Exclude current post from WP Query

August 23rd, 2011

There are times when you don’t want the current post/page you are viewing to show on the page i.e. list of recent posts, more posts from the same category and so on. Here’s how to remove that post from your query.

In my situation I had a list of posts from a certain category that I wanted to include in the sidebar (I used the php code widget to add php to my sidebar widget) but I didn’t want the post I was currently on to be displayed in that list. So here’s the code I used:

So, in the code below “get_the_ID” is fetching the ID of the current post, “cat” is indicating the category I want to show posts from, “showposts” is indicating how many posts I would like to display and then finally “post__not_in” is getting the current post ID and then excluding it from the query.

<?php
$currentID = get_the_ID();
$my_query = new WP_Query( array('cat' => '1', 'showposts' => '5', 'post__not_in' => array($currentID)));
while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php

$currentID = get_the_ID();

$my_query = new WP_Query( array('cat' => '1', 'showposts' => '5', 'post__not_in' => array($currentID)));

while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

Thomas Wiese

thnx this has has helped me alot 🙂
Anonymous

Thanks for the code – perfect. Just watch for the — on line 3. Needed to be => for me.
- Anonymous
  
  Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve now amended the code so all should be working well.
  - chris
    
    Thanks again, simple and beautiful.
    How to sort by date published (this guy is always asking for more)
Aaron Weber

Perfect, thanks so much.
hosseincode

tnq mod
Jacob Stoops

Thanks for this. Worked like a charm!
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while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
WoutervanderZee

Thanks Alan, just what I was looking for!
Marcos Nakamine

Thanks
Francesco Cortese

Great, thanks!
chris

Excellent !
Could you help make the title clickable ?
Thanks,
Chris
- daretothink
  
  Hi. I’ve just included this on the example above. It’s the_permalink
david

this helped me out 🙂
thanks!
醉拳

Thanks for this post. It’s still very useful.
Debendra Maharjan

To the point, thank you
Rodrigo Zuluaga

Thanks!!