If you’re looking to display related posts on your WordPress website, there are a few different ways to do it. In this article, we’ll cover two methods: using custom code in your theme, and using a plugin.
Method 1: Custom Code
If you want to display related posts without using a plugin, you can do so by adding some custom code to your theme. Here’s how:
1. Open your theme’s functions.php file.
2. Paste the following code at the end of the file:
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// Default arguments
$args = array(
‘posts_per_page’ => 4, // How many items to display
‘post__not_in’ => array( get_the_ID() ), // Exclude current post
‘no_found_rows’ => true, // We don’t need pagination so this speeds up the query
);
// Check for current post category and add tax_query to the query arguments
$cats = wp_get_post_terms( get_the_ID(), ‘category’ );
$cats_ids = array();
foreach( $cats as $wpex_related_cat ) {
$cats_ids[] = $wpex_related_cat->term_id;
}
if ( ! empty( $cats_ids ) ) {
$args[‘category__in’] = $cats_ids;
}
// Query posts
$wpex_query = new wp_query( $args );
// Loop through posts
foreach( $wpex_query->posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
