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Querying Posts Without query_posts

Posted on Monday May 14th 2012Tuesday March 26th 2013 by JJJ

Here at WordPress.com, we have over 200 themes (and even more plugins) running inside the biggest WordPress installation around (that we know of anyway!) With all of that code churning around our over 2,000 servers worldwide, there’s one particular WordPress function that we actually try to shy away from; query_posts() If you think you need ... Read More.

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