.

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