kenbowen

Thanks! Hope you’re having a great day.

Not being argumentative, just confused. Here’s the select of what I see on the screen for WP_Query doc:

#Usage
#Standard Loop

<?php
 
// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
 
// The Loop
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo '<ul>';
    while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
        $the_query->the_post();
        echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
} else {
    // no posts found
}
/* Restore original Post Data */
wp_reset_postdata();

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I think it works because of the if { } else { } structure.
Cheers,
–Ken

Sadly, examining https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/classes/wp_query/ carefully, there is no ‘endif;’ to be found, because it is written in the ‘old’ PHP syntax: if { } else { }. I translated that to the “new” syntax following the model of Loop[2]. Notice that Loop[2] runs correctly, but does not contain the element ‘endif’. But clearly, I did something wrong: Copying the lines 6-18 from Standard Loop in Usage in https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/classes/wp_query/ gave me the behavior I desired — an unordered list of titles at the beginning.
Thanks!
Additionally, thanks for the backticks tip, and for fixing my original post.
Where on this page should I see the Code button? (I’m on FF right now, but can’t see it on Chrome either.)

Bad paste – will resubmit

Thanks bcworkz. It turned out that
include ‘../../../../wp-load.php’;
did the job.

I hadn’t searched far enough. The following helped me out:
https://kav.in/wordpress-dropdown-menu-wp-nav-menu-css/

It was 0.8.7. Yes, I’ve cleared the cache and things seem to be working ok. Thanks