{"id":2132,"date":"2021-12-29T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T09:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/?post_type=bricks_article&#038;p=2132"},"modified":"2023-02-14T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:27:09","slug":"filter-bricks-posts-merge_query","status":"publish","type":"bricks_article","link":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/article\/filter-bricks-posts-merge_query\/","title":{"rendered":"Filter: bricks\/posts\/merge_query"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since Bricks 1.3.7 you&#8217;ll be able to decide if a certain element query should be merged with the WordPress main query, in the archive or search templates, using the following filter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code prettyprint\"><code>add_filter( 'bricks\/posts\/merge_query', function( $merge, $element_id ) {\n  if ( $element_id === 'wghgco' ) {\n    return false;\n  }\n\n  return $merge;\n}, 10, 2 );<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The filter callback receives two arguments: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><code>$merge<\/code> is a boolean variable indicating whether the query should be merged or not (default: true)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>$element_id<\/code> is a string containing the element ID<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is triggered for all the Bricks elements containing one internal WP_Query query like the Posts and the Carousel element, or any other element where the Query Loop is enabled (Container, Slider, Accordion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"callout-blue\">Starting from Bricks 1.7, you can achieve the same result by utilizing the &#8220;Disable Query Merge&#8221; option in the <a href=\"\/article\/query-loop\/#posts-query\">Query Loop<\/a>, without the need for a PHP filter. Use this filter for more advanced situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"find-element-id\">How to find the element ID?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each element in Bricks has a unique ID. You may find the element ID when editing the element and looking into the Global CSS classes input. By default, it shows the element HTML ID (e.g. <code>#bricks-element-wghgco<\/code>). For the purpose of this filter, we only need the last portion of the string, the six-character long element ID (e.g. <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><code>wghgco<\/code>).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"368\" data-lightbox=\"true\"  src=\"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-09.19.37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-09.19.37.png 326w, https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2021-12-29-at-09.19.37-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Bricks 1.3.7 you&#8217;ll be able to decide if a certain element query should be merged with the WordPress main query, in the archive or search templates, using the following filter: The filter callback receives two arguments: This is triggered for all the Bricks elements containing one internal WP_Query query like the Posts and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":101,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/bricks_article\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/bricks_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/bricks_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/bricks_article\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/bricks_article\/2132\/revisions\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.bricksbuilder.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}