in sidebar, show other posts of same category

Resolved tonywhite
(@tonywhite)

15 years, 1 month ago

I’m using wordpress 2.7.

In the sidebar of a single post, I want to display a list of other posts of the same category as the one currently displayed. I want to exclude the currently displayed post title from that list.

If no other additional posts in that category exists, do nothing.

Anyone know how I can accomplish this?

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(@michaelh)

I believe some related posts plugins will do that, but try this in your sidebar.php:

<?php
if ( is_single() ) {
  $cats = wp_get_post_categories($post->ID);
  if ($cats) {
    $first_cat = $cats[0];
    $args=array(
      'cat' => $first_cat,
      'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
      'showposts'=>5,
      'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo 'Related Posts';
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    } //if ($my_query)
  } //if ($cats)
  wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
} //if (is_single())
?>

Thread Starter

tonywhite

(@tonywhite)

15 years, 1 month ago

perfect. gracias!