Title: Missing Codex Functions
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Missing Codex Functions

 *  [TeckniX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecknix/)
 * (@tecknix)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-codex-functions/)
 * I’m simply baffled as to why this is, and can’t figure out where the path is 
   wrong.
 * There are quite a few ‘hidden’ functions that are simply not listed in the function_reference.
   Although it’s usually not an issue to have bad documentation, for a function 
   reference index it really kills the application.
    Here’s a quick example: – You
   are trying to obtain the list of all comments for a specific post – Looking at:
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference)
   you don’t see anything about the list of comments. – Naturally you go about getting
   the comments through something like get_comments and go through the pain of formatting
   your comments
 * Little did you know this function list is INCOMPLETE!
 * If you look through some other themes (hmm TwentyTen) you’ll notice the use the
   following function:
    – wp_list_commetns() Which returns exactly what you needed.
   How can this be? How could I have wasted time? It’s not in the above function
   reference – Must be a one-off functions.php. Nope.. then you search the codex
   and you find the following: – wp_list_comments: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments)
 * Wait, so the function is a built-in wordpress function, correctly in the right
   path according to the URL.
    Going back and forth through the pages there is absolutely
   ZERO reference to that function.
 * So my question is – What the hell?? How can you simply decide not to index certain
   functions on the index, yet have full documentation of it hidden away.
 * Thank you for the (partially) useless codex documentation.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-codex-functions/#post-2109597)
 * The Codex is currently being re-organised but this is a community project. Please
   free free to join in and help out.
 *  Thread Starter [TeckniX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecknix/)
 * (@tecknix)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-codex-functions/#post-2109656)
 * Esmi, I understand that this is a community project, but I don’t even see any
   information about adding information to the doc besides the comments.
    It’s not
   so much the fact that this is a cryptic function that wasn’t documented within
   the index, but rather something that’s being used by the default theme shipped
   with wordpress and yet it’s missing from the index.
 * Sort of makes you think what else was missed?
 *  Thread Starter [TeckniX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tecknix/)
 * (@tecknix)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-codex-functions/#post-2109657)
 * meh – disregard the unable to edit…
 * My codex login now works.

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