single.php Post & 5 Category excerpts

  • Is there a Wiki for WordPress support? It is very difficult to search for common problems with the current forum based support.

    Nonetheless my question is:
    On single.php I want to display a single post and I want to follow it with 5 posts from the same category (thumbnail + linked title + excerpt).

    I tried the Customizable Post Listings plugin but it is not flexible enough to allow for thumbnails and I could not figure out how to pass the Post category variable to the c2c_get_random_posts() function statement.

    I am fairly certain it is something that can be done within theLoop but I cannot figure out how to code it. I would prefer to do this outside of a plugin.

    EXAMPLE:
    Grab the post p=7
    p=7 (cat=2)
    Grab 5 posts from cat=2

    display (title content pic) p=7
    5 x display (title excerpt thumbnail) cat=2

    here is a wired frame example of what I am trying to do:
    https://www.pupstyle.com/blogdetail1.jpg

    thanks for the help-

    Jon

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