Hi corinnepritchard,
Absolutely! That’s fairly simple, but is done within the shortcode instead of the query interface.
Example:
[query slug=”my-query” args=”p={{post:ID}}”]
There are a few more examples in the FAQ http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-wrangler/faq/ .
Let me know how this works out for you,
Jonathan
Edit: whoops, used wrong token. Should be {{post:ID}}
Oh! Thank you for replying so quickly.
And just saw your edit – phew! Was worried it wasn’t working.
Is there a full list of those arguments somewhere as ‘p=’ etc, isn’t necessarily intuitive? (couldn’t see one on the link you gave but may just be being blind).
Yours,
Corinne
Sure, there is a reference (sort of).
Those arguments all come from the WP_Query class. http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters
Any parameter that is not an array should work.
For example, to limit by author:
The ‘author’ parameter accepts string values, so it will work.
$query = new WP_Query( 'author=2,6,17,38' );
As a QW query —
[query slug='test' args='author=2,6,17,38']
The ‘author__in’ parameter requires an array value, so it will not work:
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'author__in' => array( 2, 6 ) ) );
For your case, I used the “p” parameter from here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Post_.26_Page_Parameters
You should be able to use anything that takes a string for it’s value.
Hope that helps!
Let me know if you have any more questions,
Jonathan
Just to follow up with some more explanation.
The {{post:ID}} I had you use is a “contextual token”. Meaning it’s value is derived from the context in which it is used. They are perfect for dynamically altering a query based on where it is displayed.
But you can also use explicit values if you don’t need the query to be contextually dynamic. For example, in the above “author=1,2,17” example, those values are not contextual, and will alter the query the same way no matter where it is shown.
