Lyza Loop

Lyza Loop is a WordPress plugin for theme developers and template-savvy folks that aims to:

• Dramatically shorten the time required to code custom loops
• Modularize custom loop markup using what I hope is a straightforward templating process
• Provide convenient batching variables
• Respect the context in which the custom loop is called and put everything back the way it was (e.g. global $wp_query and $post objects)
• Reduce tedious and duplicated code for custom loops

There are two parts to the lyza_loop() function:

1. Finding posts (or pages): extending query_posts() — lyza_loop() takes any argument WordPress’ own query_posts() takes
2. Rendering relevant posts or pages: using “loop templates.” A loop template is a PHP file with markup (and logic) you’d like to use for each post/page in the loop.

Read more on the plugin home page

Please see the Lyza Loop FAQ page!

0.3

• Added configuration option for suppressing sticky posts.
• Added code to set $wp_query->in_the_loop to true during lyza_loop() processing.

0.2

• Fixed a couple of typos in the constructor function.
• Fixed bug in which post__not_in argument could get ignored if exclude_repeats is set to true (or the plugin is configured to exclude repeats by default).
• Updated to handle sticky tags appropriately (i.e. not return them at the top of every query).

0.1

• Initial release.

Please note: This plugin requires PHP 5–it uses some of PHP’s better object-oriented programming support introduced in PHP 5. If there is great hue and cry, I might consider making it PHP 4 compatible.

1. Unzip, then upload the lyza-loop directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Update defaults on the Settings -> Lyza Loop screen, if desired.
4. See Lyza Loop documentation to get started quickly!