[Resolved] Related blogposts on product detailpage

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[dimitriH]

Tell us what you are trying to do?

I'm trying to show related blogposts (based on tag) on a product detailpage where product name equals tag name.
I've set up blogposts with a custom tag that is the same as the product name.

Example:
On hidden link (product detail page), I want to show blogposts with tag 'acrylinject-r'.

How do you set up the view's query filter to achieve this?

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[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

On your product details template you should try to add a view and set it to query the content type (post type) you want to display the posts and then add a taxonomy filter for tags and select the option "Value set by the current page where this View is shown".

More info:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/legacy-features/views-plugin/filtering-views-by-taxonomy/

Please check how you can create view:
- https://toolset.com/course-lesson/creating-a-view/

[dimitriH]

Hi Minesh,
Thanks for looking into this.

Your proposed solution requires both content types (blogposts and products) to use the same tag.
Is it possible to use the tag's slug (blogposts) and get it from the URL (products) for comparisson?

To clarify:
Blogpost has tag 'Acrylic R'. So, the slug for that tag is 'acrylic-r'.
The product URL is '/product/acrylic-r/'
Is it possible to get the second part from the URL as well?
I feel - since this is a permalink - we should be able to fetch a parameter from the URL.
Maybe something like wpv-tag-slug?

Cheers

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

What posts you want to display, you want to display posts from default post type post or from the product post type?

As I understand - you want to display posts from default post type post that has the tag assigned as "acrylic-r"and you have a product with title that has "acrylic-r" - correct?

[dimitriH]

Correct Minesh.
I want to display default post type and we've set up 'product' as a custom type (not WooCommerce's post type 'product').

Default post type:
Tag ="Acrylic R"
Tag slug ="acrylic-r"

Custom post type (product):
URL: /product/acrylic-r/

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

You can use the view's filter "wpv_filter_query" hook to filter the view query on fly.

More info:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_query

You should create a view by adding the view block to your single product details content template and set the view to query the default post type "post" add the things you want to display within the loop editor.

Then,
You can add the following view filter to "Custom Code" section offered by Toolset:
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/adding-custom-code/using-toolset-to-add-custom-code/

add_filter('wpv_filter_query', 'func_show_related_posts', 99, 3);
function func_show_related_posts( $query_args, $view_settings, $view_id ) {
    
    if($view_id == 99999){

      $tag_slug = explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

$found_tag = get_term_by('slug', $tag_slug,'post_tag');
if($found_tag) {
      
      $query_args['tax_query'] => array(
        	array(
            	'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
            	'field' => 'slug',
            	'terms' => $tag_slug,
           		'operator'=> 'IN'
        	));
     }
   }
    return $query_args;
}

Where:
- Replace 99999 with your original view ID

Check on frontend I hope the solution shared above will help you to resolve your issue.

[dimitriH]

There are 2 small errors in the snippet you provided.
A syntax error on line 11 ("=>" should be "=")
Your passing an array to get_term_by() while it is expecting a string.

This snippet is working for us:

add_filter('wpv_filter_query', 'func_show_related_posts', 99, 3);
function func_show_related_posts( $query_args, $view_settings, $view_id ) {
     
    if($view_id == 713){
 
      $tag_slug = explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
	  //print_r($tag_slug); 
	  //RESULT: Array ( [0] => [1] => product [2] => acrylinject-r [3] => )
	
      $found_tag = get_term_by('slug', $tag_slug[2],'post_tag');

	  if($found_tag) {
       
      $query_args['tax_query'] = array(
            array(
                'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
                'field' => 'slug',
                'terms' => $tag_slug,
                'operator'=> 'IN'
            ));
     }
   }
    return $query_args;
}

Thanks for pointing us in the right direction, Minesh.

[dimitriH]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!