Get related posts excluding current post in Craft 3

Question

In Craft 3, I’m trying to get the five most recent other posts sharing a category with the current post. I got this far:

{% for relatedPost in craft.entries.relatedTo(entry.newsCategory).limit(5) %}

That gets five posts sharing the current post’s category, including the current post if it happens to be recently posted. How do I exclude the current post from the returned results, without just dropping it from the five so I’m only left with four?

Answer 1

To exclude the current post use the current post's id with a "not" clause in the id query param.

{% for relatedPost in craft.entries.relatedTo(entry.newsCategory).id('not ' ~ entry.id).limit(5).all() %}