WordPress related posts with the same taxonomy, but not the current post

Question

I am trying to query other posts with the same taxonomy but to exclude the current post (of a custom post type).

I used an excellent post on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21088161/wordpress-wp-query-related-posts-based-on-taxonomy#21088299) and used it for my purpose, and have tried to exclude the current post with "post__not_in" as you can see from the below code however it does not seem to work.

<?php
$post_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'article_tag', array('fields'=>'ids'));

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'article',
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'article_tag',
            'field' => 'id',
            'terms' => $post_terms,
            'post__not_in' => array($post->ID)
        )
    )
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
        echo '<ul>';
    while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
        $the_query->the_post();
        ?>
                    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
            <?php
    }
        echo '</ul>';
} else {
    console.log("No related posts found.");
}
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

Answer 1 · 2015-08-26T01:52:28Z

August 26, 2015 1:52am

I see 2 errors in code preventing this from working. Both are in the Tax Query.

First, it should be term_id instead of id for the field parameter

Second, 'post__not_in' => array($post->ID) should be moved outside of the Tax Query

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