Pulling recent posts depending on the tag and current page’s title

  • Resolved ciaravino

    (@ciaravino)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    Say I have a page that’s about a video game and I want to pull the 5 most recent posts from the blog that have the same tag as the name of the page. For instance, if the page is called World of Warcraft, I want to pull the 5 most recent posts from the blog that have the tag World of Warcraft. Anyone have a clue as to how to accomplish this?

    So far, I’m using <?php wp_get_archives(‘title_li=&type=postbypost&limit=5’); ?> to get the recent posts, but I don’t know how to filter out the ones with the same tag as the page’s title 🙁

    Maybe there will be something like this:

    ****this gets the tag of the post I think****
$current_tag = single_tag_title("", false);
****if post tag is the same as current page's title****
if ($current_tag == the_title()) {
wp_get_archives('title_li=&type=postbypost&limit=5');
}

    Something like that. I don’t really know 🙁 I need a way to get a list of posts and only filter out the ones that have a tag that matches the title of the current page 🙁

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    <?php $page_title = wp_title('',false,'');?>
<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('posts_per_page=5&tag=' . $page_title);
foreach($myposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
    Thread Starter ciaravino

    (@ciaravino)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for replying, I have no idea how to accomplish this 🙁 I tried your code, but how I’m doing it doesn’t work. Here’s how I’m using it:

    <article>
	<div class="blog-article">
		<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<section>
			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<header>
					<h1 id="page-list-header">
						<?php the_title(); ?>
					</h1>
				</header>
			</div>
		</section>
		<section>
			<?php the_content(); ?>
		</section>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

		<?php $page_title = wp_title('',false,'');?>
		<ul>
		<?php
		global $post;
		$myposts = get_posts('posts_per_page=5&tag=' . $page_title);
		foreach($myposts as $post) :
			setup_postdata($post);
		?>
			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
		<?php endforeach; ?>
		</ul>

    Nothing shows up for that area of code.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Try moving the new code to just before <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    Thread Starter ciaravino

    (@ciaravino)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    That didn’t change anything on the page (nothing was added or subtracted).

    When I use the_title() instead of wp_title(”,false,”) it displays the 5 most recent posts (but they aren’t filtered by tag).

    Also, when I echo $myposts, the only thing that gets displayed is the word “Array”. Should it also have each post as an array item at that point?

    Here’s the code:

    <?php $page_title = wp_title('',false,''); ?>
<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('posts_per_page=5&tag=' . $page_title);
echo $myposts;
foreach($myposts as $post) :
	setup_postdata($post);
?>
	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    The only thing that is displaying is the word “Array”.

    Thread Starter ciaravino

    (@ciaravino)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I think the problem may be that get_posts(tag=) gets the tag’s slug, so I need to get the page’s slug, not the title? I don’t know how to get the page’s slug, but I’m looking.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Try changing:

    <?php $page_title = wp_title('',false,''); ?>

    to:

    <?php $page_title = the_title('',false,''); ?>

    Thread Starter ciaravino

    (@ciaravino)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I tried that, it didn’t work :(. I found the solution though.

    get_posts(tag=) gets the tag’s slug, not the actual tag. So, I needed to get the page’s slug, not the page’s title.

    Instead of wp_title() I use basename(get_permalink()); to get the page’s slug.

    Thanks :D!

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