Possible to have Featured posts and Popular posts blocks on category page?

In that case, use GB’s query loop block, and your client can set up the featured tag, and use the Query loop taxonomy parameter to pull the featured taged posts in the query loop.

And the same goes for the popular posts.

I see, this way should work in the post, but not the archive pages.

Try this method:

1. Add a css class to the grid block of the query loop, eg. my-css-class.

2. Remove both of the taxonomy parameters from the query loop.

3. Add this PHP code, change featured to the actual tag slug.

add_filter( 'generateblocks_query_loop_args', function( $query_args, $attributes ) {
    // Check if it's a category archive page
    if ( is_category() ) {
        // Get the current category
        $current_category = get_queried_object();

        // Check if the current category has the 'my-css-class' class
        if ( ! empty( $attributes['className'] ) &&
             strpos( $attributes['className'], 'my-css-class' ) !== false ) {

            // Modify tax_query to target the current category and posts with the 'featured' tag
            $query_args['tax_query'][] = array(
                'taxonomy' => 'category',
                'field'    => 'term_id',
                'terms'    => $current_category->term_id,
                'operator' => 'IN',
            );

            $query_args['tax_query'][] = array(
                'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
                'field'    => 'slug',
                'terms'    => 'featured',
                'operator' => 'IN',
            );

            // Set the relation to 'AND'
            $query_args['tax_query']['relation'] = 'AND';

        }
    }

    return $query_args;
}, 10, 2 );

Glad to hear that 🙂