Search & Filter vs Advanced Views – Display Framework for Gutenberg & Elementor

Query, filter and display content dynamically – WooCommerce and CPT Grids, ACF Galleries, MetaBox Maps and more. ⭐ Why Choose Advanced Views? Advanced Views is a framework that empowers you to create the layouts and selections you need, without bloatware or heavy dependencies. ✅ Solid by design: craft modular and reusable layouts. Avoid repetition, style conflicts, and messy code snippets. ✅ Content-driven: pull content dynamically, with granular filtering and sorting options, built on top of the native WordPress Query. Master advanced database queries with post fields, taxonomies, and meta values. ✅ Time-saver: automate the groundwork and data fetching. Focus on creating while leaving typical routines behind. ✅ Fully customizable: directly access the template code to create advanced elements, like Grids and Sliders, and harness your theme styles and scripts. ✅ Easy to embed: using cross-editor shortcode or a Gutenberg integration block. 🧩 Plenty of Use Cases Custom fields and Post Types are essential to WordPress. Advanced Views natively supports them – giving you the freedom to pull, mix, and combine them in a common layout. Popular scenarios include: Displaying custom fields: 🔹On a single page: to enrich landing page sections 🔹CPT-wide: estimated delivery time for all Products 🔹Site-wide: contact details from the Options page 🔹User-specific: fields of the current user in a custom banner or profile page Displaying Posts, Products and CPT: 🔹Posts: blog posts from a specific category 🔹WooCommerce: related Products in a grid or carousel 🔹Event lists: Show upcoming events, hide past events 🔹Real Estate listings: properties by location, size, or type 🔹Locations map: display all pick-up location markers on a single map 🔹Reviews and Comments: product reviews or user comments 🔗 Multiple Content Sources Advanced Views is vendor-independent and plugin-agnostic – so it will work with WordPress Posts, WooCommerce Products, and any CPT on your website. Learn it once and use it everywhere with built-in support for: 🔹All Custom Post Types registered in WordPress 🔹WordPress post fields (title, featured image, author, taxonomy terms…) 🔹Woo Product fields (price, sku, stock status, weight…) 🔹Advanced Custom Fields (whether it’s text, select, image, gallery, repeater or relationship) 🔹MetaBox fields (like map, oEmbed, taxonomy, group… ) 🔹Pods fields (from WYSIWYG, price, date and time… ) You can integrate data from any external source, including API-based, directly into Layouts using snippets. 🚀 Powerful features Whether you’re a developer working on a child theme, a web creator using a page builder, or a tech-savvy website owner, Advanced Views makes the process easier with: 🔹Storage options: craft Layouts using the on-site editor, or edit them inside your favourite IDE, with git-friendly templates. 🔹Multilingual-friendly: translate any text or label in the Layouts using your favourite tool (like WPML or Polylang) 🔹Automatic template validation: keep all the Layouts up-to-date with bulk validation, and get prompted to update the relevant layouts when used meta fields have been changed. 🔹Template engine options: opt for the Twig or Blade template engine site-wide, or mix it up and make a per Layout decision. 🔹Just-in-time assets loader: get layout styles and scripts injected just-in-time, on a per-page basis. Make fast page loading and great speed metrics your defaults. 🔹Live reload and Dev mode: see live changes to Layouts on the page, and find used layouts without searching. 📚 Extensive Documentation & Friendly Support 🔹Helpful guides, FAQs, tips, and common use cases with code snippets 🔹Lite users are supported via the public wordpress.org forum 🔹Pro users get priority support via our website 🔹Actively maintained and tested against the latest WordPress releases 🔓 Unlock More with Advanced Views Pro Advanced Views Pro takes your content displays to the next level with extended features: Layouts get: 🔹Repeater, Group, and Flexible fields support – display complex nested fields — including repeaters within repeaters. 🔹Gutenberg block option – turn any layout into a Gutenberg block with a single checkbox. Same template with full markup control and zero React coding. 🔹Masonry, LightBox, Slider integrations – turn your Repeater or User fields into a slider, Gallery Images into Masonry, or enable LightBox for single images. 🔹Reusable components library – reuse existing Layouts on other websites with a single-click Git sync. Post Selections get: 🔹Meta filters – precise post selections with filtering by meta fields: define bindings to URL arguments, current meta values, and more. 🔹Ajax pagination of results: choose between options for load more button, infinity scroll, or page numbers. 🔹Post carousels: turn queried posts into sliders.

Search & Filter is a simple search and filtering plugin for WordPress – it is an advancement of the WordPress search box. You can search by Category, Tag, Custom Taxonomy, Post Type, Post Date or any combination of these easily to really refine your searches – remove the search box and use it as a filtering system for your posts and pages. Fields can be displayed as dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons or multi selects. Links: Search & Filter Documentation | Follow us on Twitter Get more features with Search & Filter Pro View live demo >> Search Custom Fields, Post Meta, Authors, Post Types, Post Dates, Taxonomies, Tags, Categories Use AJAX to display results – no more page reloading! Search Post Meta/Custom Fields with checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, multiselects or comboboxes jQuery range slider, date pickers and auto-complete comboboxes for selects and multiselects Order Results Field – users can order results by meta value, Post ID, author, title, name, date, date modified, parent ID, random, comment count and menu order Drag & Drop editor Use custom templates Create as many fields and different search forms as you like Use for blogs, reviews sites, news sites, property sites and more. Use for your online shop – tested and compatible with WooCommerce, WP eCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads Place anywhere in your themes and posts using shortcodes and widgets Works with WPML Works with Advanced Custom Fields Extremely easy to use admin UI, fully integrated with WP 3.8+ Dedicated Support More info >>