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Were you able to find a solution for this?

I forgot to mention to place my code in the loop.

@sevenspark My problem has always been that I want it to randomize how it finds the posts. If i get what you’re saying this is what would happen:

Say we have a post with 2 tags. If the first tag has 4 or more posts associated with it, it would display those 4 posts, but disregard the second tag.

@mistercyril

Here is the code I have thats functioning. It looks for your specified custom taxonomy, and outputs up to 4 posts that have the same tags. The only problem with this code is that it will find 4 posts for EACH term found. I haven’t been able to make it a total of 4 posts.

<?php
global $post;
$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'badge', 'string'); //change badge to your taxonomy, these are my tags
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
$postnum = 0;

if(!empty($terms)){
    foreach ($terms as $term) {
        query_posts( array(
        'badge' => $term->slug, //custom taxonomy, these are my tags
        'showposts' => 4,
	'orderby' => 'rand', //orders results randomly
        'caller_get_posts' => 1,
        'post__not_in' => $do_not_duplicate ) );
        if(have_posts()){ ?>

            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
		<?php $postnum++; //generates a unique number for each post and applies it to its class to have theming control ?>
	<div class="post-<?php echo $postnum; ?>">
      			<?php
			$clipping_image = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'clipping_image', true );
			$terms_of_post = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'type', '','', '', '' );//change type to your post type ?>

				<?php if( $terms_of_post ) echo $terms_of_post; ?>

		</div>
        		<?php $found_none = '';
     			endwhile; wp_reset_query();
?>

    <?php }
  }
}
if ($found_none) {
echo $found_none;
}
$post = $backup;  // copy it back
wp_reset_query(); // to use the original query again
?>

*Place code in loop

I’ve commented some of my code to help you out. I may have left some divs or p tags around from my own code by accident. Please check before using. Let me know if that works.

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This is what I’m using and it retrieves the posts great. The only problem is that it retrieves up to 3 related posts PER term, not 3 total. Any ideas how to achieve this?

<?php
global $post;
$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'badge', 'string');
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
$postnum = 0;

if(!empty($terms)){
    foreach ($terms as $term) {
        query_posts( array(
        'badge' => $term->slug,
        'showposts' => 3,
        'caller_get_posts' => 1,
        'post__not_in' => $do_not_duplicate ) );
        if(have_posts()){ ?>

            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
		<?php $postnum++; ?>
	<div class="single-small-posts-<?php echo $postnum; ?>">
      			<?php
			$clipping_image = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'clipping_image', true );
			$terms_of_post = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'type', '','', '', '' );?>

			<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title();?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $clipping_image ?>&h=140&w=140&zc=1"></a>
				<p class="single-small-post-cat"><?php if( $terms_of_post ) echo $terms_of_post; ?></p><p class="single-small-post-number">#<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID,'incr_number',true); ?></p>

		</div>
        		<?php $found_none = '';
     			endwhile; wp_reset_query();
?>

    <?php }
  }
}
if ($found_none) {
echo $found_none;
}
$post = $backup;  // copy it back
wp_reset_query(); // to use the original query again
?>

Hi,

I’m using this code to retrieve related posts based on my custom taxonomy. It works great, but the only problem is that I’m trying to retrieve a total of 4 related posts. This retrieves up to 4 posts per term. What am I doing wrong?

<?php
global $post;
$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'badge', 'string');
$do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID;
$postnum = 0;

if(!empty($terms)){
    foreach ($terms as $term) {
        query_posts( array(
        'badge' => $term->slug,
        'showposts' => 3,
        'caller_get_posts' => 1,
        'post__not_in' => $do_not_duplicate ) );
        if(have_posts()){ ?>

            <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
		<?php $postnum++; ?>
	<div class="single-small-posts-<?php echo $postnum; ?>">
      			<?php
			$clipping_image = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'clipping_image', true );
			$terms_of_post = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'type', '','', '', '' );?>

			<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title();?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo $clipping_image ?>&h=140&w=140&zc=1"></a>
				<p class="single-small-post-cat"><?php if( $terms_of_post ) echo $terms_of_post; ?></p><p class="single-small-post-number">#<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID,'incr_number',true); ?></p>

		</div>
        		<?php $found_none = '';
     			endwhile; wp_reset_query();
?>

    <?php }
  }
}
if ($found_none) {
echo $found_none;
}
$post = $backup;  // copy it back
wp_reset_query(); // to use the original query again
?>

Thank you for this! it works like a charm. I just have one issue with it. I have multiple terms per post, and this pulls only the first one.

How can I change this to list all terms?

Thanks again!

I have the threaded comments option checked and threaded to 3, but still no reply link… im running 3.0.1

Any help?

That was exactly the problem. Thanks for taking me back to WP 101!!

I’m having the same issue… what did you change?

For sure:

For example. I have my own Custom Post Type named ‘clipping’. I also have my own custom, non-heirerical taxonomy called ‘tag’.

Say for example I write 3 posts, or “clippings”, and each one is tagged using the ‘tag’ taxonomy like so:

Post 1: apparel, sun glasses,
Post 2: apparel, t-shirts,
Post 3: photography, t-shirts,
Post 4: art, things,
Post 5: apparel, stuff,

When reading Post 2 I should see a list (that I can theme via CSS) of it’s related posts, which in this case would be:

Post 1
Post 3
Post 5

Does this make sense? I want all posts that have at least 1 term in common with the current post.

I hear you, but what I’m trying to say is that I don’t have a custom field, I have a custom tags taxonomy. You’re saying that I should start out by using this:

function get_custom_field($key, $echo = FALSE) {
	global $post;
	$custom_field = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true);
	if ($echo == FALSE) return $custom_field;
	echo $custom_field;
}

But I’m trying to get an array of values, not just one. So this:
$custom_field = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true);
I would think it should look more like this:
$custom_tags = get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'customtags',' ', ', ', '' )

… so that I could find all posts that have 1 or MORE related tags, not all posts that match the 1 field/term.

Now, if I’m crazy, and this is exactly what you’re telling me to do and how to do it, I apologize! Thanks for your help.

Yes, correct. I need to find all posts that have 1 or more tags as the current single.php post, then randomize them, then show only 4.

Thanks! But I’ll be honest I’m a little lost by your example. I’m trying to find all posts tagged with the same term from a custom taxonomy, not from a custom field. I would think I would have to use something like :
get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'taxonomyname',' ', ', ', '' )

How can I apply what you have to get a term list rather than a specific custom field?