Related post on custom post type.

[Klame]

It dont work for me…
I have enabled the “Enable custom posts related” under theme options -> blog.

But don’t get anything on my single-cpt.php page.

I came across this code on page-parts/post-related

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

//logic for blog posts
if (is_singular(‘post’)) {

//related text
$related_text = __(“Related Articles”, “kleo_framework”);

$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);

if (!empty($categories)) {
$category_ids = array();
foreach ($categories as $rcat) {
$category_ids[] = $rcat->term_id;
}

$args[‘category__in’] = $category_ids;
}
}
// logic for custom post types
else {

//related text
$related_text = __(“Related”, “kleo_framework”);

global $post;
$categories = get_object_taxonomies($post);

if (!empty($categories)) {
foreach( $categories as $tax ) {
$terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, $tax, array(‘fields’ => ‘ids’));

$args[‘tax_query’][] = array(
‘taxonomy’ => $tax,
‘field’ => ‘id’,
‘terms’ => $terms
);
}
}
}

And thought “Hey, I should definitely do something about this!
Probably this line: $categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
You sir, are a GENIUS!
”
But then I realised.. I’m not a genius!
I dont know what to?
What does $post->ID tells you?

My custom post type is made by this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/

It is using codes like this:
echo $EM_Event->output(‘#_CATEGORYNEXTEVENT’);
To get related post (But they are not very pretty, and for me, not easy to style)

If that makes any difference. 🙂

Thanks

[sharmstr]

According to the plugin, you cant use query_posts to get the events. That’s what the related code uses. You can test this yourself by changing

COPY CODE

query_posts($args);

COPY CODE

query_posts("post_type=event");

What that *should* do is return all events regardless of event_categories and event_tags. You’ll see that it doesnt.

You’ll have to use WP_Query instead. There’s a ton of info on their site about how to use it.

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