a blog loop example

blog-query.php

 <?php

/**
 * Archive Name: Blog
 */

get_header(); ?>
    <div id="blog">

        <div id="content">

            <?php query_posts('post_type=post&post_status=publish&posts_per_page=10&paged='. get_query_var('paged')); ?>

        <?php if( have_posts() ): ?>

            <?php while( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>

            <div id="post-<?php get_the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail( array(800,600, true) ); ?></a>

                    <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

                    <span class="meta"><strong><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></strong> / <strong><?php the_author_link(); ?></strong> / <span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link(__('0 comments','example'),__('1 comment','example'),__('% comments','example')); ?></span></span>

            <?php the_excerpt(__('Continue reading »','example')); ?>

                </div><!-- /#post-<?php get_the_ID(); ?> -->

            <?php endwhile; ?>

            <div class="navigation">
                <span class="newer"><?php previous_posts_link(__('« Newer','example')) ?></span> <span class="older"><?php next_posts_link(__('Older »','example')) ?></span>
            </div><!-- /.navigation -->

        <?php else: ?>

            <div id="post-404" class="noposts">

                <p><?php _e('None found.','example'); ?></p>

            </div><!-- /#post-404 -->

        <?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

        </div><!-- /#content -->
    </div><!-- /#blog -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>