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This tool functions much like a Post List builder to give Admins the most amount of control over managing content to display. Developed with Web Designers & Developers in mind, makes this a highly customizable tool to have around. However, there is a sharp learning curve for most.
You must know:
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<li>HTML</li>
<li>CSS</li>
<li>(Optional)
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<li>JavaScript</li>
<li>PHP</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
<h3>Summary</h3>
Advanced Post List (aka APL) is designed to operate much like The Loop in WordPress; which is most notable in Themes. However, that concept is taken and turned into an Admin tool that can easily be changed, moved, or added/removed. This eliminates much of the backend work, and prevents being limited to what is hardcoded into a theme.
This also makes multiple Featured Content with different configurations more of a breeze, and the complexity of it is a challenge that APL achieves unlike any other.
APL can accomplish a large degree of variations, but can be broken down to 3 main types of tasks. With Filter, Design, and Placement, here are some of the key features.
<h3>Filter</h3>
<ul>
<li>Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Support (CPT) – Displays Posts/Pages from custom post types, taxonomies, and terms. This includes other plugins with post data. but may store its data differently than post_content. (Advanced Users, see php_function shortcode.)</li>
<li>Enhanced/Diverse Queries – Capable of diverse filter configuration when displaying posts. This feature allows…
<ul>
<li>Cross Filtering with Custom Post Types.</li>
<li>Diverse Post Types -> Taxonomies query configurations.</li>
<li>Multiple Query configurations with include and require.</li>
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<li>Optimized with Complex Queries – Once deemed an Achilles Heel to WP Query, steps are taken to reduce the server load as much as possible.</li>
<li>Dynamic Filters – Grabs values to filter by based on the current posts/pages being viewed. Ex. Displaying Related Posts in a Header, Footer, Sidebar, etc..</li>
<li>Show Content from Published, Private, Future, etc. – This is a development feature and may not provide intended results. Display content on the frontend so users don’t have to navigate to the admin side. Allowing private landing pages to be created. Note: Requires advanced knowledge on how WP Query and User Perms operate.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Design</h3>
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<li>Layout and Style 99.9% Customizable – There’s nearly no limitations to the design, with some exceptions that may surface with (Child) Theme’s CSS. This does require some knowledge in Web Design. Note: This is NOT to be confused with Drag and Drop UI/UX.</li>
<li>Internal Shortcodes – Adds various data from Post object, and is one of the extensive features. Being able to extend to shortcodes with custom PHP functions make the possibilities practically limitless. <a href="https://support.advancedpostlist.com/doc/internal-shortcodes/" title="List of Internal Shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">See full list & details</a>.</li>
<li>Encapsulated for Zero Conflicts – With a large number of shortcodes on any given site. Isolating Internal Shortcodes to its own instance eliminates any plugin conflicts.</li>
<li>Custom Formats to Loop ( The Loop ) – Themes follow this concept, but APL turns that concept into a tool. The “List Content” loop, as well as the before & after, is where most of the work is done with preset HTML, CSS, JS, & PHP designs. It is also optional to set an Empty Message (No Posts Found) to display.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Placement</h3>
<ul>
<li>Post List Shortcode – User friendly method of adding Preset Post Lists to a section of a page.</li>
<li>Sidebar Widget – Easier to use. However, adding post list shortcodes to the text sidebar also produces the same results.</li>
<li>PHP Hardcode – For more extensive design work. There is a public function for displaying Preset Post Lists where WordPress support and functions for admins aren’t fully present.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Plugins Tested/Supported</h3>
There’s various plugins that offer a unique capability, and some of which APL can use as intended, but there are also some don’t. Here is a list of popular plugins that have been tested and verified by Advanced Post List.
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<li>Advanced Custom Fields – Requires php_function shortcode.</li>
<li>WPML – With WordPress Multilingual installed, additional Designs can be created for rendering a Post List in different languages. Posts/Pages are handled automatically and will display content in various languages.</li>
</ul>
APL is open to development requests and welcomes those willing to report on any issues.
<h3>Help & Support</h3>
Currently, information can be found in 2 different locations. This is due to recent changes, and is only temporary.
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<li><a href="https://support.advancedpostlist.com/getting-started/" title="Getting Started w/ APL" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started</a></li>
<li><a href="https://support.advancedpostlist.com/documentation/" title="APL Documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
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<li><a href="https://support.advancedpostlist.com/doc/internal-shortcodes/" title="List of Internal Shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Internal Shortcodes</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Advanced-Post-List/advanced-post-list/wiki" title="Learn or Contribute to APL" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Wiki</a></li>
</ul>
Questions/Bug Report submit thread / ticket at <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-post-list" title="WordPress.org - Support for APL" rel="ugc">WordPress</a> or <a href="https://github.com/Advanced-Post-List/advanced-post-list/issues" title="Report an Issue" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Issue / Tickets</a>.

Advanced Post List

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Medialist plugin is designed to make displaying posts or attached page media, documents and more an easy process. Upload your content, attach it to a page, then place a medialist shortcode to display a neat list of items. You can customise the shortcode to only display a certain category or a certain number of items if you wish and also alter the style to suit your page.
<h3>Features</h3>
Note: This plugin does not add a menu item to the wordpress dashboard, functionality and customisation is purely in the form of a shortcode.
<ul>
<li>Incredibly lightweight</li>
<li>List posts and posts by author</li>
<li>List page attachments</li>
<li>List posts and attachments by tag</li>
<li>Define a category of items to display</li>
<li>Define how many items to display</li>
<li>Define the order in which items are displayed</li>
<li>Toggle pagination on/off</li>
<li>Multiple built-in styles</li>
<li>Displays the item type with identifiable icons, with the items download size</li>
<li>Place the shortcode anywhere on a page/post</li>
<li>Ability to use the shortcode many times on a single page. You can split categories, On the same page, thats fun.</li>
<li>Ability to toggle sticky posts on/off</li>
<li>Ability to paginate the list of items after a defined number of items</li>
<li>Ability to search for items in the list</li>
<li>NEW: Compatible with RML Real Media Library Plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to use the shortcode</h3>
Shortcodes are a simple way to add functionality to any wordpress page. 
To use this plugins shortcode you need to write the shortcode into the page editor or guttenberg block where you want your item list to appear.
<ol>
<li>For a default list write [medialist] with the square brackets included (this will display all attached media in a list on the page and will display pagination at 10 or more items).</li>
<li>To customise the shortcode we add some keywords, for example [medialist order= orderby= category= mediaitems= paginate= style=]. After each equals(=) sign, we need to provide a customisation. All possible customisations are listed below. 
Example 
[medialist type=post order=DESC orderby=date category=recipes,cakes] 
The above example will display a list of most recent posts by date in descending order that have recipes and or cakes as the category.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Customise the shortcode with additional keywords</h3>
Note: Some keywords can have multiple options, ensure they are seperated by a comma i.e [medialist mediatype=pdf,audio].
<ul>
<li>type=attachment (or) post</li>
<li>mediatype=excel,pdf,doc,zip,ppt,text,audio,images,other (You can use more than 1 here.)</li>
<li>order=ASC (or) DESC</li>
<li>orderby=none, ID, author, title, name, type, date, modified, parent, rand, comment_count</li>
<li>category=uncategorized,(any defined category taxonomy assigned to media or post items, you can use more than 1 here.)</li>
<li>mediaitems=10 (Provide a number of items you wish to display in the list before pagination)</li>
<li>paginate=0 (Setting paginate to 0 will disable pagination, mediaitems number will be the max items displayed, default is 10)</li>
<li>style=ml-default (Various built-in styles, write one of the style names listed below.)</li>
<li>author=author-username-here (This will display posts uploaded by the specified author, case sensitive.)</li>
<li>search=1 (Setting search to 1 will enable a basic search facility.)</li>
<li>tags= (any defined tag assigned to media or post items, you can use more than 1 here.)</li>
<li>rml_folder=(folder ID) You can find the folder ID by selecting a folder, and click the three dots on the folder toolbar. A dialog opens and in the bottom right corner there is a text label with the ID.</li>
</ul>
Note: If using the RML Real Media Library Plugin, attach your files within RML folders to the desired page as normal or use the globalitems=1 attribute. 
Other: The mediatype (other) currently supports exe,sql & xml files.
Available styles
<ul>
<li>ml-metro-light-green</li>
<li>ml-metro-green</li>
<li>ml-metro-magenta</li>
<li>ml-metro-light-purple</li>
<li>ml-mauve</li>
<li>ml-taupe</li>
<li>ml-sienna</li>
<li>ml-white</li>
</ul>
<h3>Override options for shortcode</h3>
For special use cases, you may want to override parts of the plugin using the following shortcode keywords.
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<li>sticky=0 (By default sticky posts will be ignored, setting this to 0 will pin sticky posts to the top of the list.)</li>
<li>max=200 (By default the plugin will only add 200 items to a list. You can override this by setting max= to a larger number. Or similarly a smaller number.)</li>
<li>globalitems=1 (By default attachments from the current page (or) post are able to be displayed. Setting this attribute to 1 will allow the list to display all items in the Media Library. It is recommended to set a category attribute first before using this override option.)</li>
</ul>
Example [medialist sticky=0 max=1000 mediaitems=10 type=post order=DESC orderby=date category=recipes] 
The example will now pin sticky posts to the top and will also display up-to a thousand items and because mediaitems=10 there will be 10 items per page for a total of 100 possible pages.
<h3>The defaults</h3>
A medialist will by default have the following features unless changed in your shortcode with keywords
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<li>Pagination Enabled</li>
<li>Display a maximum of 200 items</li>
<li>Sticky posts will be ignored</li>
<li>A total of 10 items will display per list and paginate for items over this number</li>
<li>Generate a list of the mediaitems attached to the current page only and of any category</li>
<li>Organise each list in ascending order by title</li>
</ul>
** Significantly older versions of WordPress upto 2 major versions are no longer tested.**
Thank You

Medialist

Organised lists. Items are displayed elegantly styled on a page. Ideal for displaying policies, documents, newsletters, media, posts and more.

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