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POCalling a Custom Post Type for Related Author Posts
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    copied!<p>Does anyone know how to call a custom post type (CPT) in the <code>get_related_author_posts()</code> query? </p> <p>I am using the function in my functions.php file and then calling it in a CPT template with <code>&lt;?php echo get_related_author_posts(); ?&gt;</code> so that links to other content and content types by the same author can appear in the template.</p> <p>All the research I have done suggests that I should be able to achieve what I want by adding the CPT query <code>'post_type' =&gt; 'webarticle'</code> to the function. </p> <p>Seems straightforward, right? </p> <p>But this is not working for me. Below is my code. Any tips on how to do this or where I am going wrong would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!</p> <pre><code>function get_related_author_posts() { global $authordata, $post; $authors_posts = get_posts( array( 'author' =&gt; $authordata-&gt;ID, 'post_type' =&gt; 'webarticle', 'post__not_in' =&gt; array( $post-&gt;ID ), 'posts_per_page' =&gt; 5 ) ); $output = ''; foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) { $output .= '&lt;p&gt;' . '&lt;a href="' . get_permalink( $authors_post-&gt;ID ) . '"&gt;' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $authors_post-&gt;post_title, $authors_post-&gt;ID ) . '&lt;/a&gt;' . '&lt;/p&gt;' ; } $output .= ''; return $output; } </code></pre> <p><strong>Here is new markup -- still not working -- with the <code>wp_reset_query()</code> function added.</strong> </p> <pre><code>function get_related_author_posts() { global $authordata, $post; $authors_posts = get_posts ( array( 'author' =&gt; $authordata-&gt;ID, 'post__not_in' =&gt; array( $post-&gt;ID ), 'posts_per_page' =&gt; 5 ) ); wp_reset_query() $args = array('post_type' =&gt; 'webarticle'); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) { while ( $query-&gt;have_posts() ) { $query-&gt;the_post(); //code for each post from query// $output = '&lt;ul&gt;'; foreach ( $authors_posts as $authors_post ) { $output .= '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="' . get_permalink( $authors_post-&gt;ID ) . '"&gt;' . apply_filters( 'the_title', $authors_post-&gt;post_title, $authors_post-&gt;ID ) . '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;'; } $output .= '&lt;/ul&gt;'; return $output; } } } </code></pre>
 

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