Eric Teubert

<h4>Quick Start</h4>
<p>The plugin assumes your articles are well categorized.<br />
To display the archive, use the shortcode anywhere in a page or article.</p>
<pre><code>[archivist category="kitten"]
[archivist tag="kitten"]
</code></pre>
<p>Replace “kitten” with your category/tag. Watch out, we need the slug here.<br />
That’s the name without capital letters and spaces.</p>
<h4>Placeholders</h4>
<p>You can specify a custom template to display the archive elements.<br />
Go to <code>Settings > Archivist</code> for plugin preferences.<br />
Use HTML and any of the following template placeholders.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>%TITLE%</code> – The post title.</li>
<li><code>%PERMALINK%</code> – The post permalink.</li>
<li><code>%AUTHOR%</code> – The post author.</li>
<li><code>%CATEGORIES%</code> – The post categories as unordered list.</li>
<li><code>%CATEGORIES|...%</code> – The post categories with a custom separator. Example: <code>%CATEGORIES|, %</code></li>
<li><code>%TAGS%</code> – The post tags with default separator.</li>
<li><code>%TAGS|...%</code> – The post tags with a custom separator. Example: <code>%TAGS|, %</code></li>
<li><code>%EXCERPT%</code> – The post excerpt.</li>
<li><code>%POST_META|...%</code> – Any post meta. Example: <code>%POST_META|duration%</code>.</li>
<li><code>%POST_META|...|...%</code> – Any post meta list, separated by custom HTML. Example: <code>%POST_META|guest|<br>%</code></li>
<li><code>%DATE%</code> – The post date with default format.</li>
<li><code>%DATE|...%</code> – The post date with custom format. Example: <code>%DATE|Y/m/d%</code></li>
<li><code>%POST_THUMBNAIL|...x...%</code> – The post thumbnail with certain dimensions. Example: <code>%POST_THUMBNAIL|75x75%</code></li>
<li><code>%COMMENTS%</code> – The post comment count.</li>
<li><code>%ACF|field_name%</code> – Display <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ACF</a> field. Uses the <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/get_field/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>get_field()</code></a> function.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can add your own placeholders:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'archivist_template_render', function( $template, $post ) {
    // modify $template
    return $template;
}, 10, 2 );
</code></pre>
<h4>Pagination</h4>
<p>If you have many entries, you may prefer to paginate. The archivist comes with asynchronous pagination built-in. Use the <code>pagination</code> parameter in the shortcode to activate it. Its value is the amount of items you want to display per page.</p>
<pre><code>[archivist category="kitten" pagination="10"]
</code></pre>
<p>Pagination controls are displayed both on top and at the bottom of the archive. You can customize this by setting <code>controls</code> to <code>top</code> or <code>bottom</code>.</p>
<pre><code>[archivist category="kitten" pagination="10" controls="top"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Filter by Query</h4>
<p>Are you feeling bold? Is filtering by category or archive not satisfying you? Read on, I’ve got a challenge for you.<br />
WordPress uses a certain query syntax to define the so called loop which is used to display the archive.<br />
You can find the complete documentation at https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query<br />
and you can take advantage of every single parameter or combination of parameters listed there. Some examples:</p>
<pre><code>[archivist query="year=1984&author_name=gorwell"]
</code></pre>
<p>Lists all entries from the year <code>1984</code> by the author with <code>user_nicename</code> <code>gorwell</code>.</p>
<pre><code>[archivist query="tag=straw+mask&post_status=private&orderby=comment_count&order=DESC"]
</code></pre>
<p>Lists all entries marked with post status <code>private</code> which are tagged with both <code>straw</code> and <code>mask</code>, ordered by the amount of comments in a descending order.</p>
<h4>Using multiple Templates</h4>
<p>When you install the plugin, there is just one templated called “default”.<br />
If you don’t specify a specific template in the shortcode, this one will be used.<br />
Therefore the following two shortcodes yield identical results.</p>
<pre><code>[archivist category="kitten"]
[archivist category="kitten" template="default"]
</code></pre>
<p>You can add as many templates as you like. Think twice before deleting one. If it’s still in use, the archive can’t be displayed.</p>


Archivist – Custom Archive Templates

Shortcode Plugin to display an archive by category, tag or custom query. Customizable via HTML templates.

2046

<p>Easy is a multi-functional widget covering most of the native WordPress functions commonly used in templates.<br />
You can place almost any part of your content anywhere in your sidebars.</p>
<p>The widget is made out of drag&drop bits (bricks) and is totally up to you what you want to show on your website.</p>
<p>Showcase:</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Easy widget website builder - showcase" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N8KoQmQmXB0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Easy widget has variety of bricks representing the content and its logic. You can make simple or complex layout simply by dragging the bricks in to their slots and define on what cases it has to be shown or not.</p>
<p>Content bricks are:</p>
<ul>
<li>title</li>
<li>content</li>
<li>featured image</li>
<li>categories</li>
<li>tags</li>
<li>taxonomies</li>
<li>custom meta</li>
<li>comments</li>
<li>author</li>
<li>date</li>
<li>shortcode</li>
<li>post gallery</li>
<li>sidebar</li>
<li>WPpagenavi (when installed)</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>and even your own content bricks if you like</li>
</ul>
<p>The resulting content is displayed based on the logic you build the same way as you did the content.<br />
You just drag the logical bricks to their slot and the content will be shown based on that logic.<br />
Logical bricks are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of posts</li>
<li>post type chooser</li>
<li>offset</li>
<li>hierarchical logic (for pages and alike) </li>
<li>category filter</li>
<li>custom meta filter</li>
<li>post status</li>
<li>edit link</li>
<li>permissions</li>
<li>meta filter</li>
<li>taxonomy filter</li>
<li>…</li>
<li>and even your own logic bricks if you like</li>
</ul>
<p>In adition to that the result can be designed to your needs. You can add your own classes to the whole widget (the HTML structure) and also to each content brick (a part of the content).<br />
Then again it is totally up to you how you design your website.</p>
<p>Does it reminds you something?<br />
Yes, it is exactly what you do when you design your template; you loop through the post or pages in your template, but this time without touching the code.<br />
All the content and logical bricks are only graphical representation of the WordPress functions.</p>
<p>The aim of this plugin is to speed up common programming work, so we do not have to repeat our selves.<br />
Imagine a website made out of “sidebars” filled with widgets representing the list of last posts, menu, the image gallery, any content that is actually the website.<br />
All built out of widgets that you can re-arrange anyway you or your client like right out of the admin area. That is the main purpose of the widgets anyway, Easy makes it real.</p>
<h4>Notice</h4>
<p>In order to have the website fast as light even with the Easy plugin heavily in charge use the W3TC caching plugin [<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">1</a>]</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/general" rel="nofollow ugc">General description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/view" rel="nofollow ugc">View description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/control" rel="nofollow ugc">Control description</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2046.cz/easy/extend" rel="nofollow ugc">Extend</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy theme framework</h4>
<p>A pure theme with slots (sidebars) for tons of your widgets.<br />
 * <a href="http://2046.cz/easy-framework" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy framework</a></p>
<h4>Compatible with (although not fully covering):</h4>
<p><a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate/" rel="ugc">qTranslate</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/&sa=U&ei=R-DNUcKJIM2B4AT7xoGwDQ&ved=0CAcQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNE2SU-CT1WLx80VKYlh4e1w6ZIcbg" rel="nofollow ugc">CCTM</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/" rel="ugc">WP-pagenavi</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="ugc">W3TC</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/" rel="ugc">fancybox</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-to-posts/" rel="ugc">Posts 2 Posts</a>, <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced custom fields</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/" rel="ugc">Timber</a> and others.</p>


Easy

Plenty of options. Easy to use. Highly recommended to anyone who needs to create a custom configurable widget without the hassle of touching any PHP code. May need to add a dash of CSS to style your creation though.
One recommendation: Add a way to override HTML tags. For example, I prefer to use < article > instead of div and < li > for some items. A text field for the preferred HTML tag above the CSS text field would work well.
Thank you!



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