If you are trying to tweak or develop a WordPress theme then this post should help making your life a bit easier. This post has a list of all the WordPress functions that you can use from your theme’s template file.

Useful PHP Code for Header

<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>	Title of the site
<?php wp_title(); ?>	Title of the post or page
<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>	The style.css file’s location
<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>	Pingback URL for the site
<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>	Location for the site’s theme files
<?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>	WordPress version for the site
<?php bloginfo(‘atom_url’); ?>	Atom URL for the site
<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>	RSS2 URL for the site
<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>	Exact URL for the site
<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>	Name of the site
<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>	HTML version of the site
<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>	Charset parameter of the site
<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>	Site’s description

Useful PHP Code for the Body

<?php the_content(); ?>	Content of the posts or page
<?php if(have_posts()) : ?>	Checks if there are posts
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>	Shows posts if posts are available
<?php endwhile; ?>	Closes the ‘while’ PHP function
<?php endif; ?>	Closes the ‘if’ PHP function
<?php get_header(); ?>	Header.php file’s content
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>	Sidebar.php file’s content
<?php get_footer(); ?>	Footer.php file’s content
<?php the_time(‘m-d-y’) ?>	The date in ’08-18-10′ format
<?php comments_popup_link(); ?>	Link for the comments on the post
<?php the_title(); ?>	Title of a specic post or page
<?php the_permalink() ?>	Url of a specic post or page
<?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?>	Category of a specic post or page
<?php the_author(); ?>	Author of a specic post or page
<?php the_ID(); ?>	ID of a specic post or page
<?php edit_post_link(); ?>	Link to edit a specic post or page
<?php get_links_list(); ?>	Links from the blogroll
<?php comments_template(); ?>	Comment.php file’s content
<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>	List of pages of the
<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>	List of categories for the site
<?php next_post_link(‘ %link ‘) ?>	Url to the next post
<?php previous_post_link(‘%link’) ?>	Url to the previous post
<?php get_calendar(); ?>	The built-in calendar
<?php wp_get_archives() ?>	List of archives for the site
<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>	Next and previous post link
<?php wp_loginout(); ?>	Displays the login/logout link
<!–more–>	Cuts off the content and adds a link to the rest of the content
<?php wp_meta(); ?>	Meta for administrators

Other Useful PHP Functions

<?php timer_stop(1); ?>	Time to load the page
<?php echo get_num_queries(); ?>	Queries to load the page

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