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Creating a Page Loop with a Custom Select Query

Posted On: October 15, 2008
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I hit a roadblock today in one of my projects, it requires a page template that would display a list of pages. Listing posts based on a category is basic with query_posts but I needed to do the same thing for pages. I ended up posting a tweet and Dean responded shortly after with a link to the WordPress codex explaining the custom select query (I love the -web-).

After reading though the doc I was able to create this:

<?php
$querystr = ”
    SELECT wposts.*
    FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta
    WHERE wposts.ID…

Webkit - Inspector

Posted On: August 31, 2006
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Thanks to BB for pointing out webkit’s inspector feature. The feature is awesome, way better then web dev tools for firefox. Maybe Shiira will have the inspector soon (if not already) and I’ll start using that browser instead of good ol’ FF, I’ll at least use Shiira or Safari for web dev since the inspector has already helped me so much.

After installing webkit I had to try it out to find out why I had that gap at the top of my page.…