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Is the previous post in the same category as the current post?
Indicates whether previous post must be within the same taxonomy term as the current post. If set to ‘true’, only posts from the current taxonomy term will be displayed. If the post is in both the parent and subcategory, or more than one term, the previous post link will lead to the previous post in any of those terms.
How to get the category of a post in WordPress?
Retrieves post categories. This tag may be used outside The Loop by passing a post ID as the parameter. Note: This function only returns results from the default “category” taxonomy. For custom taxonomies use get_the_terms (). (int) (Optional) The post ID.
As you can see there’s a boolean parameter named ‘in_same_term’. Indicates whether previous post must be within the same taxonomy term as the current post. If set to ‘true’, only posts from the current taxonomy term will be displayed.
Can a previous post lead to another post?
If the post is in both the parent and subcategory, or more than one term, the previous post link will lead to the previous post in any of those terms. More documentation for those functions here.
How to display next and prev posts in WordPress?
Display post thumbnails alongside the links (WordPress 2.9 or higher). Truncate the link titles to any length, and display custom text in the tooltip. Display the title, date, author, category, and meta value of the next/previous links. Specify a custom date format for the %date variable.
How to find the next post in WordPress?
Loop around to the first post if there is no next post (and vice versa). Retrieve the first/last post, rather than the previous/next post (for First|Previous|Next|Last navigation links). Display post thumbnails alongside the links (WordPress 2.9 or higher). Truncate the link titles to any length, and display custom text in the tooltip.