Loop Through All Posts In single.php Or Other Page – WordPress

June 30, 2023 by Andreas Wik

Loop through all posts in single.php

Looping through your posts in index.php is fairly straightforward. You may have something like this set up:

<?php
if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();
?>

    <div class="post">
        <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
        <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
    </div>

<?php
endwhile;
endif;
?>

 

You may think that in single.php you should be able to do the same. Certainly looks like it. However, since single.php is designed to show a single post, that’s all you’ll get using the same loop – the current post.

In order to loop through all posts, you can make use of WP_Query, passing it a few arguments. In the example below we ask to retrieve only posts with the post type ‘posts’: ‘post_type’ => ‘post’. We also ask to get all posts with ‘posts_per_page’ => -1.

Then we can simply loop through them, printing out the title, content and/or whatever else you want to show, perhaps just the excerpt and the featured image.

<?php
$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
);

$posts_query = new WP_Query($args);

if ($posts_query->have_posts()) {
  while ($posts_query->have_posts()) {
    $posts_query->the_post();
?>
    <!-- Show post -->
    <div class="post">
        <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
        <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
    </div>

<?php
  }
}

wp_reset_postdata();
?>

 

Hope it helps!

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