Ajax Load More for Related posts

Hi, I’m using this tutorial to accomplish related posts without a plugin https://wpcrumbs.com/2017/03/how-to-display-related-posts-without-a-plugin/#comment-5948 , and I’m trying to add ajax load more to display even more podcasts.

So I’m adding this code to my functions

/**
 * Related posts
 *
 * @global object $post
 * @param array $args
 * @return
 */
function wcr_related_posts($args = array()) {
    global $post;

    // default args
    $args = wp_parse_args($args, array(
        'post_id' => !empty($post) ? $post->ID : '',
        'taxonomy' => 'category',
        'limit' => 3,
        'post_type' => !empty($post) ? $post->post_type : 'post',
        'orderby' => 'date',
        'order' => 'DESC'
    ));

    // check taxonomy
    $registered_taxonomies = get_taxonomies();

    if (!in_array($args['taxonomy'], $registered_taxonomies)) {
        return;
    }

    // post taxonomies
    $taxonomies = wp_get_post_terms($args['post_id'], $args['taxonomy'], array('fields' => 'ids'));

    if (empty($taxonomies)) {
        return;
    }

    // query
    $related_posts = get_posts(array(
        'post__not_in' => (array) $args['post_id'],
        'post_type' => $args['post_type'],
        'tax_query' => array(
            array(
                'taxonomy' => $args['taxonomy'],
                'field' => 'term_id',
                'terms' => $taxonomies
            ),
        ),
        'posts_per_page' => $args['limit'],
        'orderby' => $args['orderby'],
        'order' => $args['order']
    ));

    include( locate_template('relatedposts.php', false, false) );

    wp_reset_postdata();
}

then I include this in the single.php like this

<?php wcr_related_posts(); ?>

and add ajax load more like this

if(!empty($related_posts)){
   $cat = get_query_var('cat');
   $category = get_category ($cat);
   echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more container_type="div" css_classes="flex-box-row flex-wrap" repeater="template_2" post_type="post" posts_per_page="3" post_format="standard" category="'.$category->slug.'" cache="true" cache_id="cache-'.$category->slug.'" offset="6" pause="true" transition_container="false" images_loaded="true"]');
}
?>

And this brings the posts from all categories, not related to the post categories.

So my question is, do you think there is a way I can change the $variable to import the related_posts categories.

Thanks

• This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by alejuu.
• This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by alejuu.
• This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by alejuu.
• This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by alejuu.
• This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by alejuu.