Comments on: WordPress: displaying content outside the Loop http://www.jek2k.com/wp/2006/10/30/wordpress-displaying-content-outside-the-loop/ still awake at night? Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:58:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nicolò http://www.jek2k.com/wp/2006/10/30/wordpress-displaying-content-outside-the-loop/comment-page-1/#comment-23934 Nicolò Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:29:24 +0000 http://www.jek2k.com/wp/index.php/2006/10/30/wordpress-displaying-content-outside-the-loop/#comment-23934 I wrote this article 3 years ago. As of today, there's a new function called <strong>get_posts()</strong> which does the job very well. You can find more info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts I wrote this article 3 years ago. As of today, there’s a new function called get_posts() which does the job very well.
You can find more info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

]]> By: StrangeAttractor http://www.jek2k.com/wp/2006/10/30/wordpress-displaying-content-outside-the-loop/comment-page-1/#comment-23923 StrangeAttractor Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:06:39 +0000 http://www.jek2k.com/wp/index.php/2006/10/30/wordpress-displaying-content-outside-the-loop/#comment-23923 This is quite helpful -- so the idea is to do this instead of a straight query_posts so that you don't reset the loop, right? Because if I create a special loop using query_posts on a page, for example, and then later on the same page want to run a condition -- e.g., if (page_is('my-page') ) -- WordPress will no longer know what page I'm on because the loop has been reset by query_posts. But if I've understood you right here, using the WP_query class will avoid this problem, because you can just search within the object of the class? This is quite helpful — so the idea is to do this instead of a straight query_posts so that you don’t reset the loop, right?

Because if I create a special loop using query_posts on a page, for example, and then later on the same page want to run a condition — e.g., if (page_is(’my-page’) ) — WordPress will no longer know what page I’m on because the loop has been reset by query_posts. But if I’ve understood you right here, using the WP_query class will avoid this problem, because you can just search within the object of the class?

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