PHP Query Editor for Terms ignores include parameter

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Hi,

I’m trying to build a dynamic taxonomy interlinking section in Bricks 2.3.9.

Setup:

  • Query Loop
  • Type: Terms
  • Taxonomy: base_alcoholica
  • PHP Query Editor enabled

My goal is to display only the taxonomy terms selected in an ACF Taxonomy field.

As a simple test, I tried:

return [
‘taxonomy’ => ‘base_alcoholica’,
‘include’ => [1],
‘hide_empty’ => false,
];

However, the Query Loop still returns all terms instead of only the term with ID 1.

I also tried:

$query_vars[‘include’] = [1];
$query_vars[‘hide_empty’] = false;

return $query_vars;

with the same result.

Questions:

  1. Does the PHP Query Editor for a Terms query return the final WP_Term_Query arguments?
  2. Is the ‘include’ parameter supported?
  3. Are the returned query vars merged with Bricks internal query vars?
  4. Is the recommended approach to use the bricks/terms/query_vars filter instead?
  5. What is the recommended way to query an ACF Taxonomy field and display only those selected terms inside a Bricks Terms Query Loop?

Thanks!

2

Hi Nico,
I just tried it in 2.3.9, 2.3.10 and 2.4 beta 2 and can’t replicate the issue.

My custom taxonomy is “genre,” and the term with ID 14 is “Comedy” (but it works with any other existing term ID, too).

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Are you sure you have a term with the ID 1 in base_alcoholica?
You can check the IDs by hovering over the term names:

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3

Hi,

Yes problem solved.

Thanks again!