WordPress - 'The Loop' to show all posts, instead posts the title of the home page

Question

I just started with a wordpress tutorial series and one of the first things it does was make a simple "the loop", to print the title and description of all of the posts. When I did it though, it prints the name and description of the home page.

<?php 
if ( have_posts() ) 
 {
  while ( have_posts() ) 
    {
        the_post(); 
        the_title('<h2><a href="the_permalink();"','</a></h2>');   
        the_content(); 
        // Post Content here
        //
    } // end while
 } // end if
?>

I cannot figure out why it prints the home page information instead of post info.

Where did you placed that code? If you want to display all post title and content, you should consider the global variable $post. — heero
That was the entire index file. I was following a video tutorial and they were able to get it to work with just that. — better_mixmaster

Ahmed Ginani Ahmed Ginani · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-03T05:05:36

To display wordpress posts on any page , you need to pass the arguments as the following in the WP_Query and then loop them via object.

// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post','posts_per_page' => -1 ) );

// The Loop
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo '<ul>';
    while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
        $the_query->the_post();
        echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
    /* Restore original Post Data */
    wp_reset_postdata();
} else {
    // no posts found
}

WordPress - 'The Loop' to show all posts, instead posts the title of the home page

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