Excluding current post from get_posts()

jmz360
(@jmz360)

16 years, 7 months ago
I’m trying to display a list of posts from a certain category in my sidebar. I want to exclude the current post from the list. My code so far is:
```
<ul>
	<?php
		global $post;
		$postid = $post->ID;
		$myposts = get_posts("category=4&exclude=".$postid."&numberposts=1&orderby=rand");
		foreach($myposts as $post){
	?>

<li><a>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php
		}
	?>
</ul>
```
But this doesn’t seem to work. Where am I going wrong?

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(@michaelh)

One possibility:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/288091

In a sidebar, if single post, for the first category of that post, display 5 posts in that category, excluding the single post.

<?php
if ( is_single() ) {
  $cats = wp_get_post_categories($post->ID);
    if ($cats) {
    $first_cat = $cats[0];
    $args=array(
      'cat' => $first_cat, //cat__not_in wouldn't work
      'post__not_in' => array($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())
?>

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jmz360

(@jmz360)

16 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply, I’ll check these out.

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