Is there a way to use post status as one of the criteria

Hi Lawrence David

The only way to do this is by by replacing part of the query.
Try it with this in your (child) theme’s functions.php file.

add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy_posts_where', 'rpbt_add_custom_post_status', 10, 4 );

function rpbt_add_custom_post_status( $where_sql, $post_id, $taxonomies, $args ) {

	// The statusses you want to add.
	$custom_status = array( 'future', 'draft' );
	$search        = "post_status = 'publish'";

	foreach ( $custom_status as $status ) {
		$replace = $search . " OR post_status = '" . $status . "'";
		$where_sql = str_replace( $search, $replace, $where_sql );
	}

	// If you want to remove the 'publish' status remove the two forward slashes from the next line.
	// $where_sql = str_replace( $search . ' OR', '', $where_sql);

	return $where_sql;
}

In this example the stati future and draft are added with this.

$custom_status = array( 'future', 'draft' );

Change it to your stati.

Thanks your code works well. The only thing is that I don’t want post with the post status of ‘publish’ to show.

You code enabled my other custom post status to show up put still show the post that are published I want to show only post from my custom post status.

Thanks for your prompt response you are awesome.

Try changing this

// $where_sql = str_replace( $search . ' OR', '', $where_sql);

To this

$where_sql = str_replace( $search . ' OR', '', $where_sql);

You sir, are a genius!

You’re welcome ??