So, here’s the deal with break and continue: they’re basically your way of controlling the vibe inside a loop.

break is you saying: “Alright, that’s enough, I got what I needed, we’re done here.”
The loop stops instantly and PHP moves on. Super useful when you’re scanning through something — like a list of memberships — and once you find the active one, there’s zero reason to keep looping.

continue is different. It’s more like: “Nope, skip this one, go to the next.”
The loop stays alive, but that specific iteration is ignored from that point forward. Think of checking users and jumping over the ones with missing emails, or skipping “expired” memberships while processing the rest.

In WordPress-land, these two are everywhere — especially in places where code scans arrays of settings, users, redirects, rules, logs, whatever. And a LOT of bugs come from people stopping too early, or not skipping when they should.