Awesome plugin, but I’m having similar issues with Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. When Related is active, it wipes out all the Title, Keyword, and Meta info for every page/post, and replaces it with info from the last page saved. Really sucks, because this is a really cool plugin, and I really would like to use it.
You can see the explanation of why this plugin is causing the problem in the thread I posted in the seoaiop support. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-all-in-one-seo-pack-data-disappears-on-pagepost-edit?replies=5#post-3138931
Has to do with altering the global post id.
I rewrote the function that displays the related meta field on the post page. the important bit is after the query, rather that use the_post(), which overwrites the global post id I just loop through the results returned by the query.
// Creates the output on the post screen
public function displayMetaBox() {
global $post;
$post_id = $post->ID;
// Get related posts if existing
$related = get_post_meta($post_id, ‘related_posts’, true);
if (!empty($related)) {
echo ‘<div id=”related-posts”>’;
foreach($related as $r) {
$p = get_post($r);
?>
<div class=”related-post” id=”related-post-<?php echo $r; ?>”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”related-posts[]” value=”<?php echo $r; ?>”>
<span class=”related-post-title”><?php echo $p->post_title; ?> (<?php echo ucfirst(get_post_type($p->ID)); ?>)</span>
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</div>
<?php
} // end foreach post
echo ‘</div>’;
} // end if !empty
$query = array(
‘nopaging’ => true,
‘post__not_in’ => array($post_id),
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
‘post_type’ => ‘any’,
‘orderby’ => ‘title’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’
);
$p = new WP_Query($query);
$count = count($p->posts);
if ($count > 0) {
?>
<p>
<select id=”related-posts-select” name=”related-posts-select”>
<option value=”0″>Select</option>
<?php
foreach ($p->posts as $thePost) {
?>
<option value=”<?php
echo $thePost->ID; ?>”><?php echo
$thePost->post_title.’ (‘.ucfirst(get_post_type($thePost->ID)).’)’; ?></option>
<?php
}
?>
</select>
</p>
<?php
} // end if count
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
}
Thanks much Hube2. I appreciate the help!
There is a little bug in this code (you can’t add related post on a post with none related post).
You must put out the div “related-posts” of the brace.
if (!empty($related)) {
echo ‘<div id=”related-posts”>’;
…
echo ‘</div>’;
}
=>
echo ‘<div id=”related-posts”>’;
if (!empty($related)) {
…
}
echo ‘</div>’;
Thanks. I discovered that this plugin was the cause of a lot of headaches with another plugin due to it changing the global $post. Can this be incorporated a future release of this plugin as I would consider it a bug.
(It hasn’t been updated in a while–will it be maintained?)
Thanks.
hey guys – I’m a novice and I’m having trouble understanding how to edit the code posted by Hube2 with the fix posted by photoscope – can someone help me out?! Pretty please? 😀
Never mind! For anyone else…
‘// Creates the output on the post screen
public function displayMetaBox() {
global $post;
$post_id = $post->ID;
// Get related posts if existing
$related = get_post_meta($post_id, ‘related_posts’, true);
echo ‘<div id=”related-posts”>’;
if (!empty($related)) {
foreach($related as $r) {
$p = get_post($r);
?>
<div class=”related-post” id=”related-post-<?php echo $r; ?>”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”related-posts[]” value=”<?php echo $r; ?>”>
<span class=”related-post-title”><?php echo $p->post_title; ?> (<?php echo ucfirst(get_post_type($p->ID)); ?>)</span>
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</div>
<?php
} // end foreach post
} // end if !empty
echo ‘</div>’;
$query = array(
‘nopaging’ => true,
‘post__not_in’ => array($post_id),
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
‘post_type’ => ‘any’,
‘orderby’ => ‘title’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’
);
$p = new WP_Query($query);
$count = count($p->posts);
if ($count > 0) {
?>
<p>
<select id=”related-posts-select” name=”related-posts-select”>
<option value=”0″>Select</option>
<?php
foreach ($p->posts as $thePost) {
?>
<option value=”<?php
echo $thePost->ID; ?>”><?php echo
$thePost->post_title.’ (‘.ucfirst(get_post_type($thePost->ID)).’)’; ?></option>
<?php
}
?>
</select>
</p>
<?php
} // end if count
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
}’
