Question

Can someone give me an essential WordPress Loop and explain to me what’s happening with it? I’d like to put together some templates, but I don’t do well with blackboxing. In other words, I’m fully capable of writing my own CMS, but when it comes to using someone else’s and its arbitrary rules, I’m completely at a loss, and I just can’t get my head around the standard loop WordPress uses. Thanks for your patient guidance.

Answer 1

There is a really nice tutorial from SpoonGraphics describing how to build your own theme for wordpress and explaining the required coding. It also covers the standard wordpress loop and explains how to build around it:

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-build-a-custom-wordpress-theme-from-scratch