Post looper to not display current post

[hyperdrive_boom]

Good afternoon, within blog posts I have created a layout which displays two other blog posts at random at the bottom that the user may be interested in - funny enough I have called this section ‘You may also be interested in’

I have this via the posts ‘loop’:

How can I have it so it does show the current post it is within. So for example if I am on the post ‘A Few Observations on the Medieval Moated Manor House’ it does not show that in the loop:

Thank you!
Jason

[prakash_s]

Hello @hyperdrive_boom,

Thanks for writing to us.

I checked your settings, and it seems that you have set the post order as random, which is randomly displaying the posts.

In case you want to display the related post, including current posts. I would suggest you please set the Looper provider as a query string and add this query string.

 category__in={{dc:term:id}}&post_type=post&posts_per_page=2 

Thanks

[hyperdrive_boom]

Good evening and thank you for this,

I would like it so it shows any posts apart from the current post it the user is reading. What would the updated query string be for this?

Thank you!
Jason

[tristup]

Hi Jason,

You need to exclude the current post id in the Query String by adding the post__not_in. You can get more details on the post__not_in in the following thread.

How to exclude current post from recent posts

Howdy, @dajanorganics! Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion here. I’ve checked with @alexander on this and asked him to take a look at things to see what the status might be on this feature. It is possible that the final implementation did not get rolled in to this last release due to various reasons, but we definitely plan to have something in for it down the road. That being said, I wanted to get you a working bit of code for the time being to help tide you over. To do this, I us…

Hope it helps.
Thanks

[hyperdrive_boom]

Good morning and thank you very much for the reply - based on what you sent I put this together:

post_type=post&posts_per_page=2&post__not_in%5B0%5D={{dc:post:id}}

At first it only seemed to work when a user was logged in but it seems to be find now for everyone

Thank you!
Jason

[prakash_s]

Hello Jason,

Glad that we were able to help you and you were able to edit the query as per your requirements and achieve the solution.

Thanks