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Hi there,
I want to use WPSP to show only posts that are in the current category. I managed to do that by changing a snippet I found here in the forum:
<?php $terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'category' ); if ( !empty( $terms ) ){ // get the first term $term = array_shift( $terms ); $term_slug = $term->slug; } wpsp_display( 1234, 'tax_term="' . $term_slug . '"' ); ?>Now what I would like to add is that in addition to showing only the current category it should only include posts with a specific tag. How would I do that?
Adding to this:
Is there a way to make the above snippet prioritize subcategories or primarycategories (as you can select in GeneratePress)?Ideal would be:
Primary Category (if not available)-> Subcategory (if not available)-> Any Category
How are you defining primary categories?
You can use any of the WP_Query parameters: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/
$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'category' ); if ( !empty( $terms ) ){ // get the first term $term = array_shift( $terms ); $term_slug = $term->slug; } $args = array( 'tax_term' => $term_slug, ); wpsp_display( 1234, $args );Sorry, I can’t get this to work. Assuming the tag I want to limit shown posts to is called “new”. How would I add that to the snippet?
How are you defining primary categories?
I assumed it’s from the GP theme, but it’s from the SEO plugin, so this is how one would access the primary category according to the dev:
// WordPress core:
$term_id = get_post_meta( $post_id, ‘_primary_term_’ . $taxonomy, true ); // int or false//= TSF 3.0+:
$term = the_seo_framework()->get_primary_term( $post_id, $taxonomy ); // WP_Term or false.
$term_id = the_seo_framework()->get_primary_term_id( $post_id, $taxonomy ); // intAs mentioned above ideally it would look for Primary Category (if not available)-> Subcategory (if not available)-> Any Category.
Looking at the WP_Query parameters I couldn’t find anything for subcategory specifically. Is there a workaround?
As mentioned above ideally it would look for Primary Category (if not available)-> Subcategory (if not available)-> Any Category.
I realized that this might have been unclear. It should look for these categories on the post that is currently displayed.
Maybe this will work? If so, we can look into including primary categories etc..
$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'category' ); if ( !empty( $terms ) ){ // get the first term $term = array_shift( $terms ); $term_slug = $term->slug; } $args = array( 'tax_term' => $term_slug, 'tax_query' => array( 'relation' => 'AND', array( 'taxonomy' => 'category', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => array( $term->slug ), ), array( 'taxonomy' => 'post_tag', 'field' => 'slug', 'terms' => array( 'new' ), ), ), ); wpsp_display( 1234, $args );Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work…
I use “Order by: Random” in case that makes a difference. I don’t necessarily need it to be random every time the page reloads, but I wouldn’t know how else to get a different selection of posts to show under each article. EDIT: Figured out using “No Order” instead of “Random” is probably what I want. However it still doesn’t limit the posts it shows to the ones with the “new” tag.
Seems like “No Order” is not what I thought it is.
I know this is getting a little out of hand, but is there a way to randomize shown posts based on the current post ID or something? So one page has a static random selection of posts that meet the criteria mentioned above and the selection is the same even after reload.
So it would do this
- Check current post for Primarycat > Subcat (Category with a parent) > Parentcat (In this order and work with the first that’s available)
- Show posts that are randomly selected based on a static but unique value, such as current post ID and
- are in the same category selected above
- have the “new” tag and are randomly selected based on a static value, such as current post ID.
Thanks for all your help Tom!
EDIT: won’t let me edit my old posts anymore… there was one condition mentioned twice.
- Check current post for Primarycat > Subcat (Category with a parent) > Parentcat (In this order and work with the first that’s available)
- Show posts that are randomly selected based on a static but unique value, such as current post ID and
- are in the same category selected above
- have the “new” tag
Thanks for all your help Tom!
Hi there,
I’m not sure how to do the random selection part, unfortunately. It might be worth asking over on https://wordpress.stackexchange.com, as the question itself is related to WP_Query. It’s possible that someone has a working example they can share.
If they do, we can easily integrate the args with WPSP.
Thanks for your reply, I think I found an easier way to do what I need. I found a related post plugin that lets you export Post IDs:
$rel_posts = get_crp_posts_id(array ('postid' => $post_id, 'limit' => 4));Is there a way to implement this into the snippet you posted earlier? It should give out 4 ID’s that WPSP could output, right? If that’s possible I wouldn’t need any of the other conditions.
You could try this:
$rel_posts = get_crp_posts_id(array ('postid' => $post_id, 'limit' => 4)); $args = array( 'post__in' => $rel_posts, ); wpsp_display( 1234, $args );This doesn’t work unfortunately.
$scores = get_crp_posts_id(); $rel_posts = array_column( (array) $scores, 'ID' ); print_r( $rel_posts )Gives out:
Array ( [0] => 305512 [1] => 334934 [2] => 332645 [3] => 334067 )
So this part does seem to work.
But when I add
$args = array( 'post__in' => $rel_posts, ); wpsp_display( 1234, $args );It just displays the latest posts with no filter. So it doesn’t seem to take the ID’s into account.
Strange. Just to debug, what if you do this?:
$args = array( 'post__in' => array( 305512, 334934, 332645, 334067 ), ); wpsp_display( 1234, $args );
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