Hi I have created my own custom post type within Wordpress to contain projects that i can call via my theme files.
I am new to creating my own themes. I currently am using the following code in my single.php file to call in related articles based on the category of the blog post.
<?php
// Default arguments
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 3, // How many items to display
'post__not_in' => array( get_the_ID() ), // Exclude current post
'no_found_rows' => true, // We don't ned pagination so this speeds up the query
);
// Check for current post category and add tax_query to the query arguments
$cats = wp_get_post_terms( get_the_ID(), 'category' );
$cats_ids = array();
foreach( $cats as $wpex_related_cat ) {
$cats_ids[] = $wpex_related_cat->term_id;
}
if ( ! empty( $cats_ids ) ) {
$args['category__in'] = $cats_ids;
}
// Query posts
$wpex_query = new wp_query( $args );
// Loop through posts
foreach( $wpex_query->posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<div class="col-md-4 related-post">
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('large'); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</div>
<?php
// End loop
endforeach;
// Reset post data
wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
In my new post type "projects" i would like to call in related projects. Which im assuming would be very similar code except i need to stop it looking for posts and instead look for my projects.
Here is my code for new post type:
// Projects
add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );
add_post_type_support( 'bw_projects', 'thumbnail' );
add_post_type_support( 'bw_projects', 'custom-fields' );
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'bw_projects',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'Projects' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Projects' )
),
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'taxonomies' => array( 'category','post_tag'),
)
);
}
What would i need to change in my first code snippet in order to look for bw_projects and not look for 'posts' anymore. I tried playing around and changing certain lines myself but i caused more issues and stopped the page loading. Is this even right i can use the same code, slightly altered or would i need something completely different?
Thanks in advance.