When I added the drawbacks to the Codex, I was mainly thinking of using the ‘request’ filter as an alternative to query_posts(). That filter is only run for the main query, so that solves the problem with ‘pre_get_posts’, which fires for every query. The downside is that you don’t have access to query flags like … Read more
here if you use custom template past this in the begining <?php if( ‘POST’ == $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] ) { if ( $_FILES ) { $files = $_FILES[“my_file_upload”]; foreach ($files[‘name’] as $key => $value) { if ($files[‘name’][$key]) { $file = array( ‘name’ => $files[‘name’][$key], ‘type’ => $files[‘type’][$key], ‘tmp_name’ => $files[‘tmp_name’][$key], ‘error’ => $files[‘error’][$key], ‘size’ => $files[‘size’][$key] ); … Read more
In my opinion, deprecating numberposts would not make sense, as numberposts is used to query x amount of posts, whilst posts_per_page is used to denote how many posts per page are being shown during pagination. If you were to deprecate numberposts in favor of simply posts_per_page, then pagination would not exist. ie: “numberposts” => 50, … Read more
There is this rather in-depth explanation found at, Part 1 http://theme.fm/2011/09/wordpress-internals-how-wordpress-boots-up-2315/ Part 2 http://theme.fm/2011/09/wordpress-internals-how-wordpress-boots-up-part-2-2437/ Which also includes some diagrams/flowcharts. and… This is also just the start of understanding the WordPress initialization process to which also should include information about the template hierarchy, as well as inspecting which hooks are fired on which pages and when. … Read more