I am running a custom query below each post, to get other post from its category.
Now I want to exclude the current post. This is my Query:
<?php // related_posts();
$exclude_post = $post->ID;
$cats = get_the_category();
//$cats[0]->term_id;$cats[1]->term_id; //name
global $post;
$newQuery = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=5&orderby=rand&cat='.$cats[0]->term_id.'&post__not_in='.array($exclude_post).'');
if ( $newQuery->have_posts() ):?>
<ul>
<?php
while ( $newQuery->have_posts() ) : $newQuery->the_post(); ?>
<li>
<a title="<?php the_title();?>" href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?></a>
</li>
<?php
endwhile;?>
</ul>
<?php
endif;
?>
Now my query shows 0 results. The same, if I set the post which shall be excluded testwise to 1 or so.
What could be the error in my custom query?
Cheers
Lars
You are trying to supply an array as part of the string query parameter. You could instead just supply the arguments list as an array like this: