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WordPress

Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
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Posted by Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

Is there another way of counting how many itterations have been completed in the WordPress loop?

I'm curious. There are a few PHP practices (adding get variables, enqueing styles and scritps) that WordPress has it own functinos that should be used to keep the site as manageable and dynamic as possible.

So, my question is:

  • Apart from a $count variable to be incremented in the loop, does WP have its own variable to count how many itterations of a loop have been completed?

I am happy to accept 'No' as an answer :)

1 Answer

Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Try this inside your loop:

// Echo the current index position of the loop (0,1,2,3..etc)
echo $wp_query->current_post;

You may have to change $wp_query to match whatever the correct object name is to match your code.

Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points
Liam Maclachlan
Liam Maclachlan
22,805 Points

Brilliant. Thanks man. I thought there may be something like this :)