Search Widget Post Types for Elementor 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.

Adds an option to make Elementor’s search widget only search for a specific post type such as WooCommerce products or custom post types.