[Plugin: PHP Code Widget] didnt work

Works fine for everybody else.

What a useful reply that is Samuel.

It doesn’t work for me either, I’m trying to use the following code, which works fine in the template, but not when I use it in the widget:

<?php $custom_taxterms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, 'tribe_events_cat', array('fields' => 'ids') );
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'tribe_events',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'orderby' => 'rand',
'tax_query' => array(
    array(
        'taxonomy' => 'tribe_events_cat',
        'field' => 'id',
        'terms' => $custom_taxterms
    )
),
'post__not_in' => array ($post->ID),
);
$related_items = new WP_Query( $args );
if ($related_items->have_posts()) :
echo '<div>';
while ( $related_items->have_posts() ) : $related_items->the_post();
?>
    <div>
    	<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
        <h5><meta itemprop="startDate" content="<?php echo tribe_get_start_date( null, false, 'Y-m-d-h:i:s' ); ?>"/><?php echo tribe_get_start_date(); ?></h5>
        <p><?php echo excerpt(20); ?></p>
    </div>
<?php
endwhile;
echo '</div>';
endif;
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

If your code doesn’t work in the widget, then something is wrong with your code. The widget just runs the code as-is, it doesn’t perform magic tricks.

In your case, the “$post” variable is not defined because you failed to declare it as a global. Code in templates run in the global variable scope. Code in the widget will run inside a function scope, and you need to account for that difference.

Much better thanks.

I appear to have fixed it by adding a simple global $post; at the top of the loop.