Understanding WordPress Queries

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What is the new page you are requesting?

What is a WordPress "query?"

This page helps to establish a general information about how WordPress pulls information from a database, and how you will work with this data while managing your website. It also links to advanced usage and knowledge-base information about relevant topics to querying in WordPress.

Why is the page important?

As the Editor evolves, it will be important for users to understand how it is retrieving information for there to be a better experience. Providing access to how things work may help relieve confusion as to why information is not correctly being displayed. Having knowledge of how queries work in WordPress is a tremendous asset to any web publisher!

How will this new page help you?

• helpful for new users who want to know how WP works under the hood
• important resource for new developers and veterans alike (query vars, etc)
• Existing page(s) need to be ported from Codex (on todo list already?)
• explains query parameters
• explains how to use query args
• usage with the REST API
• Query Block shortcode info
• Using the Query Block
• Using the Post Content Block
• The Advanced Query Block
• Querying in PHP
• Querying in JavaScript
• Understanding datastore access
• ...

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Heads up @WordPress/docs-issues-coordinators, we have a new issue open. Time to use 'em labels.