Roadmap

Roadmap

Where HOF is going. Dates are aspirational, not promises. Status is updated as commits land — the Changelog has the granular history.

shipped in 1.0.0

HOF 1.0.0 is feature-complete. Everything below is in the box today.

• Brand system locked
• Architecture decided + documented
• Plugin scaffold (PSR-4, Composer, Vite, PHP 8.2+)
• Docker dev environment (WP + Woo + MySQL 8, bound to localhost)
• React 18 admin SPA on @wordpress/components
• Vanilla JS public runtime + URL-synced facet store
• Renderer + REST endpoints under /wp-json/hof/v1/
• All 16 facet types (catalog) — checkbox, radio, dropdown, toggle, hierarchy, range slider, date range, search, fluid swatches, swipe deck, spin-the-wheel, intersection matrix, saved bin, Ask, Visual DNA, pagination
• Indexer: real term / meta indexing, date → epoch conversion, background reindex (Action Scheduler + wp_cron fallback)
• First-class WooCommerce integration: auto-detect + one-click add
• Admin UI: full CRUD with drag-reorder + validation
• WP-CLI: wp hof reindex, wp hof status, wp hof facets
• Custom-field sources: ACF, Meta Box, Pods
• Page builder integrations: Gutenberg, Bricks, Elementor, Divi, Breakdance
• Licensing for premium distribution
• Performance: resolve_ids() ~54ms p95 and full reindex ~19s on 100k products
• Security & quality scaffold (CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, branch ruleset)
• CI: PHP + JS lint, markdown lint, build
• GitHub Wiki (these pages)

post-1.0

• HOF Pro (premium features TBD)
• Migration tool: FacetWP → HOF
• Migration tool: WP Grid Builder → HOF
• Multilingual: WPML + Polylang adapters
• Headless mode (REST-first, no WP rendering)
• Saved searches (per-user)
• Ask facet v2 — deeper relevance over the index (see the Ask facet page)
• Visual DNA v4 — true visual similarity via image embeddings (shape, pattern, texture), and weight-aware palette ranking (a product whose palette mostly matches outranks a product with a single near-match)

what we're not building

To keep HOF focused, we're explicitly not building:

• A full search engine replacement (use Algolia, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• A page builder (use one of the good ones)
• A theme (HOF is theme-agnostic and proud of it)

want to influence this?

• 👍 Vote on issues with reactions
• 💡 Open a feature request with a real use case
• 🛠️ Build it and PR it (see Contributing)