What is WordPress 5.8’s Query Loop Block?
WordPress 5.8, anticipated to be released in July, takes the next step towards Full Site Editing. This release includes the Query Loop and Page List blocks, which introduce the concept of displaying content dynamically and allow you to build dynamic layouts using new WordPress core blocks. WordPress’s plan for Full Site Editing is to eventually allow users to build all parts of their sites without any PHP using blocks. This includes full control over your page, single post, archive, and 404 templates, as well as areas formerly controlled by themes, such as headers, footers, and sidebars. It will make the WordPress admin function more like theme or page builders. The Full Site Editing roadmap is still vague with many future release dates still listed as “To Be Confirmed,” but WordPress 5.8 provides a glimpse of the new Full Site Editing experience with several features that are paving the way: Collections of block layouts called Patterns, plus a growing Pattern DirectoryBlock-based widget editorBlock-based template editor for landing pagesNew blocks for displaying theme information like your logo and site tagline (to use in templates)New blocks for displaying dynamic content (to use with the new Query Loop block) What is the Query Loop…
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