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Hi,
I used the hook to display related posts with Wp Show post but I’m in front an issue I didn’t find how to fix.
I use a 3 column template on Wp show post to display 3 related posts. But when there is only 1 o 2 posts in a category (as this is a new website) it displays a blank space. Most of my posts are in 2 different categories, so if one category contains less than 3 posts is there a possibility to search for a post in the other category to fill the empty columns ?
Here is the function I’m using :
<?php if ( is_single() ) { $cats = get_the_category(); $cat = $cats[0]; } else { $cat = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) ); } $cat_slug = $cat->slug; $list = get_page_by_title( 'related', 'OBJECT', 'wp_show_posts' ); wpsp_display( $list->ID, 'tax_term="' . $cat_slug . '"' ); ?>Here is a post where you can see the problem at the end : https://destinationsudouest.com/visiter-la-bastide-clairence-pays-basque/
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Hi there,
Something like that would be quite complex, unfortunately. WPSP was just never meant to show related posts, so it’s difficult to work it in.
You can see a topic here where we worked for days to get it to work: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/related-posts-by-tags-and-categories-wp-show-posts-pro-gp-hooks/page/3/#post-1294168
Perhaps a solution like that will work for you?
Hi Tom, thanks for your reply,
I red this thread and tried to understand it but I can’t figure out how to adapt it to my situation.
If I understood the final function in this thread permits to display related post by tag and if there’s no post in tag to display by category right ?
Is it possible to do the opposite ? to display by category and then by tags ?
I tried naively to just replace “tags” with cats” and “cats” but “tags” in the function but obviously it does not work as I really don’t know how php’s work.
Hi there
So you would want it to:
1. Display by the current category if it exists.
2. If it doesn’t exist, display it by the current tag.Is that correct?
Yes !
In that case, you could try this:
<div class="wpsp-related-posts1 grid-container"> <h2>Related Posts</h2> <?php $tax = 'category'; $tax_term = ''; if ( is_single() ) { $cats = get_the_category(); $tax_term = $cats[0]->slug; $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'category_name' => $tax_term, 'post__not_in' => array( get_the_ID() ) ); $posts = get_posts( $args ); if ( ! empty( $posts ) ) { $tax_term = $tax_term; } else { $tags = get_the_tags(); $tax_term = $tags[0]->slug; $tax = 'post_tag'; } } $list = get_page_by_title( 'related', 'OBJECT', 'wp_show_posts' ); wpsp_display( $list->ID, 'taxonomy=' . $tax . '&tax_term=' . $tax_term ); ?> </div>Hi Tom, thanks for your help, sadly it doesn’t seem to work, but don’t worry I don’t want to waste your time, I will use a plugin to do it and it will be fine.
When it comes to related posts, a related posts plugin is definitely the better option 🙂
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