Add filter for query post result.

[mohdsayed]

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[westonruter]

@sayedwp oh, I was thinking that a plugin would add LIKE. This could be done via the customize_object_selector_post_query_vars filter like this:

add_filter( 'customize_object_selector_post_query_vars', function( $post_query_vars, $original_post_query_vars ) {
    if ( isset( $original_post_query_vars['LIKE'] ) ) {
        $post_query_vars['LIKE'] = $original_post_query_vars['LIKE'];
    }
    return $post_query_vars;
}, 10, 2 );

In the end maybe it doesn't matter. The value is still not indexed so all of them will be slow, though LIKE would be slower than the other comparisons.

[mohdsayed]

@westonruter My filter looks like this

add_filter( 'customize_object_selector_post_query_vars', function ( $post_query_vars ) {
	if ( ! empty( $post_query_vars['dropdown_args']['has_some_param'] ) ) {
		$search_term = $post_query_vars['s'];

		$post_query_vars['meta_query'] = array(
			array(
				'key' => 'my_meta_key',
				'value'   => $search_term,
				'compare' => 'LIKE',
			),
			array(
				'key' => 'my_meta_key',
				'value'   => '',
				'compare' => '!=',
			),
		);

		$post_query_vars['s'] = '';
	}

	return $post_query_vars;
} );

where I want to search by meta key, and if LIKE is not included in $allowed_meta_query_compare_values it would throw error of disallowed_meta_compare_query_var. I was not able to understand how your snippet would achieve that from a plugin. Can you explain a bit more please?

[westonruter]

@sayedwp oh, you're right 😊

I suppose then that adding a customize_object_selector_allowed_meta_query_compare_values filter would then do the trick, though this is probably overkill and it would be better to just add LIKE to $allowed_meta_query_compare_values like you had originally!

[mohdsayed]

Great, that's all the changes I need, can you please merge this PR ?