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HappyFiles Folder Images via Meta Box Taxonomy Field in Bricks Image Gallery

In the Bricks Facebook group, a user asks:

Hey everyone.

I hope you are doing well.

I’m building a single-page template for a custom post type that represents different performance artists. Each artist has their own HappyFiles folder for images, and I’m using a MetaBox Taxonomy Advanced field to select the folder on each post. I have made the HappyFiles category taxonomy public so I can query it in Bricks.

The challenge is that the Bricks gallery element cannot run a query, and when I try to loop a container of Media attachments filtered by the selected HappyFiles folder, the query returns zero images even though the attachments are correctly assigned to that folder.

I may be missing something in the loop setup or the correct method of outputting attachments dynamically. Has anyone managed to query HappyFiles folders dynamically in a Bricks template and display the images without needing separate galleries?

I’m looking for the proper setup to loop attachments by the HappyFiles taxonomy and display them as a gallery for each artist.

Thank you!

This Pro tutorial provides the steps to set the source of Bricks' Image Gallery element on a single post to images present in the selected HappyFiles Folder(s) via a Meta Box Taxonomy or Taxonomy Advanced custom field.

CPT: artist

HappyFiles folders with one folder for each artist:

MB custom field for artist posts:

Objective: When viewing the single artist page, show the images from the selected HF folders in the Image Gallery.

We shall also ensure that our solution works when multiple HappyFiles folders are selected.

Step 1

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

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