Query posts that have at least 3 of the tags of the current post

Question

I'm trying to find a way to query posts on that have at least X tags in common with the current post. This example is close but I don't want to have to nominate which tags.

//List of tag slugs
$tags = array('SOMEHOW INCLUDE ALL TAGS');

$args = array(
    'tag_slug__in' => $tags
    //Add other arguments here
);

// This query contains posts with at least one matching tag
$tagged_posts = new WP_Query($args);

echo '<ul>';
while ( $tagged_posts->have_posts() ) : $tagged_posts->the_post();
   // Check each single post for up to 3 matching tags and output <li>
   $tag_count = 0;
   $tag_min_match = 2;
   foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {
      if ( has_tag( $tag ) && $tag_count < $tag_min_match ) {
         $tag_count ++;
      }
   }
   if ($tag_count == $tag_min_match) {
      //Echo list style here
      echo '<li><a href="'. get_permalink() .'" title="'. get_the_title() .'">'. get_the_title() .'</a></li>';
   }
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
echo '</ul>';

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this

<?php
//List of tag slugs
$tags = array();

$posttags = get_the_tags();
if ($posttags) {
  foreach($posttags as $tag) {
    $tags[] = $tag->term_id; 
  }
}

$args = array(
    'tag__in' => $tags
    //Add other arguments here
);

// This query contains posts with at least one matching tag
$tagged_posts = new WP_Query($args);

echo '<ul>';
while ( $tagged_posts->have_posts() ) : $tagged_posts->the_post();
   // Check each single post for up to 3 matching tags and output <li>
   $tag_count = 0;
   $tag_min_match = 2;
   foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {
      if ( has_tag( $tag ) && $tag_count < $tag_min_match ) {
         $tag_count ++;
      }
   }
   if ($tag_count >= $tag_min_match) {
      //Echo list style here
      echo '<li><a href="'. get_permalink() .'" title="'. get_the_title() .'">'. get_the_title() .'</a></li>';
   }
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
echo '</ul>';

The code will fetch all the tags associated with the current post, search other posts with similar tags and return post if 2 or more tags are matched.

Hope this helps.