Help intercepting the WP_Query

Hey folks – I’m trying to use the Facet WP plugin to enable a filtering system by letter of the alphabet.

I’ve contacted the developer as I’m having troubles getting the plugin to work with the Avia Layout Builder.

I’m hoping you guys can help as we’re about to launch!

1 – so I’ve got a custom post type called ‘people’
2 – I’ve had to use the avia layout builder to create the single custom post type due to the way we need to display content see here http://queenswharf.org/people/francis-drummond-greville-stanley/
3 – the default layout for the feed is this http://queenswharf.org/people/ which looks pretty bad to the way it handles the featured image and the image at the top of the post as it’s pulling all the content before the ‘read more’ button
4 – so I created another page using the layout builder to display the ‘people’ feed like I want here http://queenswharf.org/queens-wharf-people/

unfortualtey I can’t get the Facet WP to work on this page as there is no way for the FacetWP to “intercept” the WP_Query instance. We got it working on a category page see here – as we were able to edit the template file http://queenswharf.org/category/people/

so is there a way we can intercept the WP_Query instance for this page that is built with a layout editor http://queenswharf.org/queens-wharf-people/

Cheers