Loops & Logic

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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.

Support

• Please see the official plugin site and the documentation for a complete description of plugin features.
• Support & discussions can be found on our forum located here.

Key Features

• Use HTML templates with dynamic tags like Loop, Field, and If
• Use theme location rules to apply custom templates to post types, taxonomies & more (similar to Beaver Themer or Elementor Theme Builder)
• Easily enqueue your CSS stylesheets and Javascript anywhere using a visual location rule builder
• Seamlessly write your CSS directly in SASS without worrying about compilation
• Create query loops of any content type, such as: posts, pages, custom post types, attachments, users, taxonomies and terms
• Display built-in and custom fields
• 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
• Create custom shortcodes to display anything from a custom field to an entire dynamic-data driven web page

Example Usage

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

<ul>
  <Loop type=post count=3 orderby=date order=desc>
    <li>
      <a href="{Field url}"><Field title /></a>
    </li>
  </Loop>
</ul>

Accomplishing the same thing in PHP is a little more complex:

<?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; ?>

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.

Plugin & Theme Support

Plugin Support:

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.

Read the full description on the official page →