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I have installed Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus and I'm not sure how to configure it to achieve what I'm looking for.

I have a post category like below:

Parent category -> Sub category -> Post

If I use the traditional WP next_post links I can use TRUE or FALSE to cycle through either all posts on the site or the posts in the sub category.

How can I configure either Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus or the standard WP links to cycle through the posts that belong to the parent category and not just the sub category?

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That should be default behavior, provided that the checkbox of the parent category was checked. From the codex: "If the post is in both the parent and subcategory, or more than one category, the next post link will lead to the next post in any of those categories."

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  • This did work when the parent and sub category were selected you are right, but having the parent and sub category selected breaks our inherited background images, which have a higher priority. Jan 11, 2013 at 12:37
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    There might be an alternative solution for you, I'll post it as a separate answer
    – diggy
    Jan 11, 2013 at 13:24
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  1. Put following function in functions.php. It adds the IDs of the (sub)categories and their parents to an array, removes duplicates and returns the array:

    function wpse80138_get_cat_ids( $post_id )
    {
        $array = array();
        $cats = get_the_category( $post_id );
        foreach( $cats as $cat ) {
            $array[] = $cat->term_id;
            // parents
            if( $cat->category_parent ) 
                $array[] = $cat->category_parent;
            // children
            $subs = get_categories( 'child_of=' . $cat->term_id );
            foreach( $subs as $sub )
                $array[] = $sub->term_id;
        }
        return implode( ',', array_unique( $array ) );
    }
    
  2. Use the function with Ambrosite:

    $cats = wpse80138_get_cat_ids( get_the_ID() );
    next_post_link_plus( array( 'in_cats' => $cats ) );
    
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  • hi Diggy, Thanks for the code, when used this function doesn't render anything? its being used like so: <?php $cats = wpse80138_get_cat_ids( get_the_ID() ); ?> <?php previous_post_link_plus( array( 'in_cats' => $cats ) ); ?> | <?php next_post_link_plus( array( 'in_cats' => $cats ) ); ?> any ideas? Jan 14, 2013 at 5:06
  • @dodgerogers Seems like the array needs to be converted to a string. I updated the code in my answer. I also added a few lines to check for subcategories. Should work fine now!
    – diggy
    Jan 14, 2013 at 10:46

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