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<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><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N8KoQmQmXB0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></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!



Amazing! The Best Way to Build Widgets Without Code

Easy, but complex widget website builder.

Tangible

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<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-ObJkmhJ3qU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p><strong>Loops & Logic</strong> 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.</p>
<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 <strong>custom templates</strong> to post types, taxonomies & more (similar to Beaver Themer or Elementor Theme Builder)</li>
<li>Easily <strong>enqueue</strong> your CSS stylesheets and Javascript anywhere using a visual location rule builder</li>
<li>Seamlessly write your CSS directly in <strong>SASS</strong> without worrying about compilation</li>
<li>Create query <strong>loops</strong> of any content type, such as: posts, pages, custom post types, attachments, users, taxonomies and terms</li>
<li>Display built-in and custom <strong>fields</strong></li>
<li>Build <strong>logic</strong> 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>
<p>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</p>
<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>
<p>Accomplishing the same thing in PHP is a little more complex:</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Plugin & Theme Support</h3>
<h4>Plugin Support:</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Bundled integrations:</h4>
<p><strong>✅ Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p><strong>✅ Elementor</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>✅ Gutenberg</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>✅ Beaver Builder</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>✅ WP Grid Builder</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>✅ WP Fusion</strong></p>
<p>The freely-included WP Fusion integration allows you to use conditional logic to protect or display different content based on a user’s tags.</p>
<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>
<p>We’ll be rolling out premium addons for popular plugins in the coming months, so check out our website to see what’s available!</p>
<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>
<p>Everything will work with themes built according to WordPress standards.</p>


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.

Easy vs Loops & Logic