Custom Query Blocks

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 65% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ PeterBP

   2.9y ago

   An indispensable plugin for mapping archives to pages, for when archive.php won’t do the trick.

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2. ★★★★★ Jeremi

   4.2y ago

   I don’t generally use the archive mapping features, but the Post Query functionality is the best I’ve found. Would love for it to have a ‘No posts found.’ message option on the front-end, other than that it’s great!

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3. ★★★★★ Ryan Bakker

   4.3y ago

   Very handy in adding small blocks of posts from a taxonomy. Thanks guys 🙂

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4. ★★★★★ Alvaro Gois dos Santos

   5.3y ago

   I get it, it started as a custom Archive page mapping plugin. And it needed a custom query block to be useful in the block editor era. But the custom query block is useful on its own, and it’s really hard to find. A so useful feature for the block editor should be top priority. Not sure how you could make it work, but both features should be detached. Thanks for sharing your work.

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5. ★★★★★ Erica Franz

   5.5y ago

   I installed this plugin to run and output custom queries with the Gutenberg block. That aspect of the plugin is beyond fantastic. However, the mapping feature doesn’t make sense (to me) to include.. it seems like it ought to be its own separate plugin. On top of that, there was no way to disable the mapping functionality and it automatically broke all of my archives. Despite having all options for mapping set to ‘default’ my archives would either throw a 404 or return a page outputting ALL post, page and CPT content. I have no reason to create custom archives and the original reason I installed the plugin doesn’t offer enough value to justify the added work of creating and mapping archive pages.

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6. ★★★★★ Earl_D

   5.5y ago

   Very useful plugin particularly the archive page mapping feature. Really appreciate the archive mapping feature been looking for a way to do that for months. The term grid ability to draw from any and all CPT taxonomies is putsanding feature. Hopefully a few more embellishments to the grid like images will be added. This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Earl_D.

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7. ★★★★★ koronavirusu

   5.6y ago

   your ideas are great. Someday you will be very successful.

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8. ★★★★★ Joachim

   5.7y ago

   Does everything I need. Good Job!!!

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3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Custom Query Blocks <= 5.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-02-12 CVE-2026-39575 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.5.0 Patched in 5.6.0
2. Medium · 6.4 Custom Query Blocks <= 5.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-08-29 CVE-2024-44059 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.3.1 Patched in 5.4.0
3. Medium · 5.3 Custom Query Blocks <= 5.2.0 - Missing Authorization via REST Routes ↗
   2024-07-22 CVE-2024-38794 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.2.0 Patched in 5.3.0

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Translated into 5 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-08 800+ → 700+ down after 10 days in tier
2. 2026-07-29 700+ → 800+ up after 5 days in tier
3. 2026-07-24 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-07-23 700+ → 800+ up after 23 days in tier
5. 2026-06-30 800+ → 700+ down after 4 days in tier
6. 2026-06-26 700+ → 800+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2026-06-23 800+ → 700+ down after 240 days in tier
8. 2025-10-26 900+ → 800+ down after 164 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• D Disable Author Archives 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B
• Simple Yearly Archive 6K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• A Advanced Posts/Page 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
• Collapsing Archives 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
• Sitekit 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag C
• E Expanding Archives 3K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag D

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Custom Query Blocks: 700+ active installs, 4.6★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/post-type-archive-mapping