[Plugin: Similar Posts] not showing any posts

  • Resolved deepbevel

    (@deepbevel)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve configured the plugin to show posts with the same tag, category and author. but it says “none found” even though all posts in a single category have the same tag, and same author. They are private posts so I set it accordingly. I’m using the widget. Is there something else I have to do? does it not work in an archive? Although it doesn’t return any results an post single either.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/similar-posts/

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  • Hi Deepbevel, try installing the “Post-Plugin Library” plugin aswell and let me know if it works ??

    Thanks,
    -GG

    Thread Starter deepbevel

    (@deepbevel)

    I did install that first, as instructed. It just wouldn’t show any results. However I found code that gives me exactly what I was looking for:

    <?php
//for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on current post
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
  echo 'Related Posts';
  $first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
  $args=array(
    'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'showposts'=>5,
    'caller_get_posts'=>1
   );
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
      <?php
    endwhile;
  }
}
?>

    It’s odd though, I tried about 7 plugins which are supposed to return posts of the current tag, none worked. Why this code can do it I’ll probably never know.

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