Making Featured Listings Display First with Elementor Pro

First of all, thanks again for all the support, and unfortunately this is a bit of a complicated question, so bear with me.

Basically, we thought that GD was working more or less perfectly with Elementor in the sense that when we used the Elementor Pro “Posts” widget, set the Query to source: Businesses (our main GD CPT) and Order By: Menu Order, the featured listings would display first — but as it turns out this is not the case.

We had also used the Anywhere Elementor Pro “Post Blocks” widget to create a slider of featured businesses, that again we initially thought was working correctly when we set the query to Order By: Menu Order. But, we have come to find out (as soon as someone purchased a featured listing) that new featured listings would not appear in the slider using this method, and as such we have had to use manual selection to force the new featured listing into the slider.

The Question is, is there a custom taxonomy we can create with GD and apply only to the featured listings? We need something we can use in the query of both the “Posts” and “Post Blocks” Elementor widgets in order to make it a fully automated and integrated system; I.E. we don’t want to have to go into the “Post Blocks” slider and manually insert the new listing every time somebody purchases a featured listing.

We’ve made a video that goes into more detail and shows exactly what we’re talking about: https://d.pr/v/KDb5VA

Apologies for the long winded nature of the question but — as I’m sure you can understand — we need the system we’ve set up using GD and Elementor to be fully automated.

Hope you can get back to us soon,

Marmoset Digital Media