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Asked: 2026-06-03T14:33:53+00:00

I’ve been thinking of creating my own custom query to get data using $wpdb

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I’ve been thinking of creating my own custom query to get data using $wpdb. But there are just some things I don’t quite understand:

  1. When the results come in, how will it know which template file to use to display those results?
  2. What do I type in the link’s href attribute which will activate the query?
  3. Should there be many results, will pagination be enabled like a normal loop?
  4. Do I put my query in a file (in #1) or in functions.php?
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to create new custom loop, you can create new template for it. In this case pagination, loop work normally. You just place custom wp_query above loop. And in href you must write url of page which built on new custom template. For understanding all this process step by step i suggest you to read my article in wptuts. It is called “Creating a Custom ‘The Posts I Commented On’ Loop” and it is the guide what you need.

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