Add to previous posts under post

Question

Goal: After each post (that contains under a certain amount of words), display the two posts that were published before it in that category/tab.

I found this on stack, where they do something similar, but they're displaying the 2 most recent posts. I want to display the 2 that were published before the currently-read article, though. Is there a way to modify this code?

Answer 1

Try to add date_query to the $qry in the solution mentioned here.

$qry = new WP_Query(
       array(
            'cat'            => $current_post_categories[0],
            'posts_per_page' => 2,
            'post__not_in'   => array( $current_post_id ),

            'date_query' => array(
                                 array(
                                     'before'     => $post->post_date,
                                 ),
                            ),

              ));