ive been playing around with this for ages and for some reason I cant get it to work.
This is from within the single post page of a custom post type...
Basically I am getting the category of the custom post type by using the get_the_term and then doing a foreach to nicely input into a string.
I then use a WP_Query to retrieve, but I think I have the logic wrong.
This is what I have
// post types query
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) :the_post();
// getting the categories
$categorynames = '';
$getcategory = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'custompostnamehere-categories');
foreach($getcategory as $t){ $categorynames .= $t->term_id.' ,';}
if (substr($categorynames, -1) == ',') {
$categorynames = substr($categorynames, 0, -1);
}
// end of post type query
endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query();
//starting new query to get related posts within the same categories
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'custompostnamehere',
'cat' => $categorynames,
'posts_per_page' => 20
);
$q = new WP_Query($args);
// retrieving the data
while($q->have_posts()){
}
Could someone please enlighten me on my wrong doings.
Thanks