The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. It’s the most important set of PHP codes. Basically, it’s what displays the content you see on your homepage, your single posts, pages, archives, search results, etc. Any HTML or PHP code placed in the Loop will be repeated on each post. The Loop should be placed inside index.php and in any other Templates used to display post information.

Some time ago I decided to give WordPress a try and convert some of my XHTML codes to WordPress. I looked for tutorials on this topic and find a lot of them and the WordPress website has lessons too. But can those tutorials and lessons be really helpful to you if you don’t know PHP and don’t understand the terminology used in them? I was a little bit confused by the huge amount of information at the beginning. So let’s keep it simple at least for now.

We’ve seen all A-list bloggers using Aweber for creating the mailing lists and that they are using the javascript pop-up boxes to display the signup information button for the first time visitor, so as to increase the signup rate. However, there are few who don’t like that at all. Anyway, I also want to increase the signup for my newsletter (not aweber one, I use the feedburner’s default service) and was thinking of a non-obtrusive way of displaying the signup box and here’s what I did!