Adding hooks for developers

Hi dcooney,

I noticed that there are effectly no hooks that can be used by developers.

For my case, I need a hook to the alm_query_posts function.
I need to dynamically exclude certain post IDs and therefore cannot use the options provided by the shortcode.

Therefore, I would need a hook to the function where you query the news posts.

I used the following as workaround:

function wp_ajax_override_excluded_post_ids() {
	// get newest featured
	$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'post',
		'meta_key' => 'is_featured',
		'meta_value' => '1',
		'posts_per_page' => 1,
	);

	$posts = get_posts( $args );

	if( empty( $posts ) )
		return;

	// get first post
	$post = $posts[0];

	$post_ID = $post->ID;

	$_GET['post__not_in'] = $post_ID;
}
add_action( 'wp_ajax_alm_query_posts', 'wp_ajax_override_excluded_post_ids', -100 );

This solution is in my optinion not optimal, because first it relies on the fact that you dont change the ajax action call, second the indexes on the $_GET are not changed by you and third you dont change your action’s priority.

Therefore, I would love to have filters to override certain variables and maybe additionally have a hook to change the complete ajax query (i.e. return a custom array result).

I think these changes are only marginal for you and they do not prevent anyone buying your premium plugins.
In fact, I plan to buy the complete package in the near future as soon as I have the OK from my customer.

I think your plugin is great and this would make it even greater for developers.

Best
M

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