Exclude post in sidebar based on selection

  • Resolved cboakes

    (@cboakes)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I am trying to display posts in a way where the sidebar displays the excerpts of two recent posts and the middle of the page displays the full post when the post in the sidebar is selected. I have been able to do this by modifying the ‘single.php’ file.

    However I don’t know how to exclude the post in the middle from the sidebar?

    Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to do this?

    Thanks

    Chris

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  • Thread Starter cboakes

    (@cboakes)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve figured out what I think is the best way to approach it but I still need help with its completion:
    I use:
    <?php query_posts(array('category_name' => 'news', 'post__not_in' => array(31))); ?>
    This would exclude, in this instance, the post with the ID of 31.

    So now I need to make it dynamic. My knowledge of php isn’t great, but I thought declaring a variable of the current post would work, so something like:

    <?php
$excludeid = 31;
query_posts(array('category_name' => 'news', 'post__not_in' => array($excludeid)));
?>

    This worked fine. So to make it dynamic my logic was to go with:
    $excludeid = the_ID();

    But this just doesn’t work, would anybody help me to try and make this dynamic?

    Thanks

    Thread Starter cboakes

    (@cboakes)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Figured it out, thanks to this article:

    http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/06/24/retrieve-and-get-wordpress-post-id-outside-the-loop-as-php-variable/

    So the variable needed to be declared as:
    $post->ID

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