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Peter Hebert

This plugin gives you <code>[query]</code> shortcode which enables you to query and output any posts filtered by specific attributes.
<h4>Usage</h4>
You can use most parameters supported by <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_Query class</a> to filter the posts; you can query for specific post types, categories, tags, authors, etc.
<h4>Other supported parameters</h4>
Aside from WP_Query parameters, the shortcode also supports the following additional parameters:
<ul>
<li>featured: to query for sticky posts which by default are excluded from the query.</li>
<li>thumbnail_size: to specify the size of the {THUMBNAIL} images. You can use <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size#Reserved_Image_Size_Names" rel="nofollow ugc">built-in image sizes</a> or custom ones you’ve defined.</li>
<li>content_limit: to limit the number of words of the {CONTENT} var; by default it’s “0” which means it outputs the whole content.</li>
<li>posts_separator: text to display between individual posts.</li>
<li>lens: custom output template – see description below.</li>
<li>twig_template: output template using Twig templating engine – requires the Timber library.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Formatting the output</h4>
You can define how you want to format the output inline within an opening <code>[query]</code> and closing <code>[/query]</code> tag. 
Available keywords are: TITLE, CONTENT, AUTHOR, AUTHOR_URL, DATE, THUMBNAIL, CONTENT, COMMENT_COUNT.
The following example will display the latest 5 posts from the category with the ID of 3, showing a post title and comment count, with a link to the post: 
 [query posts_per_page=”5″ cat=”3″]
<h3><a href="{URL}" rel="nofollow ugc">{TITLE} ({COMMENT_COUNT})</a></h3>
[/query]
Grid display
With the “cols” parameter you can display the output in a grid. 
 [query posts_per_page=”3″ cols=”3″] {THUMBNAIL}
<h3>{TITLE}</h3>
{CONTENT} [/query] 
will display the latest 3 posts in the defined template, in 3 columns. 
The plugin will automatically divide the grid into rows based upon the ‘posts_per_page’ option, divided by the ‘cols’ option.
<h4>Lenses (output templates)</h4>
With the “lens” parameter you can customize the display of the query results using a template. Some basic lenses/templates are provided:
<ul>
<li>ul: unordered list of linked post titles.</li>
<li>ul-title-date: same as ‘ul’, but also displays the posted date.</li>
<li>article-excerpt: series of articles, with a header containing the linked post title, and the excerpt.</li>
<li>article-excerpt-date: same as ‘article-excerpt’, but also displays the posted date.</li>
<li>cards: displays the post thumb above the header with linked post title, followed by the excerpt.</li>
</ul>
Bootstrap lenses
Some pre-defined lenses/templates are provided which use JavaScript Components from the <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bootstrap</a> CSS framework. The generated markup is compliant with the 5.x version of Bootstrap.
This feature relies on Bootstrap library to be already loaded on the page, the plugin does not include it.
If you’re using a Bootstrap-based theme, this should work; otherwise you can use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bootstrap/" rel="ugc">Bootstrap plugin</a>).
<a href="http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#tabs" rel="nofollow ugc">Tabs</a>
This will show the latest 3 posts in a tabbed widget. 
 [query posts_per_page=”3″ lens=”tabs”]
<a href="http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#tabs" rel="nofollow ugc">Accordion</a>
This will create an accordion widget of all our posts from the “faq” post type. 
 [query posts_per_page=”0″ post_type=”faq” lens=”accordion”]
<a href="http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#carousel" rel="nofollow ugc">Carousel</a>
This creates a carousel of latest five featured posts: 
 [query posts_per_page=”5″ featured=”true” lens=”carousel”]
Custom Lenses/templates
You can create your own custom templates and put them into one of these pre-defined folder names within your theme:
<ul>
<li>‘query-shortcode-templates’</li>
<li>‘partials/query-shortcode-lenses/’</li>
<li>‘html/lenses/’</li>
</ul>
Or simply specify your own subfolder in the ‘lens’ parameter: 
 [query lens=”folder/template-name”]
<h4>Twig Template Support</h4>
Starting with version 0.4, you can use Twig templates for your output. Support for Twig is provided by the <a href="https://github.com/timber/timber" rel="nofollow ugc">Timber</a> library.
This requires that Timber 2.x be installed as a <a href="https://timber.github.io/docs/v2/installation/installation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Composer dependency</a>.
To use a Twig template for your query output, simply use the 'twig_template' parameter instead of the 'lens' parameter, and provide the path to your template. By default, Timber looks within the <code>views</code> folder in your active theme. You can <a href="https://timber.github.io/docs/v2/guides/template-locations/#changing-the-default-folder-for-twig-files" rel="nofollow ugc">change the default template location</a> in Timber.
Examples:
<pre><code>[query twig_template="template-name.twig"]
[query twig_template="folder/template-name.twig"]
</code></pre>

Custom Query Shortcode

A powerful shortcode that enables you to query anything you want and display it however you like, on both pages and posts, and in widgets.

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Loops & Logic is a toolset that allows you to have extensive control over the display of WordPress content & data on your site’s frontend for when your theme or builder doesn’t have the options you need. This plugin gives you the power of custom PHP theme & builder module development using a simplified HTML-like syntax that will be familiar to any frontend developer.
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Please see the <a href="https://loopsandlogic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">official plugin site</a> and <a href="https://docs.loopsandlogic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">the documentation</a> for a complete description of plugin features.</li>
<li>Support & discussions can be found on <a href="https://tangibletalk.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">our forum located here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use HTML templates with dynamic tags like Loop, Field, and If</li>
<li>Use theme location rules to apply custom templates to post types, taxonomies & more (similar to Beaver Themer or Elementor Theme Builder)</li>
<li>Easily enqueue your CSS stylesheets and Javascript anywhere using a visual location rule builder</li>
<li>Seamlessly write your CSS directly in SASS without worrying about compilation</li>
<li>Create query loops of any content type, such as: posts, pages, custom post types, attachments, users, taxonomies and terms</li>
<li>Display built-in and custom fields</li>
<li>Build logic to display things based on certain conditions, for example: creating a menu, with some links only for logged-in users, or by user role</li>
<li>Create custom shortcodes to display anything from a custom field to an entire dynamic-data driven web page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Example Usage</h3>
At the core of L&L is the ability to quickly and elegantly loop through WordPress data like in this example of displaying a list of links to the three most recent posts
<pre><code><ul>
 <Loop type=post count=3 orderby=date order=desc>
 <li>
 <a href="{Field url}"><Field title /></a>
 </li>
 </Loop>
</ul>
</code></pre>
Accomplishing the same thing in PHP is a little more complex:
<pre><code><?php
$args = array(
 'post_type' => 'post',
 'posts_per_page' => 3,
 'orderby' => 'date',
 'order' => 'DESC',
);
$query = new WP_Query( '$args' ); ?>
<?php if ( $query->have_posts() ) : ?>
 <ul>
 <?php while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>

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

 <?php endwhile; ?>
 </ul>
<?php endif; ?>
</code></pre>
It can be difficult to add PHP to your site if you’re not a backend developer, but L&L is a breeze to include, even in a page builder layout.
Page builders like Gutenberg, Elementor, and Beaver Builder often have gaps in their capabilities that would normally require you to either develop a custom add-on or purchase a bloated add-on pack just to get the one element you need. L&L adds a template editor module directly to each builder so that you can simply describe what you want to display in L&L code and place it using the builder interface. You can even copy-paste your L&L code between page builders if you work with more than one! It’s like having your own page builder addon factory.
<h3>Plugin & Theme Support</h3>
<h4>Plugin Support:</h4>
Loops & Logic works with the post types and custom fields added by most plugins, but plugins with special data structures like a custom tables or fields with data formats that need parsing require us to program explicit support.
<h4>Bundled integrations:</h4>
✅ Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
L&L supports Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) field types in the core, allowing you to work with most of their field types out of the box! We also plan to support other WordPress custom field plugins such as Pods & Metabox in the future.
<pre><code><Loop acf_flexible=field_name>
 <If field=layout value=layout_1>

 Layout 1
 <img src="{Field acf_image=field_name field=url}" />
 <Field acf_editor=field_name />

 <Else if field=layout value=layout_2 />

 Layout 2
 <Field acf_editor=field_name />
 <img src="{Field acf_image=field_name field=url}" />

 </If>
</Loop>
</code></pre>
✅ Elementor
Loops & Logic provides an Elementor widget that allows you to either write L&L code directly in the page builder widget or select from a pre-existing saved template.
✅ Gutenberg
Loops & Logic provides a Gutenberg block that allows you to either write L&L code directly in the block builder block or select from a pre-existing saved template.
✅ Beaver Builder
Loops & Logic provides a Beaver Builder module that allows you to either write L&L code directly in the page builder module or select from a pre-existing saved template.
✅ WP Grid Builder
Loops & Logic provides a WP Grid Builder block that allows you to select from a pre-existing saved template to load in WP Grid Builder.
✅ WP Fusion
The freely-included WP Fusion integration allows you to use conditional logic to protect or display different content based on a user’s tags.
<pre><code><If user_field=wp_fusion_tags includes value="123">
 User has tag ID 123
<Else />
 User does not have tag.
</If>
</code></pre>
We’ll be rolling out premium addons for popular plugins in the coming months, so check out our website to see what’s available!
<h4>Premium addons coming soon:</h4>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Modern Tribe Events Calendar</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>LearnDash</li>
<li>LifterLMS</li>
</ul>
<h4>Theme Support:</h4>
Everything will work with themes built according to WordPress standards.

Loops & Logic

As a WordPresser who slings HTML + Tailwind CSS, this plugin has been an absolute godsend. I can do complex queries in the front end, and can go further than any 'Posts Module/Block/Widget' UI could ever hope for.

The fact that there’s only ~700 downloads at the time of this review is borderline criminal, but hey, I like to adopt the good stuff early :)

Dave Bloom

Just brilliant. Great support too.


Quite a nifty and powerful plugin for lowcode templating :) Saves a ton of development time.


Excellent lowcode templating


This is no exaggeration. L&L has been a lifesaver to me and saved hundreds of hours of extra work in template building. Really well done, Tangible. "This is the way!"


Lifesaver


Thanks for this plugin, it's great for its simplicity and concept, I love the ACF support.



Great documentation!


Amazing and seamless


I'm really happy with this plugin. I inherited a website that was using a similar but abandoned plugin, and I was able to replicate everything with L&L. The documentation is pretty thorough. Works well with ACF too.


Helpful Plugin

Loops & Logic is a template system with content loops and conditions.

Custom Query Shortcode vs Loops & Logic