2 feature ideas…

1) Interesting idea!

Yes, I remember I had a similar thought before, for some situation. I’ll have to think about how to implement it, as it could get complicated quickly – for each taxonomy, date/month, etc., plus some way of displaying each category name.

So it could go something like:

[for each="category"]
    [each name]
    [loop type="post"]
        [content field="title"]
    [/loop]
[/for]

And the loop will be filtered by each category? Well, looks like it might take some time to develop, so I’ll put it on a list for now. ??

2) It’s true, there has been demand for content sliders. Sure, if you could post your method with cycle2 on a new thread, I’d be curious to see it, and it would be helpful for others.

I’m currently developing a plugin called Custom Toolbox, which adds many features to the content shortcode – layout, slider, lightbox, dropdown, etc., so I’ll let you know when I get it in good shape.

Essentially it’s just a loop nested in a loop.

Outer loop displays categories/tax’s, dates… and then the “content” of that loop contains another [loop] of contained posts. I don’t have a need for it this moment, but in the past I have. I like your logic of [for each=””][each name]. That’s got a lot of potential for flexibility. If I were a better coder I’d offer to help, but, this is not my gift!

I look forward to purchasing/donating for your toolbox when it’s ready.

I see what you mean, that the foreach feature would be just another loop. True, it might not take too long to implement, and like you, I’ve had situations where I would have used it.

It’s interesting how these shortcodes are growing to be like a simple templating language. The toolbox is meant to extend the vocabulary with CSS and jQuery features. I hope to get it ready soon!

Thank you for the suggestions – I enjoy the process of building and improving the plugin, and to see how people are using it for different purposes. I’ll let you know when I implement the foreach feature.

OK, so I couldn’t resist building the for/each loop. Please check out the latest update. I added a reference page for this feature.

Eliot,
It is very, very pretty. Bravo!

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Another feature idea:

Maybe I’ve missed something, but I couldn’t find out how to make the date_format work on a custom date field that houses unix timestamps as a string.

I ended up using your JS wrapper to add my own date conversion and it works fine. But it’d be great to either know how to do this with your existing plugin methods OR for you to extend the date formatting to custom fields.

Hello,

In the latest update, I enabled the parameter date_format to work for custom fields also. It takes the field value in MySQL format, or for unix timestamp, please add: in=”timestamp”:

[content field="unix_time" date_format="F j, Y" in="timestamp"]

That’s cool to hear how you solved it using the JS field. It’s not such a commonly used feature, but I see it can come in handy for testing or quick custom solution.