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1. venkmanuk
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi there,

   I'm building a custom theme. My sidebar shows 'adverts' that lead to a post in category 5 and the main column shows all other posts and categories except category 5.

   Here's the thing:

   When someone clicks on the post ( 'advert' ) in the sidebar and we go to that post's 'single' page, how can i prevent the post being shown in the sidebar?

   i think the code needs to say:
   if - anything in the sidebar loop = the current page id, skip it.

   does this sound right? how do i do that in php?

2. venkmanuk
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   bump

3. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 8 months ago #

   what code is used to show the sidebar posts?

   (please follow http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code when posting code)

   generally:

   look into the 'post__not_in' parameter for queries;
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Post_.26_Page_Parameters
   also, read http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action for avoiding duplicate posts;

   only guessing: you might need to use a conditional tag such as is_single(), and add global $post; before the code.

4. venkmanuk
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   thanks for your reply,
   here's a pastebin of the current code:
   http://pastebin.com/Y81Pxctq

   maybe it'll work to add this! ?

   <?php
   function myPostid() {
   global $wp_query;
   $thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID;
   }
    if ( $post->ID == $thePostID ) continue;
   ?>

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