Hi Brajesh

I think/hope it should work anywhere that Elementor Pro allows you to use a custom query, but I’ll get back to you if I come across anywhere that it doesn’t 😉

Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Thank you so much. I’m pleased to report that both of the options you’ve suggested seem to work perfectly.

In waiting for your reply, I’d also put together my own custom query for the Elementor posts widget along very similar lines and which I thought I would post here for reference and/or just in case it’s of interest to anyone else…

add_action( 'elementor/query/my_custom', function( $query ) {
// Get current meta Query
	$meta_query = $query->get( 'meta_query' );

	// If there is no meta query when this filter runs, it should be initialized as an empty array.
	if ( ! $meta_query ) {
		$meta_query = [];
	}

	// Append our meta query
	$meta_query[] = [
		'key' => '_bblgroups_group_id',
		'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS',
	];

	$query->set( 'meta_query', $meta_query );    
} );

Note: I did wonder if I’d need to do the same for “Related Posts” widgets but so far I can’t find any evidence of group posts appearing as related to personal posts. Not sure if this is by luck or design(!) but I’ll monitor just in case.

As always, many thanks for your assistance.
Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Thank you for your thoughts and I will give them some consideration.

Both BuddyBlog and Events Manager do what they’re designed to do really well, and my challenge all along has been to combine the best elements of both whilst presenting them in a coherent, user-friendly way (ideally with a single tab in the personal and group profiles).

I think I’m still going to struggle to list entries which are, let’s say, “pending”, according to BuddyBlog using an EM shortcode but will definitely explore that option a bit more.

I really am very grateful for all your support which I do appreciate is rather beyond the scope of your plugins themselves 😉

Regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

Thank you so much. I had a feeling that might be the code I needed. I already tried using it previously but that was before removing the Events Manager scope so of course, nothing was working at that stage!

What I’m actually hoping to do is filter out past events, which will require a query on the post meta but I’m used to working with WP_Query so that hopefully shouldn’t be a problem.

I really do appreciate all your help and patience, and hopefully won’t need to trouble you on this particular aspect again 😉

Regards
Nik

Thank you so much Brajesh. That works perfectly.

With regard to filtering out past dates, I completely understand this is outside of your scope but wonder if you could possibly just point me in the right direction with a simpler example eg. let’s say I wanted to only show posts from a particular category on a profile…

I came across a snippet you’d posted here – https://buddydev.com/snippets/projects/buddyblog/ which seems to do just that but it uses the hook buddyblog_show_posts_on_profile which doesn’t seem to exist in BuddyBlog Pro or BuddyBlog Groups. Is there a similar hook I could use to add a filter to personal and group profiles?

Or perhaps I should edit the relevant templates (eg. posts.php) and somehow filter that instead?

Regards
Nik