pradg

@poena

thanks. THis helps a lot.

So if i design the site as I want, which I can using the currently available tools, I believe I can continue using the 2025 theme for a long term and updating WP, php and plugins.

@poena

A follow-up question on this. When you say if a new theme feature that requires a later version of WP will not be added, what does this mean? COuld you pls elaborate if you can spare some time?

For example, WP 6.8 comes with a feature like Speculative Loading. So if I use a default theme, will I not get this when I update to the latest version of WP? What am I missing?

Thanks.

Thank you. Hopefully this is implemented soon.

Let’s say I have ACF fields for smartwatches which are “Model”, “Brand”, “Year”. I want to list all the models from a particular brand on a page for that specific brand. So I want to use the Model and Year fields in the Query Loop so that all the models under that Brand can be shown in order by date. Problem with this is that these fields which your plugin is pulling in don’t link to that post they belong to. so it will just be a list. For example if my post is titled “Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch M1” and Model is “Galaxy Smartwatch M1” and Year is “2025” and Brand is “Samsung”. I can use the post title and make that link to the post but that would mean that all the posts would start with Samsung which will look something like below which with a lot of entries wouldn’t look good to me.

Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch M1 2025
Samsung Galaxy Samrtwatch A2 2025
Samsung Neo Smartwatch G6 2023

If I use your block to pull in the field values, I can present this data much more cleanly like below but I can’t make the entries link to the post. If linking to the post is made available, then it would help a lot. So I can only list the Model names and the Year, and the user can click on the Model name which will take them to the post.

Galaxy Smartwatch M1 2025
Galaxy Samrtwatch A2 2025
Neo Smartwatch G6 2023

Hopefully you keep this updated. Among all the other plugins I tried to pull in ACF data, yours was the most simple and easy one. Keep it up.

Thanks.

Hi @bghatak

You’re correct in that if we keep the default option for Query Loop, the URL doesn’t have the IDs. But this si quite limiting as one has to adhere to the default options and any customization, even just to show more than 10 results doesn’t work. But I guess that’s the current implementation by he developers.

However, i do have pages(s) where I am listing posts of a certain kind and the template I have created has to have a custom query loop (using Advanced Query Loop plugin as it has options to work with meta fields) and the pagination of that page has the query ID in it. I can be ok with the Archive or Search results page using the Default Query Loop setting but on these custom Pages, I have to use a Custom Query Loop to fetch the intended posts. So on Archive or Search Results page, pagination will be “clean” but not on the custom page i created.

And from my research, I found not indexing such pages (archive, search results, listing pages) to be the best way. So other than not looking good to the user (not sure how many non-tech users even bother looking at the URL format) and with these pages not being indexed, does it matter what the format is?

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by pradg.

@bghatak

I tried with enabling the “Archive” setting on the CPT and it redirects me to the latest-news page with the Archive template and it carries the /page/2 format. But I can only use the Default setting of the Query loop on the Archive Page design. If i use Custom to even make a basic change such as show more than 10 posts, WP automatically adds the query ID in the URL. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32531

So I am either stuck to showing just 10 posts per page and keep the pretty pagination or show more than 10 posts with more custom settings and lose the pretty pagination. Is there a way I can hard code the number of posts to be shown in the Archive page template?

Thanks.

Figured it out.

Here’s what I did in case someone is looking for a similar solution.

1. Create custom fields “Model Name”, “Manufacturer”, “Year of manufacture”.
2. Install a plugin called “Blocks for ACF Fields” which pulls/displays the ACF field values. super plugin.
3. Add two instances of the Blocks for ACF Fields inside the query loop. Set the first to fetch the Model Name and second to fetch the Year of Manufacture. I didn’t bother with the Post Title and added the same info in the Model Name custom field.
4. Within AQL settings, add 2 Meta Queries. One in which you put the “Year of Manufacture” as the Meta Key and second in which you put the Manufacturer as the Meta Key and “Samsung” as the Meta Value. You can have any entry in the manufacturer (Apple, Samsung, Vivo, LG etc) and when you input that as the Meta Key, it’ll pull all the entries associated with that Manufacturer.
5. Post Order By “Meta Value Num”.
   
   Amazing plugin Advanced Query Loop.

Thanks.