Loops & Logic

Description

Facebook group | homepage| docs |official support forum

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

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.

Bundled integrations:

✅ Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

L&L supports Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) field types in the core, allowing you to work with most of their field types out of the box! We also plan to support other WordPress custom field plugins such as Pods & Metabox in the future.

<Loop acf_flexible=field_name>
  <If field=layout value=layout_1>

    Layout 1
    <img src="{Field acf_image=field_name field=url}" />
    <Field acf_editor=field_name />

  <Else if field=layout value=layout_2 />

    Layout 2
    <Field acf_editor=field_name />
    <img src="{Field acf_image=field_name field=url}" />

  </If>
</Loop>

✅ Elementor

Loops & Logic provides an Elementor widget that allows you to either write L&L code directly in the page builder widget or select from a pre-existing saved template.

✅ Gutenberg

Loops & Logic provides a Gutenberg block that allows you to either write L&L code directly in the block builder block or select from a pre-existing saved template.

✅ Beaver Builder

Loops & Logic provides a Beaver Builder module that allows you to either write L&L code directly in the page builder module or select from a pre-existing saved template.

✅ WP Grid Builder

Loops & Logic provides a WP Grid Builder block that allows you to select from a pre-existing saved template to load in WP Grid Builder.

✅ WP Fusion

The freely-included WP Fusion integration allows you to use conditional logic to protect or display different content based on a user’s tags.

<If user_field=wp_fusion_tags includes value="123">
  User has tag ID 123
<Else />
  User does not have tag.
</If>

We’ll be rolling out premium addons for popular plugins in the coming months, so check out our website to see what’s available!

Premium addons coming soon:

  • WooCommerce
  • Easy Digital Downloads
  • Modern Tribe Events Calendar
  • Gravity Forms
  • LearnDash
  • LifterLMS

Theme Support:

Everything will work with themes built according to WordPress standards.

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Tangible Template

Installation

  1. Install & activate in the admin: Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugins

Reviews

Oktubor 22, 2023
As I am not a programmer, I was struggling really hard for a long time to output the images from an ACF gallery field as a slider on a single custom post template. I can’t believe it took me so long to find this plugin and it took me only an hour to create what I wanted using an external slider script (splide). Absolutely amazing tool. I am excited to dive deeper into the possibilities! Thank you for this genius plugin!
Oktubor 3, 2023
I needed help when swapping Custom Content Shortcode for Loops and logic. With outstanding support, I got the swap done in no time, and with an improved result! This must be one of the very best plugins out there, with very dedicated people behind it. THANK YOU!
Ogóst 26, 2023
I’ve only just scratched the surface of what this fantastic plugin can do. I’m really excited to add this to my standard go-to toolbox for WordPress development and lean more about the extensive functionality over time. Thanks a lot for all the efforts making this plugin happen!
Ogóst 12, 2023
This plugin is just brilliant. Can’t believe I only found this now. I went through dozens of ways to display dynamic content on my site, but this just blows them all away. It’s super flexible, incredibly extensive and works intuitive. Really excited to see where this project will go in the future. Keep up the good work! 😀
Julai 24, 2023
So compatible with Divi Builder. Simple and great tool joins dinamics ACF.
Read all 38 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Loops & Logic” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Loops & Logic” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Loops & Logic” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

4.2.2

Release Date: 2025-04-25

  • Object cache: Support inline templates by not prepending metadata comment to cached content

4.2.1

Release Date: 2025-04-21

  • Atomic CSS: Utility classes and variables compatible with Tailwind v4
  • Attachment loop type
    • Add field “audio” for audio file metadata from ID3 tags
    • Add field “filepath” for path to file
  • Editor: Improve passing language definition of closed tags to formatter
  • Elandel (template language in TypeScript): Start Expression and Interactivity modules
  • Enable by default new features that reached stability; Can be deactivated in settings page
    • Elementor integration: Use new code editor based on CodeMirror 6
    • Object cache for parsed and pre-processed templates
  • Export page: Improve select template types for L&L and Blocks
  • Field tag: Support “.” dot syntax for subfields (object/array/loop)
  • Gutenberg integration: Improve enqueue editor assets in iframe
  • Improve compatibility with PHP 8.4
  • Improve development setup and tests for supported PHP versions with Docker and wp-env; end-to-end tests with Playwright; and running tests on plugin zip archive before publish
  • Layout template type: Improve loading logic to pass through redirects
  • REST API: Improve compatibility with Checkview
  • Start new features: Content Structure and Form templates; ACF Extended integration; Tangible Fields integration
  • WP Grid Builder facet integration with support for pagination; Thanks to @zackpyle!