Autoremove Attachments vs Custom Query Shortcode

Autoremove Attachments helps you keep the Media Library clean by deleting all media files attached as child attachments to a post, page, or custom post type when the parent is deleted. By default, when you delete content from your website, regardless if it’s a post, a page, a product, or any kind of post type, WordPress keeps the media files previously associated with it, even if after the removal of your content they are not used anywhere else. Autoremove Attachments tries to solve this problem by automating the removal of all media files that have a child-parent relationship with the removed content. (so you don’t have to manually track and remove orphan files left on your server) Important Considerations A soft delete that places your post, page, or custom post type in Trash will not trigger the removal of its child attachments. The purge happens when you empty your trash. When you delete a post, page or custom post type, we try to determine if its child attachments are used anywhere else on your website. If they are, we do not remove them, to prevent broken links. The additional checks before the automatic removal can be disabled from the Media Settings for improved performance on large websites with thousands of posts and media files. The plugin only removes files tracked by WordPress. Some poorly coded themes generate additional thumbnail sizes that are not tracked by WordPress and this always leads to orphan files left on your server. Compatibility and Third-Party Support WooCommerce Easy Digital Downloads All themes and plugins that do things the WordPress way If you use a plugin to optimize and clean your database of revisions, trashed posts, etc, make sure you use one that relies on native WordPress functions to perform the maintenance tasks. We recommend WP-Sweep.

This plugin gives you [query] shortcode which enables you to query and output any posts filtered by specific attributes. Usage You can use most parameters supported by WP_Query class to filter the posts; you can query for specific post types, categories, tags, authors, etc. Other supported parameters Aside from WP_Query parameters, the shortcode also supports the following additional parameters: featured: to query for sticky posts which by default are excluded from the query. thumbnail_size: to specify the size of the {THUMBNAIL} images. You can use built-in image sizes or custom ones you’ve defined. content_limit: to limit the number of words of the {CONTENT} var; by default it’s “0” which means it outputs the whole content. posts_separator: text to display between individual posts. lens: custom output template – see description below. twig_template: output template using Twig templating engine – requires the Timber library. Formatting the output You can define how you want to format the output inline within an opening [query] and closing [/query] tag. Available keywords are: TITLE, CONTENT, AUTHOR, AUTHOR_URL, DATE, THUMBNAIL, CONTENT, COMMENT_COUNT. The following example will display the latest 5 posts from the category with the ID of 3, showing a post title and comment count, with a link to the post: [query posts_per_page=”5″ cat=”3″] {TITLE} ({COMMENT_COUNT}) [/query] Grid display With the “cols” parameter you can display the output in a grid. [query posts_per_page=”3″ cols=”3″] {THUMBNAIL} {TITLE} {CONTENT} [/query] will display the latest 3 posts in the defined template, in 3 columns. The plugin will automatically divide the grid into rows based upon the ‘posts_per_page’ option, divided by the ‘cols’ option. Lenses (output templates) With the “lens” parameter you can customize the display of the query results using a template. Some basic lenses/templates are provided: ul: unordered list of linked post titles. ul-title-date: same as ‘ul’, but also displays the posted date. article-excerpt: series of articles, with a header containing the linked post title, and the excerpt. article-excerpt-date: same as ‘article-excerpt’, but also displays the posted date. cards: displays the post thumb above the header with linked post title, followed by the excerpt. Bootstrap lenses Some pre-defined lenses/templates are provided which use JavaScript Components from the Bootstrap CSS framework. The generated markup is compliant with the 5.x version of Bootstrap. This feature relies on Bootstrap library to be already loaded on the page, the plugin does not include it. If you’re using a Bootstrap-based theme, this should work; otherwise you can use the Bootstrap plugin). Tabs This will show the latest 3 posts in a tabbed widget. [query posts_per_page=”3″ lens=”tabs”] Accordion This will create an accordion widget of all our posts from the “faq” post type. [query posts_per_page=”0″ post_type=”faq” lens=”accordion”] Carousel This creates a carousel of latest five featured posts: [query posts_per_page=”5″ featured=”true” lens=”carousel”] Custom Lenses/templates You can create your own custom templates and put them into one of these pre-defined folder names within your theme: ‘query-shortcode-templates’ ‘partials/query-shortcode-lenses/’ ‘html/lenses/’ Or simply specify your own subfolder in the ‘lens’ parameter: [query lens=”folder/template-name”] Twig Template Support Starting with version 0.4, you can use Twig templates for your output. Support for Twig is provided by the Timber library. This requires that Timber 2.x be installed as a Composer dependency. To use a Twig template for your query output, simply use the 'twig_template' parameter instead of the 'lens' parameter, and provide the path to your template. By default, Timber looks within the views folder in your active theme. You can change the default template location in Timber. Examples: [query twig_template="template-name.twig"] [query twig_template="folder/template-name.twig"]