Custom posts. Show related posts on single page by taxonomies?

CMS & WordPress
1

hi!

I am building a blog(kind of) in wordpress and I am using custom post type ui and advanced custom fields.

When I go to a posts single page (single-entry.php) I want to show related posts at the bottom.

I have a taxonomy called “category” and I want to show posts that are under the same categories at the bottom of the page (under the mainpost).

Can anyone help me with this?

2

Edit:

So i found a script that seems to be working, except I think i need to edit some things (but don’t know how).

// Create a query for the custom taxonomy
	function related_posts_by_taxonomy( $post_id, $taxonomy, $args=array() ) {
	    $query = new WP_Query();
	    $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post_id, $taxonomy );

	    // Make sure we have terms from the current post
	    if ( count( $terms ) ) {
	        $post_ids = get_objects_in_term( $terms[0]->term_id, $taxonomy );
	        $post = get_post( $post_id );
	        $post_type = get_post_type( $post );

	        // Only search for the custom taxonomy on whichever post_type
	        // we AREN'T currently on
	        // This refers to the custom post_types you created so
	        // make sure they are spelled/capitalized correctly
	        if ( strcasecmp($post_type, 'sites') == 0 ) {
	            $type = 'sites';
	        } else {
	            $type = 'sites';
	        }

	        $args = wp_parse_args( $args, array(
	                'post_type' => $type,
	                'post__in' => $post_ids,
	                'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
	                'term' => $terms[0]->slug,
	            ) );
	        $query = new WP_Query( $args );
	    }

	    // Return our results in query form
	    return $query;
	}

And then this to display:

<?php $related =  related_posts_by_taxonomy( $post->ID, 'category' );
    		while ( $related->have_posts() ): $related->the_post(); ?>

			<div class="medium-6 columns end">

				<div class="inner">
					<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>" class="img-container">
						<div class="img-overlay"></div>
						<img src="<?php the_field('thumb'); ?>" />
					</a>
					<div class="text-container">
						<a href="<?php the_field('url'); ?>"><?php the_field('sitename'); ?></a>
					</div>
				</div>

			</div>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

The problem I have now is that the current post is also shown as related post (to itself), I want to show related posts by category but I don’t want to show the post i am currently reading.

And also this part:

	        // Only search for the custom taxonomy on whichever post_type
	        // we AREN'T currently on
	        // This refers to the custom post_types you created so
	        // make sure they are spelled/capitalized correctly
	        if ( strcasecmp($post_type, 'sites') == 0 ) {
	            $type = 'video';
	        } else {
	            $type = 'sites';
	        }

I am only using one post-type, so how can a edit this accordingly?

3

in the while loop you want to skip over when it reaches the post id of that the page is currently on something like this:


related_posts_by_taxonomy( $post->ID, 'category' );
while ( $related->have_posts() ): $related->the_post(); 
   if($post->ID == get_the_ID()) 
      continue; /* this will skip and go onto the next post in the loop */
?>
4

Thanks a lot=)