I’d like to see more dynamic blog post component options added in the next updates, like the blog post number and what tags show up in any given article.
Particularly for my purposes, I’m making a website for my webcomic and on the page where I can access all my episodes and I’d like to have the option to include headshot pictures of the characters that appear in a comic to show up in the white space pictured below. Not sure how it could be done, but would be a nice touch. The characters featured in each issue are different, so ideally I’d like to have some sort of dynamic functionality there.
That seems like a great use for the new blog components. Although there isn’t a way to show the pictures at the moment, I think that the custom fields idea could solve it.
It’s still early but this is roughly how it would work:
You will create a custom field named “Characters” which will be a dropdown that lets you pick multiple values, and configure it with your character’s names.
Inside blog loop, you will add an image for each of your character’s headshots.
In the component options, we will add a settings group called “Blog Loop Conditional Display” or similar. There you will set each of the images to display only if that character is selected in the “Characters” dropdown.
This is just the initial idea, we may think of an easier way to implement this type of functionality. An alternative to “Blog Loop Conditional Display” would be if Blog Loop adds all the selected values as CSS classes, and we leave it to the user to use CSS to style each card and show/hide elements.
We would love to hear others’ thoughts about this.
I like this idea. I feel like it would go great with creating “Tagged” content.
Such as adding tags similar to “Development”, “Ideas”, “General”, etc. and show the content related to those tags in the Blog Loop.
It would make it easier to manage a Blog site, or even a Portfolio.
Edit:
Could you also consider making it where we can also unlink specific elements in the blog loop? I was attempting to add a link into one and forgot it will populate in all Loop Items.
(Attempted to make tags that way by using multiple folders and pages)
Adding support for tags would be a good addition. This can even be used by @hjoshm instead of the custom fields that I proposed, each character can have their own tag.
Blog Loop is a dynamic collection and unlocking elements inside it is not possible, I am afraid. It is best to wait with the tag implementation until we add support for it in the next major update.
I’m glad I mentioned that I was going to write an entire post about possible additions (“Authors”, “Tags” and “Including / Excluding Subfolders from the Loop”), but I was waiting for someone to post something similar. So, I can mention it that way instead.
I was about to create a post suggesting to create a tag component because I was struggling with this today. I can’t define a category for each blog posts because it changes for all the posts to the same tag.
I was going to write an entire post about possible additions (“Authors”, “Tags” and “Including / Excluding Subfolders from the Loop”), but I was waiting for someone to post something similar. So, I can mention it that way instead. 
