A user asks:
Query a metabox group, but limit items?
...i cannot see how to pick a random text field in that group and change it every X minutes. is it doable?
i need to show only one item in the metabox group, at random, and randomly pick another after one hour.
btw, dunno why the groups have no options like posts or pages.
Non standard query types like ACF Repeaters, Meta Box Groups and Relationships do not have the same controls that the post query loops have.
This Pro tutorial shows how PHP transients and bricks/query/result filter can be used to specify how many random items should be output in the query loop's result set and for how long.
After implementing the tutorial, you could, for example, show one random row of a Meta Box group on page load, continue to show the same for an hour (the same for all visitors/users), and then output another random row (other than what was shown in the last hour) for the second hour and so on.
Before:
After:
After another hour:
Step 1
In a Bricks template or Page, set up your query loop.
In this example, we are querying a Meta Box group.
Step 2
Before we add the code snippet let's first understand what the original query result and the query object looks like.
Original query result:
This can be seen by adding this snippet in a code snippets plugin like WPCodeBox or in the child theme's functions.php at the end w/o the opening PHP tag:
