Previous Next Post Navigation for Multiple Post Types at once

Previous and Next Navigation for both Posts and Pages.
To create these beautiful navigation arrows I used get_previous_post() and get_next_post() functions.

WordPress has a great action hook that allows to change WHERE statement and affects all of the prev/next navigation functions.


add_action( 'get_previous_post_where', 'misha_posts_and_page', 20 );
add_action( 'get_next_post_where', 'misha_posts_and_page', 20 );
 
function misha_posts_and_page( $where ){
	// $where looks like WHERE p.post_date < '2017-08-02 09:07:03' AND p.post_type = 'post' AND ( p.post_status = 'publish' OR p.post_status = 'private' )
	// In code $where looks like $wpdb->prepare( "WHERE p.post_date $op %s AND p.post_type = %s $where", $post->post_date, $post->post_type )
	// Parameters $op and another $where can not be passed to this action hook
	// So, I think the best way is to use str_replace()
	return str_replace(
		array( "p.post_type = 'post'", "p.post_type = 'page'" ),
		"(p.post_type = 'post' OR p.post_type = 'page')",
		$where
	);
 
}

For three post types the str_replace() part of the code will look like this:

return str_replace(
	array( "p.post_type = 'post'", "p.post_type = 'page'", "p.post_type = 'product'" ),
	"(p.post_type = 'post' OR p.post_type = 'page' OR p.post_type = 'product')",
	$where
);

This action hook affects all the post prev/next navigation functions, such as next_post_link(), previous_post_link(), get_previous_post_link(), get_next_post_link(), adjacent_post_link(), get_adjacent_post_link(), the_post_navigation(), get_previous_post(), get_next_post, get_adjacent_post()

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