Displaying related posts is a very great way to help visitors staying longer on your blog. You can use a plugin, but you also can use tags and a custom code to show related posts. Let’s see how to do!
This code will display related posts based on the current post tag(s). It must be pasted within the loop.
<?php //for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on //current post $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID); if ($tags) { echo 'Related Posts'; $first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id; $args=array( 'tag__in' => array($first_tag), 'post__not_in' => array($post->ID), 'showposts'=>5, 'caller_get_posts'=>1 ); $my_query = new WP_Query($args); if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?> <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title=" Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a></p> <?php endwhile; } } ?> |
