“The Loop” lies to us all, don’t let it trick you. An intervention with the loop is past due. Lets walk through mastering its evil ways together. What is the best way to loop? Should you use get_posts, WP_Query or query_posts? Why does pagination break? How do you loop at all and what is the loop? How can you optimize the loop and decrease load time? Get the most out of the loop! In this talk we will master the backbone of WordPress. Together and answer these important and overlooked questions in turn.

This Talk Is For: Developers

What The Audience Will Learn: Learn how to use WP_Query and why it is superior to get_posts. Learn why query_posts seems like the devil. Learn some advance query filtering and sorting. Learn how to do pagination right. Learn how to get custom data out of your post types and use that data to build some gravy loops. Learn all this is 30 minutes you say? Oh yeas you can!