Using bw_related to find posts in a category related to a CPT fieldref value

In this post we demonstrate an example of the bw_related shortcode to find posts related to a particular field value through a matching category value. List posts which are in the category determined by the value of the field _oikp_slug associated to the post referenced by the current value of the _plugin_ref field for this post. i.e. List posts categorised in “oik-fields”, including this one.

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• Using bw_related to find posts in a category related to a CPT fieldref value

Notes

• This is a rather convoluted example.
• It was created primarily to demonstrate the power and complexity of the bw_related shortcode
• It uses the concept of field references ( fieldref ) where the field value used is from a field associated with a referenced post.
• The bw_related shortcode determines that the value for the category_name= parameter can’t be an actual category_name slug so it looks up the value to use.
• In this case, since there is a string before the period (.), it recognises this as a fieldref.

See also

• [bw_related]
• oik-fields

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