Custom Related Posts Query using Easy Posts Preset

This members-only tutorial provides the steps to add a section on single posts to display 4 random posts (excluding the current one) in the same category/categories as the current post for a custom "related posts" functionality in Oxygen.

We shall add the PHP code for this in a Code Block to

1. retrieve the current post's categories
2. store the array of category IDs in a variable
3. get comma-separated category IDs in a variable
4. write a WP_Query arguments array
5. write a basic loop to show post titles

and finally replace the above loop with PHP and CSS from the default Easy Posts component's preset.

Step 1

Edit the Template that applies to single blog posts with Oxygen.

Add a Section.

Add a Code Block inside.

PHP & HTML: