Future of this plugin?

Yes, it will be maintained alongside our current and future plugins!

Curious to know what features you’d like to see. The intent with all our plugins is to remain hyper-specific and useful, so we don’t have any plans to add functionality to this particular plugin. We do have a separate “advanced operators” plugin in the works, though!

In my case… I am looking to be able to create a query loop that inherits from the template (like archives), but be able to filter by role. This is very useful if you want to showcase a section of posts of premium users as an example and at the bottom continue with the rest of the posts. The ability to extend the query loop when is not inheriting and filter by custom meta data. Is this possible?

Hm, I’m not sure this would even be covered by our Advanced Operators plugin, but we can discuss it internally.

The functionality you’re explaining sounds like something a membership plugin would normally include. I’m not familiar enough with those to know if any have smooth block support, though.

Can you share more about the Advanced Operators Plugin? Is this also for query loop blocks?

Yes, AO is another extension of the Query Loop block. Currently the plan is to add options that modify existing filters:

• Include (Any) [existing, default behavior]–?e.g. has category ‘recipe’ OR tag ‘meals’
• Exclude (None) – e.g. does not have category ‘recipe’ OR tag ‘meals’
• Overlap (All) – e.g. has category ‘recipe’ AND tag ‘meals’

This might help if there is already an existing filter for user role or custom meta data. Then you could do something like “has category dinners and has role premium” but (a) it probably wouldn’t make sense for the AO plugin to add those filters and (b) if you’re wanting to inherit the query from the template those filter and thus this plugin’s operators wouldn’t be accessible.

Not sure we’ll be able to provide a specific solution to this for you, but if you want to email [email protected] I can connect you with a developer that could make something custom happen.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Small Plugins. Reason: clarify "Include (Any)"

AO seems very promising. I will definitely check it out.

Something custom sounds interesting if is even possible. Expect an email shortly. Thank you.