Post slider with custom query

[mmnmbk]

Hi,

I’d like to seek support to make a post slider with custom type posts data. (All in one event calendar)
Could you advice how I can set Custom query to get custom type posts data with their category name?

Here are conditions:
post_type=event_post_type &&
taxonomy_name = events_categories &&
term = family-events

Also I would like to take posts data as well in one query. Is it possible?

Thanks,

Topic

[Jason Bobich]

Hello,

I believe it would be formatted something like this:

post_type={post_type}&{taxonomy}={term}

So, assuming what you stated above is correct, it would be like this:

post_type=event_post_type&events_categories=family-events

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

[mmnmbk]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your comment.
I tried the query, which you gave me. Now I can retrieve event data but it seems that the taxonomy is ignored… as a custom query ” events_categories=family-events” cannot get any data. Taxonomy&term are correct for sure.

Do you have any idea?

[Jason Bobich]

You could try doing an actual tax query through PHP from your child theme, using this basic concept:

http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/extending-the-custom-query/

Except, in this case, you’d want to use the filter “themeblvd_slider_auto_args” something like:

[post_slider query="my_unique_key"]

/**
 * Custom query for post slider
 */
function my_custom_posts_query( $query, $args ){
	if( $args['query'] == 'my_unique_key' ){
		$query = array( 
			'post_type' => 'event_post_type',
			'tax_query' => array(
				array(
					'taxonomy' => 'events_categories',
					'field' => 'slug',
					'terms' => 'family-events'
				)
			)
		);
	}
	return $query;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_posts_args', 'my_custom_posts_query', 10, 2 );

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

[mmnmbk]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your reply. I added the custom query function (my_custom_posts_query) to my functions.php and call the shortcode from page. but it didn’t work. The 5 latest POST data is shown.
Also I tried to set “Custom Query” on “Where to pull post from?” option & set “my_unique_key” on “Custom Query” option under Post slider at page builder. but no luck….

I cleared value on Custom Query option as blank. The 5 latest POST data is shown as well.
I modified the function to take data with other term, but the 5 latest POST data is shown as well.

Sorry again.. do you have any idea? Appreciate your support. Thanks.

[Jason Bobich]

These are the only ways I know to query posts by a custom post type and taxonomy.

[Jason Bobich]

Is this the plugin you’re using?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/

I just downloaded it and the registered custom post type is ai1ec_event and the associated, registered taxonomies are:

1. events_categories
2. events_tags
3. events_feeds

Could the issue be that you had the post type wrong?

[Author]

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