Feedback and Discussion, bring your opinions

-Give each exposed filter it’s own submit button with the ability to change the submit button text.
-Ajax integration.
-Filtering by a custom field that is a date as seen at:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-query-wrangler-sorting-by-custom-field-and-filtering-by-date?replies=11

Following up on the custom solution you implemented for my request, allowing a manual choice of widget template when configuring the query.

I second nolaandy’s suggestions, especially about AJAX integration.

Unless there’s already a way and I missed it, maybe a way to add classes to the output. For example, if I want to do a table layout, being about to add classes to that table would be nice.

Update:

1. Pages: I’m going to abandon any sort of Page/post_type approach in favor of shortcodes. Shortcodes are just too easy to use to ignore. Now that I’ve added a means of adding context to the shortcodes, they can solve a lot of problems.
2. Exposed: There are a few exposed filters in QW now, and I’ll be improving them and adding more later. I’ll make sure to allow for each filter to work on it’s own as nolaandy suggests, but the mechanism for this will probably be on the template level, and not baked into the UI.
3. Ajax: Along with a few other ideas, I believe I’m going to break ajax out into it’s own plugin. It will be a little easier to support, and can safely develop quicker on its own.
4. Overrides: Never been quite happy with the overrides implementation, and I get very few (if any) support requests around them, so I’m not sure anyone is even using them. Overrides will probably be broken out into its own plugin as well to make QW core lighter.
5. Filtering by custom fields – ie, Custom WHERE clauses and JOINS – will get implemented in the future of 1.5.x once I settle on a good UI concept that fulfills the needs.
6. More control over the templates, including the easy re-use of templates will be implemented in during a UI rebuild (1.6)

Additionally, I plan to move slightly away from the Views UI in the future. The general concepts will work the same, but I’m not happy with the “Basics” column as it mixes query arguments with display options in a confusing way. My plan is to separate the handlers that deal with setting up the query from those that determine the way a query is displayed.

Thanks for the feedback, and let me know if you have further thoughts on these or other items.

WP 3.9.1
bbPress 2.5.3-5249
Suffusion Theme 4.4.7
Custom Post Plug-in 2.5.4

Many thanks for a reliable substitute for the bbPress “recent replies” widget:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/need-some-help-getting-this-right-1?replies=9

I have configured QW to display the latest topic replies as a list labeled “Hottest Topics.”

Checking the magic “Widget Theme Compatibility” option made it work perfectly except for one tiny thing:

How do I remove “reply to:” from the list (it looks kinda dorky)?

I hope the answer is easy for you—it’s hard for me as a code-clueless amateur WordPress user.

Cheers, Anna
https://forums.typeheritage.com

P.S. Until this issue is resolved, “Hottest Topics” is not visible in the navigation menu. It belongs above “Latest Topics” in the sidebar. Thanks again for your help!

Hi Type Historian,

I’ve moved your question to a new thread and provide a solution: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/bbpress-recent-replies-query?replies=2

I was on the support page looking for a solution that I did not find:

1. Exposed filter by fields (/custom fields). Was really pining for that Drupal behavior.

2. And a fix for the wonky/jumping IMPORT button. (There is a bug report for it already. But problem still exists in latest version.)

This plugin is a godsend. Especially, as a Drupal Sitebuilder.

3. Having an {empty} behavior for each field would be nice.

Example scenario: Staff directory
I’d like to have a “Full Profile” link to the full page/post IF the excerpt/body field was not null. And, for that permalink to be hidden if it is.

So, I really need an {empty} rewrite rule/override.

Hi. A possibility to load own templates/styles would be awesome..

I know how to override by copying and pasting in theme folders template folder, but i can only override standard templates, when i use i.e.: query-unordered_list-my-own-style or my_own_style the template does not appear..

It would be really cool to be able to add even more styles so you can have “Flexslider” “Isotope” or what ever template u want to use! ??

Thanks for a awesome plugin though…

Any hope of getting exposed filters for categories, tags, and custom fields? (Have a desperate need for that at this very moment. Hoping.)

Answering here for consistency.

The “Taxonomy: ___ ” filters can be exposed. Let me know if you run into any issues.

Any feedback for my question??????

Hi boutzamat,

You could possibly achieve this by overriding the query-wrapper template for a specific , but I don’t think that completely meets your needs.

Someone else asked about being able to choose the template from a list, and I think that is a great idea. Unfortunately I’ve been slammed with work for about 3 months now.

If it’s any consolation, I’ve stopped accepting new work and plan to put a ton of effort into my plugins during Oct. The feature you’re describing is on my “if I had time –” to do list.

Wish I had better news.

Thanks,
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan.

Yes i know i can override the template, but as you say that doesnt meet the needs :/

Sure no problem.. i know this thread might not be for support, but i was just wondering… i did what you said in this tutorial: https://www.widgetwrangler.com/forum/query-wrangler/general/create-new-templates and the suggested template path has been met , but still my templates is only working when i override the “master” template.. – this is why i thought i’d ask for a “custom template” feature ??

Thanks again for the awesome plugin!