Title: WP_REST_Request::set_query_params
Published: December 9, 2015
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# WP_REST_Request::set_query_params( array $params )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

Sets parameters from the query string.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

Typically, this is set from `$_GET`.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$params`arrayrequired

Parameter map of key to value.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public function set_query_params( $params ) {
    	$this->params['GET'] = $params;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-request.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-request.php#L553)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-request.php#L553-L555)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.4.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.  [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/?output_format=md#comment-content-3501)
 2.   [Keramot UL Islam](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sourav926/)  [  7 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_request/set_query_params/#comment-3501)
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 4.     ```php
        $request = new WP_REST_Request( 'GET', '/wp/v2/posts' );
        $request->set_query_params(
            array(
                'per_page'	=> 5,
                'status'	=> 'publish',
                'order'		=> 'desc',
                'orderby'	=> 'title',
            )
        );
        ```
    
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