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Customizing Your Blog Posts with Template Tags

This section covers the template tags that you use to display the body of each blog post you publish. The body of a blog post includes information such as the post date and time, title, author name, category, and content. Table 3-4 lists the common template tags you can use for posts, available for you to use in any WordPress theme template. The tags in Table 3-4 work only if you place them within The Loop (covered earlier in this chapter and found in the loop.php template file).

Table 3-4 Template Tags for Blog Posts

Tag	Function
get_the_date();	Displays the date of the post.
get_the_time();	Displays the time of the post.
the_title();	Displays the title of the post.
the_permalink();	Displays the permalink (URL) of the post.
get_the_author();	Displays the post author' name.
the_author_link();	Displays the URL of the post author' site.
the_content(‘Read More...’);	Displays the content of the post. (If you use an excerpt [below], the words Read More appear and are linked to the individual post page.)
the_excerpt();	Displays an excerpt (snippet) of the post.
the_category();	Displays the category (or categories) assigned to the post. If the post is assigned to multiple categories, commas will separate them.
comments_popup_link (‘No Comments’, ‘Comment (1)’, ‘Comments(%)’);	Displays a link to the comments, along with the comment count for the post in parentheses. (If no comments exist, it displays a No Comments ...