[wp-docs] Documenting WPs Other Functions

[Joey B]

If I recall correctly, Firas and his gang are working on or had the
idea of creating a big WP php dictionary. You may want to ask them how
that's going, unless them saying something about it was just my
imagination...

On 9/23/05, tg at tannagh.com <tg at tannagh.com> wrote:
>
> Has any thought been given to documenting some of the other functions of
> WP? The Template Tags are pretty well documented, as is a couple of the
> non-template tags, such as those that support "the loop".
> http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
>
> But there are others available out there. Like the ones to get comments.
> I'm asking because I came across comment_excerpt() and thought about
> using it in my new template. But the most I could get out of the
> documentation was this: "This tag must be within The Loop, or a comment
> loop." Okay, so how do I make a comment loop? Ultimately I looked at my
> comments.php file to see how it's made. In there I see this code: <?php
> if ( comments_open() ) : ?> Is this what gets the comments? Or are they
> automaticaly retireved when the post is gotten? - as I write this, I
> realize that's a conditional tag.
>
> I'm now realizing some of what I wrote is moot, I just need to look in
> the right place. But that does bring up something I noticed. include
> tags and conditional tags are not on the front page, but template tags
> are. Yes, I know you can get to the others from the template tage page,
> but I wonder if they should also be on the front page. If some one is
> looking specificaly for a cond tag, they may not think to look on the
> template tags page first to get to the link (I didn't).
>
> -tg
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