I would check out the Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus plugin which gives you a lot of arguments to pass to the “improved” next/prev link functions made by the plugin. I recently needed this type of functionality and this plugin worked great. With the plugin, you get to do stuff like this: <?php next_post_link_plus( array(‘in_cats’ … Read more
There is no parameter for taxonomy in that function. But you can use them to look for posts in the same ‘category’, i.e. they are hardcoded to work with only ‘category’ You might want to use this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/previous-and-next-post-in-same-taxonomy/
next/previous links on custom post single a little screwy
next_post_link and previous_post_link order not working properly
get_adjacent_post – in same term or category not working
previous_post_link( ‘<div class=”text-center video-text-btn”> %link </div> ‘, ‘pre’, $in_same_term = true, $excluded_terms=”Standard-post-format-name”, $taxonomy = ‘post_format’ );
posts_nav_link(); picks up index.php instead of category.php as template
Your code problem is you get only the first category of a post because $cat[0] is the first, not current. Inside The Loop: <?php previous_post_link( // prints the formatted link ‘<span>« %link</span>’, // beautifying around ‘Prev in this cat’, // the text (%link) to be used in the span above true, // confirm that you … Read more
Using ‘previous_post_link()’ & ‘next_post_link()’ on single attachment pages
If you’ll take a look at next_post_link Codex page, you’ll see it’s usage: <?php next_post_link( $format, $link, $in_same_term = false, $excluded_terms=””, $taxonomy = ‘category’ ); As you can see, third param is in_same_term and it’s default value is false. If you set it to true, then the function will return next post from same category. … Read more