6 Random Posts from Tag A + 6 Random Posts from Tag B in a Single Bricks Query Loop

A user asks:

Hello!

In a query loop, I need to output 12 random posts. 6 with the 1001 tag and 6 with the 1002 tag. Any suggestions on how to achieve that before I fire up VS code?

This Pro tutorial shows how this can be done in a Bricks query loop.

Step 1

Let's first define a custom function takes in the tag name string and an optional number of posts (with a default of 6) integer as arguments and returns an array of the IDs of x number of posts in the specified tag.

Add the following in child theme's functions.php (w/o the opening PHP tag) or a code snippets plugin: