Title: Why we need a loop inside page.php template?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Why we need a loop inside page.php template?

 *  [mariusbratu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariusbratu/)
 * (@mariusbratu)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I was hoping someone can answer my doubts I’m having. So the question is why 
   we need a loop inside page.php template? I don’t understand why we need it as
   seems that we always have just a single post to display (ie content of that page).
   Is there any reason to do that?
 * Thanks and appreciate any of your answers.
    Marius B.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/#post-3467550)
 * The loop is what gets and displays any posts – even just one:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/#post-3467642)
 * ‘technically’ you only need to use `the_post();` – this will get the next post
   object of the loop (or the only post object in a page.php template);
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post)
 * this might generate an error of there is not post (untested), therefore I would
   consider it a good habit always to use the full loop code.
 *  Thread Starter [mariusbratu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariusbratu/)
 * (@mariusbratu)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/#post-3467643)
 * Thank you all for your answers!
 * So i think its safe to have the_title() outside of loop. As it will always be
   a single post. I was concerned that there are situations where the page.php template
   will list more than one post, and that i wasnt aware of such case.
 * My current code looks like this:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div class="container breadcrumb">
           <div class="inner-container clearfix">
       	    <span class="dot"></span>
               <h1 class="h2"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
           </div>
       </div>
   
       <div class="container">
       	<div class="inner-container clearfix">
       		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
               <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('clearfix'); ?> role="article">
                   <section class="entry-content">
                       <?php the_content(); ?>
                   </section> <!-- end article section -->
               </article> <!-- end article -->
               <?php endwhile; ?>
       	</div>
       </div>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/#post-3467645)
 * > So i think its safe to have `the_title()` outside of loop.
 * no – although it might seem to work in most cases, this also might get random
   results.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title)
 *  Thread Starter [mariusbratu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariusbratu/)
 * (@mariusbratu)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/#post-3467646)
 * In such case, is there a safe way to have the title of the post outside of loop?
   Can you please make a suggestion here?
 *  [chaleybgis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaleybgis/)
 * (@chaleybgis)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-we-need-a-loop-inside-pagephp-template/#post-3467920)
 * [@mariusbratu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariusbratu/) –
 * You should be able to safely echo [get_the_title();](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_title)
   outside of the loop,,

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