It is possible to add the “Related Posts” output directly into your site’s PHP files. The best approach is to use the PHP to include the shortcode inside a PHP snippet, as in this example below. Legacy PHP Code There is also a legacy option allows you to make choices directly in the PHP code. This is the basic code snippet: Here are examples of how you can customize that basic code with more details: ‘number’ => 5, ‘order’ => ‘count-desc’, ‘format’ => ‘list’, ‘include_page’ => ‘true’, ‘exclude_posts’ => ”, ‘exclude_tags’ => ”, ‘post_id’ => ”, ‘except_wrap’ => ’55’, ‘limit_days’ => ‘0’, ‘title’ => __(‘
Related posts #
‘, ‘simpletags’), ‘nopoststext’ => __(‘No related posts.’, ‘simpletags’), ‘dateformat’ => $this->dateformat, ‘xformat’ => __(‘%post_title% (%post_comment%)’, ‘simpletags’) Here is an example of that legacy code in use. We want to show the first 10 related post without title, without pages and without comments count. %title%’); ?> Here are all the legacy code parameters: number (integer) Number of posts to show order (string) Order posts sorting. Valid values are : count-desc – (default) by number of common tags (most relevance) count-asc – by number of common tags (less relevance) date-desc – by publication’s date descending date-asc – by publication’s date ascending name-asc – by title ascending name-desc – by title descending random – random format (string) show tags as non ordered list UL/LI flat – (Default) posts are separated with spaces list – posts are inside non ordered lists containing class=’related_posts’ array -posts are inside a PHP array (use it with st_get_related_posts()) include_page (boolean) “true” to add pages, “false” only for posts exclude_posts (string) Separate posts ID to exclude with commas exclude_tags (string) Separate tags ID to exclude with commas post_id (integer) Specified post ID for display related posts except_wrap (integer) Words number for excerpt. limit_days (string) Limit result with a max days title (string) Specify the positioned title before the list nopoststext (string) Specify the text to show when there is no related post dateformat (string) Specify the date format. Same format as PHP date function xformat (string) Extended links format. Available Markups : post_date – Replaced by the date of the post post_permalink – Replaced by the permalink of the link post_title – Replaced by the title of the post post_comment – Replaced by the comments count of the post post_tagcount – Replaced by the number of common tags post_id – Replaced by the ID of the post post_relatedtags – Replaced by common tag list post_excerpt – Replaced by post excerpt