In a previous post, I looked at The Loop in WordPress and how it was possible to exclude specific categories from being displayed. I did that to exclude posts from my Web category as I wanted them handled differently.
This time around, I’m going to retrieve and display posts without going into The Loop. To do this, I’m going to create a secondary loop with the get_posts template tag.
At the simplest level, you could use this to create a sticky post (though as of version 2.7, WordPress does this without any additional coding). By playing around with this, you could create a multi-loop, multi-column theme that completely changes the way a blog looks.
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