Savvy Posts Grid
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High-performance Elementor posts grid with AJAX search, dynamic filters, pagination, and template-based cards.
Savvy Posts Grid is a developer-grade posts grid widget for the Elementor page builder, built for large sites. It renders posts/pages/CPTs in a responsive grid and layers on:
- AJAX search — live, 300ms-debounced, preserves active filters.
- AJAX pagination — numbered, load-more, or infinite scroll.
- Off-canvas filters — slide-in panel (left/right), mobile friendly.
- Dynamic filter builder — native fields (categories, tags, author, date, post type) and auto-detected ACF fields (select, checkbox, radio, taxonomy, true/false, number, text, relationship, post object), each as a dropdown, checkbox list, radio buttons, button group, or toggle switch, with AND/OR logic and combined tax_query / meta_query generation.
- Elementor template cards — render each post through a saved Elementor (or Elementor Pro) template; dynamic tags resolve against the current post.
- Grid, list, or masonry — pick a layout mode; columns and gap are responsive per breakpoint.
- Performance — query + AJAX response caching via a namespaced transient generation, no_found_rows for load-more/infinite, bulk cache priming, and debounced requests. Built for 10,000+ posts and 100+ filter values.
- Security — nonce verification, capability checks, full input sanitisation, output escaping, and server-side (untrusted-client) settings resolution so query arguments can never be tampered with.
Credits
Every bundled asset is original work by the plugin author, licensed GPLv2 or later along with the rest of the plugin. No third-party images are included.
The fallback thumbnail shown for posts with no featured image is assets/img/placeholder.svg. Point it somewhere else with:
add_filter( 'spgrid/placeholder_image', fn() => get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/img/fallback.jpg' );
Return an empty string from that filter to hide the image slot entirely on posts that have no featured image.