@amber
Tips on patterns that conditionally appear.
I have a pattern that should be visible on blog posts older than 2024, but having a reliable something that can be added without worrying of whether an update will break it would be nice.

@murteza interesting, what are you referring to as a pattern? do you have a url i can see?

@amber

In theme editor, I made patterns for each banner kind of thing I want to grab attention to before or after a post, such as "outdated content" or "This is part of X series". I then add those patterns to single-post in theme, and manually set the conditions for each of them. Conditions are managed by Block visibility (free) plugin and might be something like "if post metadata publish_year is not 2026, 2025 or 2024 hide content warning block". Cheapest plugin I could find that can do supposedly to that by comparing current date to post's modified-date is asking for 69 $/year, which is outside my budget. It has more features of course, such as AI powered editing when a ChatGPT API token is porvided, so that is not part of the price tag either.

Examples of some of the conditional blocks that should be easier to manage or insert:
https://murtezayesil.ca/adb_vendor_keys-is-not-set/
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2012/mobile-phone-sms-spam-can-be/ by @geerlingguy
Old version of this blog post by @kev has the warning, but it was lost during migration:
2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20240223042303/https://kevquirk.com/synology-vs-nextcloud-which-is-better-for-a-home-server/
2026: https://web.archive.org/web/20260311005528/https://kevquirk.com/synology-vs-nextcloud-which-is-better-for-a-home-server/

I honestly don't care if some plugin runs routinely and inserts those blocks to posts' conditions when conditions met, so that they stay with the post even after some migration. Internet Archive's Wayback Machine plugin can already replace broken links in my already published posts to keep links working. Another plugin that is actively going after me and adding those blocks into that is acceptable approach in my case, but might not fit into others' user cases.

That is quiet a niche feature I think, and my current approach is quite manual. Duplicating already existing info seems unnecessary to me, and plugins that supposedly do that are too expensive for my budget. All of these were getting to me right around the time you asked. So I might have needlessly ranted to let some steam off.

@murteza ah i see you’re talking about gutenberg blocks. Do you have any dev knowledge? This could easily be done with a pho conditional, i.e if post is pre 2024, add this content automatically. I dont know of any specific plugins thatll do it tho, i usally have Gutenberg turned off