# Related posts
**URL:** https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274 "2019-12-06T08:59:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Awea](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Awea)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274/1 "2019-12-06T08:59:23Z")
Hi there,
I’m building a theme for Zola which require a related posts sections. Here is how I made the related posts list at the moment:
```auto
{% if category %}
{% set related_posts = get_section(path="posts/_index.md")
| get(key="pages")
| sort(attribute="date")
| filter(attribute="taxonomies.categories", value=[category])
| slice(end=3)
%}
{% for post in related_posts %}
{#
Since we cannot use a negative filter the only solution to remove the current page from the
related_posts is the following condition
#}
{% if post.permalink != page.permalink %}
{{ macros::post_item(post=post) }}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
```
The main problem is that I can’t filter the posts with a negative filter, like: `| filter(attribute="permalink", not_value=page.permalink)` so sometimes `related_posts` contains the current post and I need to filter using an if condition in the display loop. But this solution doesn’t suit me because I end with 2 posts in related posts instead of 3.
Am I missing something or there is no other solution at the moment to achieve that?
---
### Author:  [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274/2 "2019-12-06T15:07:38Z")
It seems like it would be easier to do something like:
```auto
{% set related_posts = get_taxonomy(kind="categories", term=post.category) %}
```
and just iterate on that with and skip the current page as you do. But the `term` argument or `get_taxonomy` doesn’t currently exist so you would need to compare the term in the loop.
There are no negative filters in Tera right now 😕 An `exclude` or something could be added to complement `filter`
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### Author:  [@Awea](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Awea)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274/3 "2019-12-07T10:48:55Z")
Hi @keats,
Thanks for your insight. My question wasn’t complete, I need to limit my `related_posts` to 3 items. So I ended writing something like this:
```auto
{% if category %}
{% set related_posts = get_taxonomy(kind="categories")
| get(key="items")
| filter(attribute="name", value=category)
| first
| get(key="pages")
%}
{% set_global related_posts_counter = 0 %}
{% if related_posts | length > 0 %}
{{ trans(key="related_posts", lang=lang) }}
{% for post in related_posts %}
{#
Since we cannot use a negative filter the only solution to remove the current page from the
related_posts and having max 3 related posts is the following condition - @awea 20191207
#}
{% if post.permalink != page.permalink and related_posts_counter <= 2 %}
{{ macros::post_item(post=post) }}
{% set_global related_posts_counter = related_posts_counter + 1 %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
```
The term argument in `get_taxonomy` would be great to only fetch the given category with its items ^^
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### Author:  [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274/4 "2019-12-08T08:14:50Z")
Yeah it’s quite verbose x)
I think the `term` argument makes sense to have, I’ll think about it today and create a GH issue for it if I don’t see any issues with it.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274/5 "2019-12-15T10:44:01Z")
Hey Awea, Keats,
I’ve tried to repeat that code to get related posts (it’s really valuable thing), but I can’t understand what I supposed to do, if I have two or more tags\categories per article?
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### Author:  [@Awea](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Awea)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/related-posts/274/6 "2019-12-15T13:41:04Z")
Hoy Roman,
The theme I’m working on use only **one category per post** and **multiple tags per post**. So I get the first **category** (the first because `taxonomies.categories` is a list) of the current post then I can use it in the `related_posts` above.
```auto
{% if page.taxonomies.categories %}
{% set category = page.taxonomies.categories | first %}
{{ category }}
{% endif %}
```
> but I can’t understand what I supposed to do, if I have two or more tags\categories per article?
You can still use the `set category` above. But If you want to work with multiple tags\categories and fetch `related_posts` using those taxonomies you’ll need to rewrite the `set related_posts` part.
Hope it helps.