[Resolved] Replacing the query in a View via PHP

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[Saul Baizman]

Hi there,

I want to do something a little bit strange in Toolset: I want to create a slider (View) but feed its content via PHP code. Why do this? Because the typical options available in the GUI dashboard interface for Views don't provide the level of flexibility I need from a WP_Query object. In other words, I have a very complex query which I can't express through the visual interface. However, I want to make use of Toolset's ability to output the information in a pre-built format (in this case, a slider).

Is there a way to do this? For example, should I hook into pre_get_posts and just replace all of the arguments?

Thank you.

Saul

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

You can use the view's filter hook "wpv_filter_query" in order to override the query filter argument on fly.
- https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_query

Where using above hook you can hook in meta_query or tax_query or any other possible arguments.

[Saul Baizman]

Thanks, Minesh! I appreciate your help!

Saul