Previous 5 posts from current post

Hi there,

I'm not too sure what you mean by previous posts from the current post. Can you explain a bit more?

I mean

you are reading this post at this url
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/previous-5-posts-from-current-post-widget/

Can I display 5 posts -- posted just before this post -- below this post or in a widget in the sidebar?

You should be able to use a plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/

There's an offset option, and should even be an option to ignore the current post.

Thanks Tom, but it is just showing only recent posts....

I want 5 posts descending from current post, i.e.

CURRENT POST

- Title and link of previous post
- Title and link of previous previous post
- Title and link of previous previous previous post

I think I need to get help from get_previous_post() in for or while loop...

<?php
$prev_post = get_previous_post();
if (!empty( $prev_post )): ?>
guid ?>"><?php echo $prev_post->post_title ?>
<?php endif ?>

Ah, that would likely require some pretty considerable coding.

I believe the plugin I linked to, and this one (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/), have an order by date option. However, that wouldn't make it so they started at the previous post of the one being viewed.

You might be able to ask in their support forums if there's a filter you can do to achieve that?