Related posts as a fully controled wp_query

Hello everybody!

I need to create a related posts section, that I’m in full control of.

I have custom post type CAUSE. Each cause is structured, not much updated, heavily customfielded article and it has its news (improvements, interviews, etc.). I need to assign those news to a story some user-friendly way, so I can display custom wp_query with news of a story in a sidebar of a cause.

My first idea was a little bit overcomplicated – it involved dynamically created custom fields and variables in wp_queries – so it obviously didn’t really work. ?? If there won’t be any better way to do the job, I can explain the complicated way and see why it didn’t work.

Thank you very much! C.