Add load more button in Query block

[ntsekouras]

What problem does this address?

A load more button could be useful in a Query block in cases that a user doesn't want to have full pagination of the results through QueryPagination blocks.

This functionality should take into account the query parameters of the currently used Query block and should have at least for start an option of how many posts to load when clicked.

[edwinho89]

+1 to this. Was comparing with Blog Post Block which had the load more button, so perhaps an option to select either one of them?

[dkjensen]

+1

[dkjensen]

@ntsekouras I ended up having to put together a workaround but would love to see this incorporated natively at some point

https://gist.github.com/dkjensen/5190c554420ea2f19987a3f31ac95785

[ntsekouras]

Thanks @dkjensen ! It would be great if you opened a PR here and try this out! This way more contributors will be involved and things will move forward.

[jffng]

cc @scruffian I was chatting with @beafialho about some of our theme designs, and thought this would still be useful.

[mateuswetah]

Would love to see this too. I imagined it would make sense to be a variation of the current pagination block

[cuemarie]

+1 I think this would be a great addition to the Query block - offering a nice alternative to the Pagination block.

[marianearchimbaud]

+1! A user asked for this feature on a live chat session some weeks ago too

[donalirl]

+1

[i11za]

+1 user request

[kuropixel]

+1 user request

[KelseyMcAuley]

+1

[mateuswetah]

Not sure if related, but maybe this will be possible with the proposed Interactivity API.

[wpexplorer]

+1 ;)

[i11za]

+1 user request

[Jaccuse]

+1

[hannahmwool]

+1

I have been using @dkjensen workaround and it works great but doesn't work if the "Inherit query" is enabled on the query loop block because it ignores all Get requests. Working on a workaround but this would definitely be amazing to be added officially. Thanks!