Roadmap

Roadmap

Where HOF is going. Dates are aspirational, not promises.

now (pre-alpha)

• Brand system locked
• Architecture decided
• Plugin scaffold (PSR-4, Composer, Vite)
• Docker dev environment
• Basic admin shell (React + @wordpress/components)
• Indexer foundation
• First facet type: Checkbox

alpha · v0.1

Goal: a usable filter on a Woo shop page.

• Checkbox + Radio + Dropdown facet types
• Range slider (numeric)
• Frontend Preact app
• URL state sync
• WooCommerce integration (categories, attributes, price)
• Basic admin UI for creating facet sets
• Documentation: install, quick start, first facet

beta · v0.5

Goal: feature parity with the basics of FacetWP.

• All planned facet types (catalog)
• Listing builder (templates for results)
• Display templates (per-facet markup overrides)
• ACF integration
• Custom post type support
• Page builder integrations: Gutenberg, Bricks
• REST API public + versioned
• 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)
• AI-assisted facet suggestions (yes really)

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)