Last night, I spoke at the Boston WordPress meetup about the WP_Query class. Below is the description from my talk, a link to the original HTML slides, as well as a link to the slides on SlideShare. As soon as video is available, I’ll post a link to that as well.
At the heart of WordPress is the WP_Query class, used to retrieve practically all content from the database and prepare it for display. In this presentation, I’ll discuss the myriad arguments available with WP_Query, the various properties and methods that are automatically populated, and the advanced queries made possible through filters within the class. I’ll also review the pre_get_posts action, detail how it can be used to modify standard WordPress queries and completely eliminate query_posts(), and explain why you’d want to do so in the first place.
My source slides are available at http://slides.ethitter.com/bostonwp-wp-query-2012-01-30/. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys to navigate between slides.
The slides are also available on SlideShare and are embedded below.