Related Posts showing oldest articles

This topic has 11 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 7 years by Radu.

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March 2, 2016 at 16:48 #108010

chrisatnetworld
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The “Related Posts” portion at the bottom of a blog article page is always showing the very first 3 articles. I would like to change it to show the 3 most recent or order it randomly so that it shows different related posts each time. How/where can I change this? Do I have to alter the PHP template or is there a setting in the admin somewhere I am missing?

Example:

Article page: http://icxa.org/2016/03/billy-bishop-toronto-city-airport-creative-competition-st-joseph-thrilled-to-be-a-top-5-finalist/

At the bottom it shows “ComQi wins…” then “ICX Association Honors” and “Scala announces” which are the first three posts in the “Industry News” category. It shows these three at the bottom of every article in this category. I want it to ORDER BY post date DESC or RANDOM

March 3, 2016 at 07:55 #108197

Laura
Moderator

Hello, it shows related posts and right now can’t be changed
If you want to change it you may need to change theme functions, we can only help you with small modifications

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March 3, 2016 at 10:50 #108218

Laura
Moderator
Hello, you can check it out at the file kleo\page-parts\posts-related.php
And you will see its sort by random
COPY CODE
```
/* Query args */
$args=array(
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'showposts'=> 8,
    'orderby' => 'rand' //random posts
);
```
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March 3, 2016 at 15:29 #108262

chrisatnetworld
Participant

Thanks for the reply Laura. But according to that code it should show (or orderyby) random posts, which would work fine for me, but it doesn’t. It always shows the oldest 3 posts. So that seems like a bug.

March 4, 2016 at 16:19 #108552

Laura
Moderator

Hello, could you share admin credentials so i can check it out? 🙂

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March 25, 2016 at 16:37 #112743

chrisatnetworld
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March 28, 2016 at 09:29 #113047

Laura
Moderator

Hello, will assign the ticket to a higher support level who can help and advise you in your query.
Thanks! 🙂

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March 30, 2016 at 22:02 #113685

Radu
Moderator

Hi,

I see that you have an old kleo version (3.0.8) the theme current version is 4.0.4 i suggest you to update the theme then test again.

Let me know

Cheers

Radu

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April 1, 2016 at 19:45 #114160

dribgib
Participant

Newest version of Kleo – this bug still exists.

I see this code:

$args=array(
‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),
‘showposts’=> 8,
‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ //random posts
);

But it doesn’t actually work ;o
April 4, 2016 at 17:24 #114433

Radu
Moderator
Hi,

I understand,

I will add this to buglist untill we patch this pluase replace the code form above with this
COPY CODE
```
/* Query args */
$args=array(
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'showposts'=> 8,
    'orderby' => 'rand', //random posts
    'order'   => 'ASC' //most recent first
);
```
Also let me know if that works ok.

Cheers

Radu

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August 14, 2017 at 04:36 #170532

Imzaia World
Participant

Hello there,

I still have this problem as well.

Has any fix been found in the meantime?

Thank you.

Regards,
Yin

August 15, 2017 at 17:49 #170724

Radu
Moderator

Hi,

Just replace this file content : /kleo/wp-content/themes/kleo/page-parts/posts-related.php

With this one: https://pastebin.com/raw/KwvbBDjp

This will be fixed in next theme update so just replace that file content.

Cheers
R

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