Title: [resolved] Old Docs
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# [resolved] Old Docs

 *  [ygg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ygg/)
 * (@ygg)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-old-docs/)
 * Is there any way to get to the OLD developer documentation? I know it’s out of
   date, but the current documentation is so woefully incomplete ([Function Reference](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference)
   in particular is practically non-existent, plus the “Template Functions” link
   it offers constantly is a., a link to Edit said functions and b., the page contains
   no text) that – especially in combination with the utterly broken search function–
   the codex is nigh-useless.
 * ANY links to ANY more complete documentation would be really very much appreciated.
 * (specifically, I want much more in-depth information about The Loop and ways 
   in which to call have_posts/get_posts (or analogous function) without requiring
   a query string. For example, I want the home page to display the latest blog 
   entry belonging to one category in one column, and the latest blog entry belonging
   to a second category in a second column. Can’t find information as to how to 
   do this – it looks like get_posts should be able to do it but the link isn’t 
   there on the function reference and the bloody search gives me “We couldn’t find
   anything!”)
 * OH LOOK I found it myself with Google. I’m leaving the rest of this here because
   it might help others, I haven’t seen anything official about the horribly broken
   search, and also to link to the description of [get_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts).
 * As usual, TYIA 🙂
    ygg

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