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Related posts is a very popular feature. My default wordpress installation often includes a plugin that has this functionality. There are quite a few plugins that lets you have this feature…<\/p>\n
WordPress has been supporting tags in its new released – so the related posts feature can be implemented without the help of any plugins. All we have to do is find the other posts with some same tags as the current post<\/strong>. Just open the This code finds the other post with any one of the tag that the current post has. If you want to show the posts with any one of the categories<\/strong> that the current post has, use this code instead…<\/p>\n For those who came in late, this post is part of the WordPress Plugin Killer Series<\/a>. This series will show you how to duplicate the functionality of the a few wordpress plugins without having to install it using custom code in the wordpress theme. The previous posts in this series are…<\/p>\n Related posts is a very popular feature. My default wordpress installation often includes a plugin that has this functionality. There are quite a few plugins that lets you have this feature.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,31],"tags":[212,213,219,235,251,304],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php","category-scripts","category-wordpress","tag-plugin","tag-plugin-killer","tag-post","tag-related","tag-series","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}single.php<\/code> file in your theme and add this bit of code<\/strong> where you want the related posts to show up…<\/p>\n<?php\n$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);\nif ($tags) {\n\t$tag_ids = array();\n\tforeach($tags as $individual_tag) $tag_ids[] = $individual_tag->term_id;\n\t\n\t$args=array(\n\t\t'tag__in' => $tag_ids,\n\t\t'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),\n\t\t'showposts'=>5, \/\/ Number of related posts that will be shown.\n\t\t'caller_get_posts'=>1\n\t);\n\t$my_query = new wp_query($args);\n\tif( $my_query->have_posts() ) {\n\t\techo '<h3>Related Posts<\/h3><ul>';\n\t\twhile ($my_query->have_posts()) {\n\t\t\t$my_query->the_post();\n\t\t?>\n\t\t\t<li><a href=\"<?php the_permalink() ?>\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>\"><?php the_title(); ?><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<?php\n\t\t}\n\t\techo '<\/ul>';\n\t}\n}\n?><\/code><\/pre>\n<?php\n$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);\nif ($categories) {\n\t$category_ids = array();\n\tforeach($categories as $individual_category) $category_ids[] = $individual_category->term_id;\n\t\n\t$args=array(\n\t\t'category__in' => $category_ids,\n\t\t'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),\n\t\t'showposts'=>5, \/\/ Number of related posts that will be shown.\n\t\t'caller_get_posts'=>1\n\t);\n\t\/\/ Rest is the same as the previous code\n<\/code><\/pre>\nWordPress Plugin Killer Series<\/h2>\n
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