It's unfortunate that this is necessary. Other frameworks have normal iterators, the for loop, maybe a while loop as well. They just show items from the db. Simple. WP has somehow fetishized this simple affair into "The Loop"- 3 different functions, all with slightly different behavior and syntax, with about 40 arbitrary defaults each that must be overridden if you want basic, bare bones behavior. It's no surprise that WP is the only framework that needs an online generator for something that is usually so simple. I could get into "The Post" as well, but I'll leave that for another time.
Very cute! Love the sentence-based construction.<p>This would be really strong if it allowed you to generate more complex queries. For instance, you can't select more than one post status, select a custom post type, or use meta fields as part of the query.<p>I get that it's meant to provide a nice starting point, but value for <i>me</i> (and I get that I might not be a target) would be a natural language abstraction of the more complex queries.
I think this is awesome. Obviously it's not geared towards intermediate or higher level WordPress developers, but for someone like my wife who is just digging into WordPress looping it's a wonderful learning tool.
Great, however I can't help but think that 10minutes spent making the response AJAX would make the app much more user-friendly/responsive and easier to iterate through changes quickly.
On Chrome I can't delete 'anyone', 'all' or 'any' from the text fields. I can only type new characters in front of the default text. On the initial load, 'anyone' is also cut off, looks like 'anyor'.<p>Other than that, this looks like a very nice site for a non-programmer or new programmer who wants to customize a theme they found.
Not the greatest experience on iPad 2. Back on the desktop, it doesn't seem to clear values, only adds them (I'm playing with chaning posts, page, etc..)<p>Here's a good WP Query resource I've been using to structure marginally complex queries:<p><pre><code> https://gist.github.com/luetkemj/2023628</code></pre>
Here is a library I wrote to make querying WordPress easier: <a href="https://github.com/ramen/wp-find" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ramen/wp-find</a><p>It has a more conventional builder-style API that may answer the complaints of those wishing for a more straightforward way to write loops.
I wrote a WordPress plugin that allows you to use the WP_Query class as an iterator:<p><a href="https://github.com/cmwelsh/zesty-wp-query" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cmwelsh/zesty-wp-query</a>