This is exactly what I want to do. I have looked through the plugins and widgets and have found a lot of variations, but not this. I think it is a few lines of code at most, something like this:
<?php echo get_posts(get_the_category()); ?>
I don’t really know php or the template tags, but this is what it might look like in other languages.
Is there a plugin or widget that already does this? If not, and somebody has the code, I can plug it in. thank you
Here there’s some interesting info :
a thread -> http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/179755?replies=1
another -> http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/189282?replies=7
In the first one, the person forgot to close the php, so you must add at the end of the code that :
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
(yes, two times)
The second thread, I’ve not tried it out (I’m going to)
Sorry, I was à la dérive before I found this true gem.
Forget the links and spread the word !
http://playground.ebiene.de/400/related-posts-by-category-the-wordpress-plugin-for-similar-posts/
Download and install.
Then, paste the code shown in the site anywhere in your template : after the loop, in sidebar.php, in the footer, where you want.
I did it after my loop :
<!-- THIS IS MY MINIMALIZED POST for showing purposes -->
<?php
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile;
endif;
?>
<!-- YOU WILL ADD HERE THE PROVIDED CODE
once the plugin is installed -->
<?php
related_posts_by_category(
array(
'orderby' => 'post_date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'limit' => 5,
'echo' => true,
'before' => '<li>',
'inside' => '» ',
'outside' => '',
'after' => '</li>',
'rel' => 'nofollow',
'type' => 'post',
'message' => 'no matches'
)
);
?>
Read carefully the code. In “limit” don’t hesitate to change the number of posts to display.
I’m enjoyin an ultrafast, hyper-neat, super-short never-error hypra-related posts plugin with it 🙂
And my loop is a chaotic disaster, so this one is pure warranty.
Hope this helps.
Hi there, I have been through all the above options, and none quite work for me. On an individual post page, I want to display all other posts from the same category, but also with the option to exclude certain categories.
I am only displaying thumbnails, and so the available plugins don’t work for me as they are not flexible enough.
I currently have
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name='. $category->term_id); ?>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li><?php get_the_image( 'default_size=thumbnail&width=65&height=65' ); ?></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
However this displays all thumbnails, not current category.
1) how do I alter the above code to show current categories only
and
2) once I have the current categories, how do I omit certain ones?
To test for current category, I’ve used this loop (I modified my original loop with the logical ‘OR’ so you can exclude a specific category. Add another operator for each subsequent category you want to exclude.
$categories=get_categories('');
foreach ($categories as $cat)
{
if (is_category($cat->cat_ID)) ||
(is_category($cat->cat_ID) != $unwanted_cat_ID)
{
get_the_image()
}
}
