Last Updated: November 15, 2022 | Reading Time: < 1 minute
Elementor has provided a good widget for you to display content from the regular posts or other custom post types. But sometimes, the default options just not enough, the post widget didn’t provide you a complete option.
Luckily, Elementor has provided “query id” for this purpose, it works exactly like the “pre_get_post”. Here’s how:
Add Post Element
After add the element, go to query tab and add query id name.
on the other hand to control the query, add this code to the functions.php:
add_action( 'elementor/query/customquery', function( $query ) {
// Set the custom post type
$query->set( 'post_type', [ 'flora', 'fauna' ] );
// Set for the posts_per_page
$query->set( 'posts_per_page', 12 );
// Display only posts by certain author
$query->set( 'author', 4 ); /* 4 is the ID of the author */
// Set for the custom field
$meta_query[] = [
'key' => 'kebutuhan_cahaya',
'value' => [ 'Sedang' ],
'compare' => 'in', ];
$query->set( 'meta_query', $meta_query );
} );You can refer to the WP_Query documentation for complete parameters.
7 Responses
Actually you are talking about the Posts Widget, not the Post Widget
You’re right, thank you for the correction.
Hello. I want to display the posts based on their modified (update) date. But this query is not working properly. Can you write a code for this?
$query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘modified’ );
Did you get any error message?
Hi, how would you use query->set when wanting to query a post_author. For example by the post_authors user role? Finding it really tough to apply! Your help would be very appreciated.
Thanks for the question, You can use the Author Parameters available:
Or
You can review the available query for author on WordPress Developer handbook.
To query posts based on user role, you can review this code, I haven’t test it by my self:
$users = new WP_User_Query( array( 'role' => 'role_name' ) ); $results = $users->get_results(); $user_ids = array(); foreach( $results as $result ) { $user_ids[] = (int) $result->ID; } $user_ids = ! empty( $user_ids ) ? $user_ids : PHP_INT_MAX; $query->set( 'author__in', $user_ids );The code above is to retrieve the id’s by user WP_User_Query then the result as array can be use as value to ‘author__in’ query parameter.