Feature Request: Layout Builder: Archive/Category page layouts

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#1

Hey guys, I’m aware that this is under consideration already as part of the Layout Builder feature set. I’d like to give you a concrete example that demonstrates the IA pattern I would like to be able to implement. I’m sure there are others with similar hopes and dreams :slight_smile:

This is obviously a consolidated main “Blog” page view, but I’d like the same possibilities to extend to a single archive/category.

In the short-run, I’d be very happy just to be able to build a template via Pro at this level, and let plugins or custom code handle the display logic (as per this main Blog example, where there is obviously some custom logic that decides which posts from each category to display in the top section).

In a nutshell: the ability to display each post from the_posts() in a separately-styled way, with custom layout, is what I would really like to do.

Is that within the scope of what you’re considering?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyDOch5neKgYbe582MkMSsVEFxwfMJ2H/view?usp=sharing

#2

Hey Adam!

Sorry for missing this until now. The short answer is yes, you’ll be able to build things like that. The architecture we landed on allows you to potentially edit and style every post in the loop individually. Or you could split up the loop and style a few posts in a different style or with different elements. You could also have multiple queries in a page to pull posts from specific categories, tags, etc.

PS: Just following up on some older threads as we get closer to the next beta. We’re about to start testing it all internally. Keep an eye out a bit later in the month.

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