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[wpdm_packages] – WP_Query in a shortcode for download manager packages

Use this shortcode you can query all downloads/packages, and you can use relevant parameters as like as WP_Query as mentioned below You may also use Gutenberg Block instead of writing this shortcode, you will have the visual option to configure each parameter.

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Example short-code to query any author's downloads:

[wpdm_packages author="1" login="1" paging="1" orderby="field name" order="asc or desc" items_per_page="10" template="Link Template ID" cols=4 colspad=2 colsphone=1]

Parameters:

Authentication Parameter

  • login (int) - optional, valid value is0 or 1. You can skip this parameter, but if you use login=1, the shortcode will show a login for the visitors who are not logged in.

UI Parameters

  • toolbar (int) - optional, valid value is0 or 1, show to hide toolbar, default value 1
  • title (string) - optional, can be used to add custom title
  • desc (string) - optional, can be used to add a custom description
  • icon (url) - optional, can be used to add a custom icon URL
  • icon_wdith (int) - optional, controls the icon width
  • async (int) - optional, valid value is0 or 1,  load pagination links asynchronously when set 1

Author Parameters

Show posts associated with a certain author.

  • author (int | string) - use author id or comma-separated list of IDs, exclude an author by prefixing its id with a  - sign, like -1.
  • author_name (string) - use 'user_nicename' - NOT name.

Category Parameters

Show posts associated with specific categories.

  • categories (string) - use category slug or id or name ( multiple categories should be separated by comma ).
  • include_children (int - 0 or 1 ) – Whether or not to include children
  • operator (string) – Operator to test. Possible values are INAND. The default value is IN.
  • cat_field (string) - Name of the field you are using the value of the categories parameter. Possible value is term_id or slug or name, the default value is slug
  • xcats (string) - To exclude the given categories, the value should be category slug, multiple slugs are separated by commas

Custom Taxonomy Parameters

You can filter packages by custom taxonomy terms

  • tax (string) - taxonomy name, multiple taxonomy name separated by a vertical bar, ex: tax1|tax2
  • terms - term id, multiple ids should be separated by a comma, terms groups of multiple taxonomies should be separated by a vertical bar, ex: tax1-term1,tax1-term2|tax2-term1,tax2-term2

Tag Parameters

Show posts associated with certain tags.

  • tags (string) - use tag slug.
  • tag_id (int) - use tag id.
  • tag__and (array) - use tag ids.
  • tag__in (array) - use tag ids.
  • tag__not_in (array) - use tag ids.
  • tag_slug__and (array) - use tag slugs.
  • tag_slug__in (array) - use tag slugs.

Other Parameters

We are adding support for all WP_Query parameters, so far, it also supports the following parameters

  • post__in
  • post__not_in
  • author
  • author_name
  • author__not_in
  • day
  • week
  • month
  • year

Live Demo

Last updated on Nov 5, 2021

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