Kind of related posts but a bit different

Can offer you this as an example you could play with:

for use in the loop, list all posts with tags contained on current post, excluding the current post

<?php
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
  $term_ids=array();
  foreach($tags as $tag) {
    array_push($term_ids,$term->term_id);
  }
  $args=array(
    'tag__in' => $term_ids,
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'caller_get_posts'=> 1
  );
  $my_query = null;
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo 'List of Related Posts';
    while ($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;
  }
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
}
?>

Thanks for that – bit advanced for me really.

Also, I don’t think that is quite what I’m looking for. If I have a post of a holiday (for example, with ‘Venice at Christmas’ as a tag) then my main hotel and alternative hotels (with ‘Venice at Christmas’ as a tag also) means the main one would show fine as it is the only one (hence ‘main’) but my alternative hotels list would also include the main one again.

Have I interpreted what your code does correctly?

Thanks very much for replying though.
Nick

What I have been trying is using a post excerpt widget to display the hotel info and then using a widget context plugin to determine which page to display which hotels. It works but means I could potentially end up with hundreds of widgets in my right sidebar (admin area) to cover all hoiday/hotel combinations.

Just hoping there was a more elegant solution.

One thought is having categories like Venice Main Hotel,Venice Alternative Hotels, etc and display posts within a category with a sidebar widget. This again though could mean a lot of widgets to manipulate in the admin area.
Nick

You might then want to consider some kind of related posts type plugin that doesn’t require coding.

Example:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/

I have been looking at plugins, just can’t seem to get them to do exactly what I want.
Maybe I’ll have to pay someone for some coding!
Thanks again,
Nick