adverts_manage by category

I am not sure what do you mean? Would you like to allow editing ads from one category only, disable category changing or something else?

I’d like to be able to edit, view, delete ads in a particular category. So either something like [advert_manage category=”whatever”] or the ability to filter the adds by category through the advert_manage interface.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by spike210957.

Without modifying original source code the only way to do that would be to hook into WP_Query, for example, using pre_get_posts filter, in your filter function check if you are on page with [adverts_manage] shortcode (you can do this using is_page() function and if the queried object is ‘advert’. Now if all conditions are met you can modify the query to to return results only from selected advert_category.

How to use the pre_get_posts filter you can find out here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts

This is working well the only slight problem is that I’m losing the menu on pages where I change the query. For example I have a category called suppliers and a page called ‘manage-suppliers’ which has [adverts_manage]

I then catch this page and change $query like so:

$query->set(‘advert_category’, ‘suppliers’);

The page displays the right info but no menu from the theme?

Most likely you will need some additional conditions to check if the filter is run on a query in [adverts_manage] (and not in the query in top menu).

One way do do that is to check if queried post_type is equal to advert, the code below should do that

if( $query->get( 'post_type' ) == "advert" ) {
    // do something here ...
}

Spot on! Thanks Greg