Title: Add custom WP_Query loop attributes
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Add custom WP_Query loop attributes

 *  [Julian_Kingman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julian_kingman/)
 * (@julian_kingman)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-wp_query-loop-attributes/)
 * Hi there,
 * could you add custom WP_Query attributes to the widget? I coded it locally, it
   looks like this:
 *     ```
       //custom wp-query arguments
           if( ! empty ($args['wp_query'])){
               $string = $args['wp_query'];
               $a = explode(';', $string);
               foreach ($a as $result) {
                   $b = explode(',', $result);
                   $array[$b[0]] = $b[1];
               }
               $query = array_merge($query, $array);
           }
       ```
   
 * It allows filtering for custom fields, or other miscellaneous things, separated
   by commas and semicolons. I used it to filter woocommerce products by featured(“
   meta_key,_featured;meta_value,yes”).
 * Thanks for a great plugin!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-wp_query-loop-attributes/)
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