[Support request] Can I add a ‘Related posts’, ‘ GP section template’ after articles?

[Ema]

Hello GP,

Can I design a GP section template for related posts, using the native Worpress posts loop, and add it beneath the article?
Or do I need to do this with a hook?

Best E

[Elvin]

Hi Ema,

By GP Section template, do you mean the old Sections feature of GP Premium? If that’s the case then I don’t think that’s usable as Sections can’t be placed on hooks.

The best approach would be to get a have a related post loop (either from plugin or custom designed WP_query loop) and hook it beneath the article.

The related posts loop can be placed on either a Hook Element or a Block Element.

Or actually, you can even do the entire thing on a code snippets plugin as you simply have to wrap the entire thing into a function and have that function be hooked on a specific GP hook below the article.

For the related posts loop, we don’t exactly have a plugin recommendation that can display related posts out of the box but we have some workarounds with WP Show Posts which can be found here in the forums. 😀

[Ema]

Hi Elvin,

Thanks for your time.
i was looking Elements > Blocks > Content template >

Set up like this

But I don’t think this section can be targeted underneath articles?

I have wp-show posts installed

The code I’m looking at is:

<div class="wpsp-related-posts1  grid-container">
	<h2>Related Posts</h2>
<?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 . '"' );
?>
</div>

[David]

Hi there,

you can use this GIST:

https://gist.github.com/diggeddy/b71bf07aa55eecb0c34191f9fe05d224

it creates a shortcode that outputs a custom loop.
The default args are to show the latest 3 posts. If added/hooked into a single post it will get 3 posts within that category terms.

It outputs a HTML wrapper for the grid, and within the loop a hook: do_action('db_custom_post_loop'); you can use to add your block element template.

[Ema]

Hi!

I was just looking at your GIST David and some related posts info on WPSP.
(Your FlintSkin website is down btw).

Thank you, going to give this a go now.

Thanks, David

E

[David]

Glad to be of help.

[Ema]

Hi David,

Would I add main code PHP to Snippets or child theme, then the shortcode [db_custom_loop_shortcode] in via elements>hooks?

Very Best
E

[David]

1. The PHP Can go in either the Child Theme functions.php OR the code snippets plugin.

2. You can then add the [db_display_custom_post_loop] shortcode in the post editor or use a Hook Element to add it to where you need it.

3. The Block Element – Content Template you create for displaying the post template, you need to:
3.1 Change the Element Type to Hook.
3.2 Select the Hook > Custom Hook
3.3 Add this hook to the field provided: db_custom_post_loop

Hope that makes sense – its a bit of rabbit hole!

Thx for the headsup on the site… hell know how a maintenance page can break lol .

[Ema]

Thank you, David, you are an almanach.

This makes sense! Putting into practice now. So good!

I thought you may have some code for this kicking around and came across your site. It’s no doubt because you are so busy sorting out everyone else’s glitches.
Best E

[David]

Awesome – let me know how you get on with it 🙂

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