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WordPress PHP for WordPress PHP Basics for WordPress Custom Loops

Posted by Coen van Campenhout
Coen van Campenhout
5,034 Points

I'm trying to get a list of blogs with every blog containing a link to the blog. I just can't get it working any help?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Christian Moran
Christian Moran
6,514 Points
Christian Moran
Christian Moran
6,514 Points

Do you have an example of what you have so far?

Chris Ellinger
Chris Ellinger
26,494 Points
Chris Ellinger
Chris Ellinger
26,494 Points

I think what you were trying to ask is how to add links to your list items being outputted by the loop. You would want to wrap your echo statement (echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';) inside the while loop with your anchor tag. The code loop would then look like the code below. Hope this helps.

<?php
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'post'
        );
        // 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 '<a href=' . get_permalink() . '>' . '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>' . '</a>';
            }
            echo '</ul>';
        } else {
            // no posts found
        }
        /* Restore original Post Data */
        wp_reset_postdata(); ```