Help with wordpress code, php

[Marcelo]

Hello friends!

I had to ask you this because I cant find the answer anywhere and it is interesting.

Basically I want to list recent articles from a tag, but the tag would be dynamic (the title of the post).

For example, the post "Red Roses" would have a code to show recent articles with the tag "red roses".

I tried to do that but I could not put the call for "post title" inside the php of the recent posts.

Can you suggest something for me?

Thanks!

[Peter Willis]

I know what you need to do, but I'm not technically minded enough to do it for you.

The reason it won't work "out of the box", so to speak, is that you need to convert the spaces in the_title(); to be -'s.

i.e. your query post will need to be something along these lines:

query_posts( "tag=".$convertedtitle ); 

Before you do your query posts though, you'll need to do something like this (in proper code).

$convertedtitle = convert ' ' in the_title(); to '-' 

[Race Media]

That's a basic "related posts" query by tag.

Search for wp_query related posts by tag and you'll find the code you want.

[Peter Willis]

It's not as basic as that, since he needs to use the title of the current post in the tag query.

[Mike]

instead of "the_title()", you probably need to use "get_the_title()"

[Race Media]

Its nearly worth going about this a different way I think

Why not set up a custom field that automatically (programatically) gets entered with the "title tag" you want when you post.

That way its a simple custom field wp_query and you don't need to mess around with trying to get the current title.

<?php $your_custom_field = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'your_custom_field', true); if($your_custom_field): ?>
        <?php echo $your_custom_field; ?>
        <ul>
        <?php $your_list = get_posts('numberposts=-1&meta_key=series&orderby=date&order=ASC&meta_value='.$your_custom_field); foreach($your_list as $your_list):?>
            <li><?php if($your_list->ID != $post->ID): ?><a href ="<?php echo get_permalink($your_list->ID); ?>"><?php endif; echo $your_list->post_title; ?></a></li>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
        </ul>
<?php endif; ?>

[Marcelo]

Excellent idea, race. Will try that. Thanks!