jfriesen

Sweet! Problem solved. It was a clash with a plugin. I deactivated plugins one by one, and presto, the hacks did their magic. I hope this thread helps someone.
JF 😉

After two days of searching, I would happily use a plugin to get this functionality that I need working. Alas, I’ve tried out 2 (“other posts from cat” and CHAITGEAR’s “SameCat”), and I can’t get either of them to generate any output.

I’ve surfed through hundreds of related posts, all with a myriad of potential solutions, but I can’t get any of them to work. This one I found looks the most promising, and apparently people are using this successfully:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/50315

I’m not a total PHP nerd, but I can hack around with code. I’m either doing something wrong, or my requirements and/or templates are different. Here is my single.php template:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="nav_row">

<div id="photo_large">
<!--photo large here-->
</div>

<?php include("nav.php"); ?>

<div id="photo_small">
<!--photo small here-->
</div>

</div>

<div id="content">

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</h2>
<div class="entrytext">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>
<p class="postmetadata">
<small>
<?php edit_post_link('Edit','',''); ?>
</small>
</p>
</div>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>

<h2>Not Found</h2>
<p>Sorry, there was a problem finding the content you requested. Please try
again.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php //Generate section index
if ( is_single('34') || is_single('33') || is_single('32') || is_single('31') || is_single('30') || is_single('28') ) {
$cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
$posts = get_posts("category=" . $cat->cat_ID . "&numberposts=999");
if( $posts ) :
?>
<div class="recent-posts">
<h2>More on this category</h2>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endif; } ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Note the section near the end, titled with the comment “Generate section index”–this is the code I need to get working. I simply want to generate a list of links there to all the other posts in the same category as the single post being viewed.

This code is sniffing out the category correctly. If I add in:

$cat = get_the_category();
$cat = $cat[0];
echo $cat->cat_ID

the number “7” is printed to the page–the correct category. The problems start with the next section of code:

$posts = get_posts("category=" . $cat->cat_ID . "&numberposts=999");
if( $posts ) :
?>
<div class="recent-posts">
<h2>More on this category</h2>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>

Nothing is displayed.

Is there some problem with get_posts working on a single.php (post) template?

Is there some issue here because the Loop is already closed? Do I need to rewind_posts() or use wp_query?

Can anyone offer any guidance?

TIA!
JF 😉

Thank you for your replies!

I tried your code, Kafkaesqui, but it returned a list of PAGES rather than posts. I suspect this is because a page is making the query.

Similarly, I don’t think WP-snap will work because while it alphebetizes categories, it appears to do it category at a time–I don’t see any way to configure it that would display ALL posts alphabetically. When I called it from my page, it generated all sorts of SQL errors, again probably because a page was calling the plugin.

All comments appreciated!
thanks,
JF 😉

Thank you so much!! Very helpful replies and exactly the answer I was looking for. Thank you!!!
JF 😉