Thanks for writing this post, I found it very useful when all the WP plug-in available did not do the job. As a designer and developer of WP themes. This helped me take things to the next level on my blog.

is there an way to tell the code just to show the category i am already reading?
example: a post ist listed in category 1,2,3. when i am reading the post in cat 1, i get the recent posts of cat 1 in the buttom of the page. if i am reading this post in cat 2, i get the posts of cat 2 …

thx for help … and sorry for my bad english )

So line 14 would look like this:

$newQuery = "posts_per_page=6&orderby=rand&cat=-3,-6,-8," . $catlist;

The number is the ID of that category and you can list as many as you want. The minus in front means you want it excluded.

To exclude certain categories from the related posts by authors you would insert “cat=-3,-6,-8″ into line 9.

It would look like this:

$newQuery = "posts_per_page=6&cat=-3,-6,-8&orderby=rand&author=" . $authorPosts;

To exclude categories from the related post by tag, you would insert this line AFTER line 13:

'cat'=>-3,-6,-8,

For all of these, if you instead wanted it to show ONLY certain categories then it would be the same, but list the category IDs without a minus in front. Then it would find posts ONLY in those categories.

nice code! is there a way to exclude some categories from the list?

thx for help!!
mw

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I promise I’m not trying to advertise in your comments, but then I don’t have ads so nothing to advertise. I just want people to know that I’ll happily help with their blogger templates no matter where they get them.

I don’t, however, do Word Press templates so I’m hoping that you’ll be coming up with something new for this year.

I love the clean, swank look of the pink midnight template.
I’ll link to you for people using WP.

Everyone should be able to show their support.

Unfortunately the link to pinkforoctober.org is no longer valid. People can get the badge here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_for_October