Simple Query Shortcodes

Simple Query Shortcodes This loop plugin has one piece of functionality I've found to be missing in most of the commercial plugins that do similar things: it allows for custom layouts to be registered by themes or plugins, then assigned to a loop pulling in a particular subset of posts. Table of contents Registering a layout Sample shortcodes Blog posts Pull in a specific post Custom post types Custom taxonomies View all parameters Registering a layout And here's the killer functionality. You can attach these loops to a layout you register in a theme or plugin. Then use it like so: This set of instructions are for theme and plugin authors. If you'd like to add a layout, this is the code to copy and paste. There are two functions in here – the first for adding things before the loop starts (scripts and styles, usually), and the second for setting up the markup within each post in the loop. (The first one is commented out because for simple use cases it won't be needed). Usually I add all of the styles in the theme or plugin that's registering the layout to avoid loading unnecessary files. Please note: correct usage would be to register the script elsewhere and to