rachaelburke

Solved my issue – was the Post Types Order plugin causing problems (had to turn off the ‘auto’ sort feature where it adds its menu order sort into EVERY query…. then manually set every post widget to sort correctly as the occasional one was wrong).

Auto Sort

 If checked, the plug-in automatically update the WordPress queries to use the new order ( No code update is necessarily )

If only certain queries need to use the custom sort, keep this unchecked and include ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’ into query parameters.
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Same issue here! Dynamic order by on custom fields used to work, but isn’t know. Unsure if this is Elementor or this plugin causing the issue?

I have this working with a custom taxonomy. I have buttons/badges that hide and display depending on a category.

Query looks like:

Dynamic Tag -> Post Terms (then click on Post Terms and choose your Category to use, and set the separator to comma if not already, as wordpress outputs them with a comma usually)
Condition: Contains
Compare Type: Text
Conditional Value: <Category>

The value of the category text is the display value, not the slug.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by rachaelburke.

Hey after a few more tries, it’s finally completed. However my web host says I’m about to hit I/O limits…

Any idea what the problem might have been? Don’t want to get stuck like this again!