Lazy Blocks: Select Dynamic Control

lazy-blocks custom control to offer a dynamic select containing wordpress posts, pages or categories

Author:	janwidmer (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:	5.8
WordPress version tested:	6.7.2
Plugin version:	2.9.1
Added to WordPress repository:	23-10-2020
Last updated:	14-03-2025
Rating, %:	100
Rated by:	4
Plugin URI:	https://github.com/janwidmer/lzb-select-dynam...
Total downloads:	6 754
Active installs:	500+
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This custom control enhances the great Lazy Blocks Plugin and can be used in blocks to offer
the WordPress Author to choose either wordpress posts, pages or categories.

Features

• The custom control dynamically renders a select with options based on the chosen entityType
• Available entity types are
  • Post Type
  • Taxonomy Type
  • Post (Default or Custom post types)
  • Page
  • Taxonomy (Tags, Categories, Custom Taxonomy)
• The select options can be restricted to use a certain entry as parent

Restrictions

Select Multiple Restrictions

• The option “Select Multiple” is only available for the entity type Post / Pages / Taxonomy

Max Item Restriction

The custom control is using the getEntityRecords method.

• This method can load a maximum of 100 entities and render them as dropdown options
• When choosing the entity type Page, depending on the number of pages you have, the first time, the call might take
  a while, as the whole page object get’s loaded
• To use a custom taxonomy type, make sure to activate the REST option in the register_taxonomy function by adding 'show_in_rest' => true,
• Parent Entity Restriction does only work for Pages / Categories / Custom Taxonomies, as other Entity Types (e.g. Posts / Tags) cannot be nested
• For the entityType post-type, an ignore list excludes all wordpress related post types:
  • pages, media, blocks, menu-items, navigation, templates, template-parts, lazyblocks, lazyblocks_templates

Usage

You can use the custom control exactly how you use normal controls for lazy blocks