I am running a custom query below each post, to get other post from its category. Now I want to exclude the current post. This is my Query:
<?php // related_posts();
$exclude_post = $post->ID;
$cats = get_the_category();
//$cats[0]->term_id;$cats[1]->term_id; //name
global $post;
$newQuery = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=5&orderby=rand&cat='.$cats[0]->term_id.'&post__not_in='.array($exclude_post).'');
if ( $newQuery->have_posts() ):?>
<ul>
<?php
while ( $newQuery->have_posts() ) : $newQuery->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a title="<?php the_title();?>" href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a>
</li>
<?php
endwhile;?>
</ul>
<?php
endif;
?>
Now my query shows 0 results. The same, if I set the post which shall be excluded testwise to 1 or so.
What could be the error in my custom query?
Cheers Lars