Title: Related post hardcode
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Related post hardcode

 *  [ninetto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninetto/)
 * (@ninetto)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-post-hardcode/)
 * Hi!
    I am using the code to get the related post using tags. How can i show this
   if no tags are found `<p>No tags Found</p>`
 *     ```
       <?php
       //for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on current post
       $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
       if ($tags) {
         echo 'Related Posts';
         $first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
         $args=array(
           'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
           'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
           'showposts'=>2,
           'caller_get_posts'=>1
          );
         $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
         if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
           while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
       <div class="related-posts"><div class="Small-Landscape-image">
       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
       <?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'popular_image', true); /* Replace lead_image with the name of the custom field for the image you want to use */ ?>
       <img style=" margin:0px; border:0px;" width="70" height="54" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" src="<?php echo $image ?>" /></a></div>
   
             <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
       <?php if ($post->post_excerpt != "" ) {the_excerpt();
       }
       else {the_content_rss('', FALSE, '', 25);
       }
       ?></p>
       </div>
             <?php
           endwhile;
         }
       }
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-post-hardcode/#post-1239360)
 * You could try changing the last few lines from:
 *     ```
       </div>
             <?php
           endwhile;
         }
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * to
 *     ```
       </div>
       <?php else :?>
       <div class="related-posts"><p>No tags Found</p></div>
       <?php endif;?>
       <?php
           endwhile;
         }
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [ninetto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninetto/)
 * (@ninetto)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-post-hardcode/#post-1239421)
 * Thanks but it didn’t work.
    What i am looking for is when viewing a post that
   has a tag the related posts show which the code above does, but when there are
   no related post it should show the message <p>No tags found<p>.

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ninetto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninetto/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-post-hardcode/#post-1239421)
 * Status: not resolved

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