With our Collection List Shortcode it was possible to display a list of collections anywhere on your site, which was mostly used to build a “Client Area” page for clients. This worked well and even allowed for some customizations like querying for client email addresses, post status (sent, approved etc.) or specific collections by ID that you want to display.
Yet, in the modern WordPress world where everything is made of blocks, using shortcodes felt more and more antiquated and it was time to rebuild this as a custom block.
So during the last few months or so, we spent some time on and off working on a new block to ultimately replace the old shortcode. The new block will allow the same or better level of customization, but will be much easier to configure in the backend, as you would expect from a WordPress block.
Here’s a sneak peak of how this will look like in the backend:
On the frontend side of things, the lists so far looks similar compared to the shortcode and we might add a few small enhancements until release.
Right now, there are only a handful of small bugs to fix before this will be ready for release, so you can definitely expect this to be available in one of the next updates!
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