Gary’s talk
From the start, assumes that we all know what WP is, we know what php is, but are not necessarily happy coding. (He thought of doing the talk in lolcat but it got too difficult.)
The Loop is the core of WP. Php distributed across the system, along display of posts, comments and the display of your blog as a whole.
You don’t actually need to know how it works (sign of good software) - it just does.
One central control point with requests going through index.php.
Gary talks us through the loop: header, middle, footer.
Kathryn’s write up of this is way more detailed than mine…
“The Loop is breeding” - it is all through your blog (search, comments, etc).
