Roadmap

Roadmap

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

shipped (pre-alpha)

• 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/
• Facet types: Checkbox, Radio, Dropdown, Toggle, Hierarchy, Range Slider, Date Range, Search, Color Swatch, Swipe Deck
• View facets: 2D Slider, Ask (conversational, BYOK Anthropic key), Visual DNA (drop/URL/eyedrop → indexed top-N palette + MIN-ΔE76 ranking, with snap-to-term fallback)
• Security & quality scaffold (CodeQL, Dependabot, secret scanning, branch ruleset)
• CI: PHP + JS lint, markdown lint, build
• GitHub Wiki (these pages)

next up

Goal: land a public alpha. ✅ The alpha is live (six tagged releases so far).

• Indexer foundation: real term / meta indexing
• Date → epoch conversion for Date Range (v0.6.0-alpha)
• First-class WooCommerce integration: auto-detect + one-click add (v0.6.0-alpha)
• Admin UI: full CRUD with drag-reorder + validation (v0.4.0-alpha)
• WP-CLI: wp hof reindex, wp hof status, wp hof facets (v0.6.0-alpha)
• Background reindex via wp_cron chunking (v0.6.0-alpha)
• Licensing scaffold for premium distribution (v0.5.0-alpha)
• Documentation pass: install, quick start, first facet
• Page-builder verification: smoke-test the shortcode inside Elementor / Bricks / Divi / Breakdance / Oxygen widgets

beta · v0.5

Goal: feature parity with the basics of FacetWP.

• All planned facet types (catalog) finished
• Listing builder (templates for results)
• Display templates (per-facet markup overrides)
• ACF integration
• Custom post type support
• Page builder integrations: Gutenberg, Bricks
• CLI: wp hof index, wp hof export

1.0

Goal: ship it.

• Performance benchmarks vs FacetWP / WPGB
• Migration tool: FacetWP → HOF
• Migration tool: WP Grid Builder → HOF
• Page builder integrations: Elementor, Oxygen
• Full hook reference
• Extension API (custom facet types via PHP)
• Hardened, audited, ready for production

post-1.0

• HOF Pro (premium features TBD)
• Multilingual: WPML + Polylang adapters
• Headless mode (REST-first, no WP rendering)
• Saved searches (per-user)
• Ask v2 — semantic embeddings over the index, not just structured tool calls
• 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)