Activate related posts

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• Started 1 year ago by Poirot
• Latest reply from Mya
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1. 

   Poirot
   Member

   Hi,

   Corona is a fantastic theme, thumbs up!

   I have assigned categories and tags to my posts, however no related posts are visible.

   Can you please help me out? See the related-post.php code below. Thank you in advance!

   $columns = 3;
   $reladed_posts = false;
   $this_id = $post->ID;
   $slidecount = 0;
   $postcount = ($columns * 3) + 1;

   $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
   if ($tags) {

   $tag_ids = "";
   foreach ($tags as $tag ) $tag_ids .= $tag->name.",";
   $tag_ids = substr_replace($tag_ids ,"",-1);
   $tag_ids = str_replace(" ", "-",$tag_ids);

   if($tag_ids)
   {
   $my_query = new WP_Query("tag=$tag_ids&showposts=$postcount&ignore_sticky_posts=1&orderby=rand");

   if ($my_query->have_posts())
   {
   $count = 1;
   $output = "";

   $output .= "<div class='hr hr_related_posts'></div>";
   $output .= "<div class='related-meta'>";
   $output .= "<h3 class='miniheading'>".__('Related Posts','avia_framework')."</h3>";
   $output .= "<span class='minitext'>".__('Did you like this entry?
   Here are a few more posts that might be interesting for you.','avia_framework')."</span>";
   $output .= "</div>";

   $output .= "<div class ='related_posts'>";
   $output .= "<strong class='related_single_heading'>Related Posts";
   $output .= "<div class='content_slider autoslide_false'>";

   while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
   if($post->ID != $this_id)
   {
   $reladed_posts = true;
   $slidecount ++;

   if($count == 1)
   {
   $output .= "<div class='single_slide single_slide_nr_$slidecount'>";
   }

   $image = "<span class='related_posts_default_image'></span>";
   $slides = avia_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'slideshow', true);

   //check if a preview image is set
   if( $slides != "" && !empty( $slides[0]['slideshow_image']) )
   {
   //check for image or video
   if(is_numeric($slides[0]['slideshow_image']))
   {
   $image = avia_image_by_id($slides[0]['slideshow_image'], 'related', 'image');
   }
   else
   {
   $image = "<span class='related_posts_default_image related_posts_video'></span>";
   }

   }

   $output .= "<div class='relThumb relThumb".$count."'>\n";
   $output .= "\n";
   $output .= "<span class='related_image_wrap'>";
   $output .= "<span class='rounded_corner rctl'></span>";
   $output .= "<span class='rounded_corner rctr'></span>";
   $output .= "<span class='rounded_corner rcbl'></span>";
   $output .= "<span class='rounded_corner rcbr'></span>";
   $output .= $image;
   $output .= "</span>\n";
   $output .= "<span class='relThumbTitle'>\n";
   $output .= "<strong class='relThumbHeading'>".avia_backend_truncate(get_the_title(), 50)."\n";
   $output .= "</span>\n";
   $output .= "</div><!-- end .relThumb -->\n";

   $count++;

   if($count == $columns+1)
   {
   $output .= "</div>";
   $count = 1;
   }
   }
   endwhile;

   if($count != 1) $output .= "</div>";

   $output .= "</div></div>";
   if($reladed_posts) echo $output;

   }

   wp_reset_query();
   }
   }

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Ismael
   Moderator

   Hello,

   It should work by default. Did you edit anything on the file?

   Please reload the related-post.php and try again. :)

   Regards,

   Ismael

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   Poirot
   Member

   Hi Ismael,

   Thanks for helping out.

   No I didn't change anything. I updated part of the code (as indicated here on the forum) to activate related posts based on categories (instead of tags). But then switched it back to the original code.

   Some questions:

   1) Is the second line of the code correct? (value is false?)

   $reladed_posts = false;

   2) Is it necessary to upload extra thumbnails for the related posts, or should it automatically scale the featured image?

   Regards, Poirot

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   Poirot
   Member

   Hi,

   Solved. I deleted all tags, then created them again. That's it :-)

   Thanks anyway, great theme.

   Regards,

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   Mya
   

   Hi Poirot,

   Glad you figured it out! Let us know if you have more questions.

   Regards,
   Mya

   Posted 1 year ago #

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