Query Loop output as list
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Trying to use Query Loop to insert an unordered list (ul element) of just the titles of matching posts or pages. Am I missing something obvious, or is there simply not any way to do this? I only seem to be able to include the post title as a Header block — not as a list element (li).
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Thanks for your reply, threadi. I generally would want to have the page/post titles be links to the page or post, yes. The purpose is navigation to related information.
The Latest Posts block addresses a small subset of the use cases. Notably, it only supports lists of posts, not pages, and the selection criteria and options even for posts is pretty limited. For instance I can’t select posts by tag, can’t sort by menu order, can’t specify links to open in new tab, have no paging controls (or options to control the paging controls if there were any).
So the Query Loop is much closer to giving me what I need — it really only needs to have the ability to format the results as a list rather than an outline with headers. Some custom CSS is acceptable, though as I said, a lot of users would really prefer to avoid even that.
A couple sample use cases:
- The list of child pages in the body of Start your own FLAG! – Free Little Art Galleries page.
- In the body of a page about how to decorate your tiny art gallery, I want to embed a list of the blog posts that discuss how to create or acquire various types of tiny furniture, from the furniture tag taxonomy.
- A small publisher with a website that uses a custom page type such as that associated with the Mooberry Book manager plugin, might like to write author bio pages and at the end a bullet list of all titles associated with that author (with links to the book page).
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