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[dolphspeed99]

Hello,

I need to use related posts to show posts that I manually select. Is there a way I can do this by modifying your related posts code? I don’t want to use another plugin for this, I like your code and want to stick with it. Another option that could work instead of manually select is to choose the related posts based on tags, so if I assign the tag “related-endomorph” to a post, I want the related posts to show posts with the same exact tag, “related-endomorph” and, if there aren’t a minimum of 3 articles to display, the code could look for other articles based on category/title or whatever algorithm you are using.

I also know this isn’t subject to support as it is customization, but I would really appreciate some help, especially that I setup all the theme by myself without asking for help, and it could also be a very nice feature to implement in the following updates.

Thank you!

[Andrei]

Hi,

The file you need to modify is the following ( you should copy it in your child theme, and make the modifications there ) : wp-content/themes/kleo/page-parts/posts-related.php

You will see that at the beginning of the file there are some query args which you can modify to target your related posts. A few details about how you can modify those args can be found in the following page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

Hope this information helps you achieve what you need.
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[dolphspeed99]

Understood, thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it.

[siloynet]

I would also like to change the related posts from categories to tags. I check the wordpress codex page, but i am still confused.

Could anyone please tell/guide me the change that need to be done

COPY CODE

//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;
    }
}

Thanks

[Andrei]

Instead of : $categories = get_the_category($post->ID); change it with $categories = array(‘YOUR_CATEGORY_ID’);

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[hoops]

hi! also want to display related articles by TAGS.

what changes are needed in wp-content/themes/kleo/page-parts/posts-related.php ?

thanks!

[Andrei]

Hi @hoops, please check my earlier posts from this topic, you can find a link to the WP Query documentation where you have example for filtering posts by tags.

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