Title: Set Initial Value for Dropdown
Last modified: November 29, 2022

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# Set Initial Value for Dropdown

 *  Resolved [bottlecapnapkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bottlecapnapkin/)
 * (@bottlecapnapkin)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-initial-value-for-dropdown/)
 * Hi – I love your plugin. It is very powerful and configurable. I’d like to set
   an initial value for one of the 3 select elements in my filter displayed using
   a shortcode. Is that possible?

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 *  Plugin Support [mediawebster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediawebster/)
 * (@mediawebster)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-initial-value-for-dropdown/#post-16247443)
 * Hello
 * Unfortunately no
 * But you can use links with a search query to this page – [https://wp-filter.com/document/constant-link-extension/](https://wp-filter.com/document/constant-link-extension/)
 *  Thread Starter [bottlecapnapkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bottlecapnapkin/)
 * (@bottlecapnapkin)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-initial-value-for-dropdown/#post-16252444)
 * Ok. I did notice the constant link extension in my research, but unfortunately
   I don’t think it will work for this project. The goal was to initially show a
   preferred set of items based on multiple variables, but then allow the user to
   modify that to their needs. Not a major issue but it would be a nice feature 
   to have for some use cases. Thanks for your help, and your work and support of
   this great plugin!
 *  Plugin Support [mediawebster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediawebster/)
 * (@mediawebster)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-initial-value-for-dropdown/#post-16255334)
 * Hello
 * Yes, I will pass this to the developers.

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 * Last reply from: [mediawebster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediawebster/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-initial-value-for-dropdown/#post-16255334)
 * Status: resolved