theirritablevegan

I can't believe this is not a standard feature and that more people are not requesting it! 🙄 I've seen a number of paid 3rd party plugins that do this very thing, so it can obviously be easily done. I don't see why I should have to pay a 3rd party on top of my paid squarespace business plan in order to achieve such a basic function. 😡
I contacted support about this issue and received a very polite but useless reply. Basically the options were;
1. Add specific tags to every single post I want to feature as a related post. This is a ridiculous suggestion!
It would need to be done on every single post, every single time. If you want a post to show up as a related post on multiple posts you would need to add a seperate tag for each unique post so the tags would get crazy long. You would also need to hide tags for every post so all those random tags don't show up and confuse the reader. It would also mean that the related posts do not refresh by category unless you manually deleted and added new tags to every post on a regular basis. 2. Use custom code. The whole reason I use Squarespace is because I don't know how, and don't want to learn or deal with custom coding. Squarespace will not provide any support for custom code so even if I was willing to give it a go I wouldn't know what code to use or where to start.
I'd love to hear if anyone has any updates or advice on custom code that:
Hides the active post from the related posts of the same category on that specific post Does not then hide the active post from showing up as a related post on other active posts Allows the related posts to update over time based on new blog posts added to that specific category Does not require to hide tags on each post or manually add unique tags to each post I'd be really interested to hear from anyone using a theme that has the related posts function included in it's design. Does it automatically hide the active post? If so is there a way to reverse engineer a solution using the same code?
Am I wrong to think that it really doesn't seem like a big ask for such basic functionality?

OK, I nearly cried then because I thought it had worked. It does work on the latest article but not the previous ones. It actually takes the latest article out of the other summary blocks in the previous articles. Does that make sense?
You are still bloody amazing though. I'm so grateful for your efforts. 

That's exactly the point where I'm up to. I could not find any solution to this either.
 It's extraordinary that you can't exclude posts and only include one category... It's SUCH an oversight. VERY annoying. Thanks for your reply. 

Does anyone have a solution for this question? I'm running into the same issue and I'm certain there has to be a way to resolve this?

I can't for the life of me figure out how to hide the active post in a summary block for blogs. So for instance, I want to feature a summary block showing "Related Posts," so I set it to the category of the current post, but the current post that the user is reading will still show up in the summary block. Is there a way to prevent that? There's no reason a user would want to click a link to the post they're already on, obviously.
This is on the Nueva template, though I haven't seen the feature in any template I've used.