lazy-blocks custom control to offer a dynamic select containing wordpress posts, pages or categories

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<p>This custom control enhances the great <a href="https://lazyblocks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lazy Blocks Plugin</a> and can be used in blocks to offer<br />
the WordPress Author to choose either wordpress posts, pages or categories.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>The custom control dynamically renders a select with options based on the chosen <code>entityType</code></li>
<li>Available entity types are
<ul>
<li>Post Type</li>
<li>Taxonomy Type</li>
<li>Post (Default or Custom post types)</li>
<li>Page</li>
<li>Taxonomy (Tags, Categories, Custom Taxonomy)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The select options can be restricted to use a certain entry as parent</li>
</ul>
<h3>Restrictions</h3>
<h4>Select Multiple Restrictions</h4>
<ul>
<li>The option “Select Multiple” is only available for the entity type <code>Post</code> / <code>Pages</code> / <code>Taxonomy</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Max Item Restriction</h4>
<p>The custom control is using the <code>getEntityRecords</code> method.</p>
<ul>
<li>This method can load a maximum of 100 entities and render them as dropdown options</li>
<li>When choosing the entity type <code>Page</code>, depending on the number of pages you have, the first time, the call might take<br />
a while, as the whole page object get’s loaded</li>
<li>To use a custom taxonomy type, make sure to activate the REST option in the <code>register_taxonomy</code> function by adding <code>'show_in_rest' => true,</code></li>
<li>Parent Entity Restriction does only work for Pages / Categories / Custom Taxonomies, as other Entity Types (e.g. Posts / Tags) cannot be nested</li>
<li>For the <code>entityType</code> <code>post-type</code>, an ignore list excludes all wordpress related post types:
<ul>
<li><code>pages</code>, <code>media</code>, <code>blocks</code>, <code>menu-items</code>, <code>navigation</code>, <code>templates</code>, <code>template-parts</code>, <code>lazyblocks</code>, <code>lazyblocks_templates</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>You can use the custom control exactly how you use normal controls for lazy blocks</p>


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