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I'm pretty much a WP newbie, and I've noticed that in a lot of themes, there is the exact same code for displaying posts in three different places (single.php, archive.php, index.php etc)

This just bugs me. It doesn't seem right to me, a programmer always trying to code as efficiently as possible.

What is the best way to generalize the layout for posts, preferably as a WordPress integrated/native function?

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inefficient in what sense? number of lines or ease in which one is able to maintain and modify it? – Milo Aug 23 '11 at 16:48
Mainly the latter, and for me it seems like these kinds of things just should be templated anyway, why type (copy) it out thrice? – CookieMonster Aug 23 '11 at 17:01
look into the themes Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven, how these use get_template_part(). – Michael Aug 23 '11 at 19:27
@Michael Ah, thanks, that helps a lot :) – CookieMonster Aug 23 '11 at 21:24

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you could move the loop content into its own file and share that between the different template files using get_template_part()

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Yep, this turned out to be what I was looking for. Thanks :) – CookieMonster Aug 23 '11 at 21:24

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