How to show Next Post using current Id in WordPress? - php

Question

I'm making a WordPress theme. I made a grid structure shown below,
It contains two rows, and every row has three columns. I want to show random posts from my WordPress database in this grid.
This is my code
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12">
<div class="rst-mediagrid">
<div class="div">
<?php
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 6,
'offset' => 0,
'category' => '2',
'category_name' => '',
'orderby' => 'date',
'include' => '',
'exclude' => '',
'meta_key' => '',
'meta_value' => '',
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_mime_type' => '',
'post_parent' => '',
'author' => '',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'suppress_filters' => true
);
global $post;
$post = get_post($args);
$next_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', false, 'taxonomy_slug' );
?>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-50">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID); //latest post thumbnail ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php //endif; ?>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic rst-postvideo">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($next_post->ID); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($next_post->ID); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<div class="div">
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($next_post->ID); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic rst-postvideo">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($next_post->ID); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-50">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($next_post->ID); ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The above code repeats the same image that I want to show thumbnails for in a perfect order, like the first row has three columns, and the first column has the latest image second column has image of previous post and third column has image of previous of previous mean 3rd post from latest post and second row also has same things.
If you have better suggestion kindly tell me.

Answer 1

use this It does not need to use id of current post as argument.
<?php echo get_next_post(); ?>

Answer 2

at last i found a solution of my question if some one else have same issue then use this
<?php
global $post;
$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => 9,'orderby'=>rand) );
$posts = array();
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) :
$items = array();
$items['link']=wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ));
$items['Image'] = get_the_post_thumbnail($loop->the_post());
$items['LinkPost']=get_permalink($post->ID);
$items['Title']=get_the_title($post->ID);
$items['PostTime']=get_the_time('M d,Y', $post->ID);
array_push($posts, $items);
endwhile;
for($i = 1; $i< count($posts); $i++){
?>
<?php
if($i==1){
?>
<div class="div">
<div class="rst-col rst-col-50">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<img src="<?php echo $posts[$i+1]['link']; ?>" alt="" style="height: 385px;width: 770px"/>
</div>
<div class="rst-postinfo">
<span>Sport</span>
<h6><?php echo $posts[$i]['Title']; ?></h6>
<time><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php echo $posts[$i]['PostTime']; ?></time>
</div>
</div>
<?php //endif; ?>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic rst-postvideo">
<img src="<?php echo $posts[$i+2]['link']; ?>" alt="" style="height: 385px;width: 770px"/>
</div>
<div class="rst-postinfo">
<span>Sport</span>
<h6><?php echo $posts[$i+1]['Title']; ?></h6>
<time><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php echo $posts[$i+1]['PostTime']; ?></time>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<img src="<?php echo $posts[$i+3]['link']; ?>" alt="" style="height: 385px;width: 770px"/>
</div>
<div class="rst-postinfo">
<span>Sport</span>
<h6><?php echo $posts[$i+2]['Title']; ?></h6>
<time><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php echo $posts[$i+2]['PostTime']; ?></time>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!-- end first row-->
<?php } //end if ?>
<?php
if($i == 2 ){
?>
<div class="div">
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<img src="<?php echo $posts[$i+1]['link']; ?>" alt="" style="height: 385px;width: 770px"/>
</div>
<div class="rst-postinfo">
<span>Sport</span>
<h6><?php echo $posts[$i]['Title']; ?></h6>
<time><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php echo $posts[$i]['PostTime']; ?></time>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-25">
<div class="rst-postpic rst-postvideo">
<img src="<?php echo $posts[$i+2]['link']; ?>" alt="" style="height: 385px;width: 770px"/>
</div>
<div class="rst-postinfo">
<span>Sport</span>
<h6><?php echo $posts[$i+1]['Title']; ?></h6>
<time><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php echo $posts[$i+1]['PostTime']; ?></time>
</div>
</div>
<div class="rst-col rst-col-50">
<div class="rst-postpic">
<img src="<?php echo $posts[$i+3]['link']; ?>" alt="" style="height: 385px;width: 770px"/>
</div>
<div class="rst-postinfo">
<span>Sport</span>
<h6><?php echo $posts[$i+2]['Title']; ?></h6>
<time><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i><?php echo $posts[$i+2]['PostTime']; ?></time>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!--end second row-->
<?php
}//end if
}//end for loop ?>
if some have better suggestion kindly post you answer here and also any logical issue in my code then also tell me