Customize the Query used in ‘Kleo Posts’

[kcurlsjr]

Hello,

I am using the membership plugin to restrict access to posts based on membership plans.  It works well on the posts page and using ‘pre_get_posts’ action hook I am able to customize the WP query  to exclude the restricted posts.

However on the home page , we have the ‘Recent Blog Post’ Segment which is nothing but ‘Kleo Posts’ element. Is there a way I can use ‘pre_get_posts’ action hook to customize the query used in ‘Kleo Posts’ to filter out certain post IDs that should not be displayed to a user without the right membership.

Please do let me know how this can be done. Also let me know of any information you need from my end to process this ticket.

Thank You

[Laura]

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[Radu]

Hi,

We are using the Visual composer logic for that shortcode and you can inspire from here : https://theme.co/apex/forums/topic/exclude-category-from-recent-posts-in-visual-composer/

Let me know
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R

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[kcurlsjr]

Hi,

Thank you @Laura and @Radu for your response.

@Radu I tried the solution suggested , however I don’t know why but because ‘Kleo Posts’ is a custom query, the method I am calling on action hook ‘pre_get_posts’ is unable to filter the query.
Please find below the code I am using to hide restricted posts:
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add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘pmsc_exclude_post_from_query’ );
function pmsc_exclude_post_from_query( $query ) {

if( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && function_exists(‘pms_is_post_restricted’) ) {
$args = $query->query_vars;
$args[‘suppress_filters’] = true;
$args[‘posts_per_page’] = get_option( ‘posts_per_page’ );
$posts = get_posts($args);

$ids = wp_list_pluck( $posts, ‘ID’ );
$restricted_ids = array_filter($ids,’pms_is_post_restricted’);

$query->set( ‘post__not_in’, $restricted_ids );
}
}
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In the above code : pms_is_post_restricted is a function defined inside the membership plugin files that checks if the current user has any posts they are restricted from . Then by using array_filter we are able to get a list of post IDs that should not be included in the query.

One possible solution:

Can a hook to be added inside: kleo/vc_templates/vc_posts_grid.php over the WP_Query args? If so then I can modify the query in kleo posts before its called.

Please do let me know.

Thank You

[Radu]

Hi,

If you need to change that logic you can copy this file ( wp-content/themes/kleo/vc_templates/vc_posts_grid.php ) to child theme ( wp-content/themes/kleo-child/vc_templates/vc_posts_grid.php ) and make your desired changes.

Doing changes in the child theme using your custom $args will result the same without using filter or action hook.

Cheers
R

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