Wordpress plugin for interlinking

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BlueYonder

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I'm looking all day long for a plugin that will create a link bar within a post to other relevant posts. So far I have downloaded about 10 of them, and none of them do what I want or I don't know how to use them.

As an example, let's say you have an article about growing tomatoes. Within the post would be a listing of related links, such as growing cucumbers and onions.

Another post about greenhouses would have a link bar about orchids and greenhouse pests. Etc.
 


Do you mean a plugin that shows similar posts automatically? Use Similar Posts, you can specify where it should look for matches (tags, title, content...):
All Things Seen and Unseen » Similar Posts

If you want to build a list manually for each post, and you are talking about formatting them the same across every post (but you insert the links manually), then you can use custom fields.
 
I'm really knocking myself out with this and getting nothing done.

The Similar Posts widget adds the info to the sidebar and I don't want that because I'm trying to insert related links into posts - not to appear in the sidebar which is sitewide.

Custom fields is driving me crazy because I don't know how to code, and I'm getting the drift that the info I put in there is going into the metadata and the template.

This has been frustrating me for hours, and I can't stand it anymore. I think I'll just make templates based on different topics, and use them before I write the post. The links I want in the post will already be in there.

I also have about two dozen piles of widget download crap to clean up now. Thanks for the link though.
 
BlueYonder said:
The Similar Posts widget adds the info to the sidebar and I don't want that because I'm trying to insert related links into posts - not to appear in the sidebar which is sitewide.
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You gotta read the instructions. The sidebar widget is a feature of Similar Posts, not its only feature. You can add the functionality to your single.php by putting

Code: 
<?php similar_posts(); ?>

or, even better,

Code: 
<?php if(function_exists('similar_posts')) { similar_posts(); } ?>

under the_content or so. Use the 2nd line to make sure that the plugin doesnt break the page if it doesnt work.

You will also need to install the post-plugin library, comes as another WP plugin, for this plugin to work. Read the manual on the page!
 
I installed the library because got the message early on that the widget isn't going to work without the library. Roger that.

What do I do with the php code - just put the keywords after separated by commas in the custom fields box? Don't I have to close it with an code ending or something like </code>?

Working with php and CSS makes me feel like I'm trying to defuse a bomb. I have a coder who knows this stuff, but he's unavailable at the moment.

The term you used "break the page" scares the bejesus out of me, because I don't know how to fix a broken page.

I also can't upload pictures to the site because they don't appear. It's apparently an addressing problem with htaccess but I don't know how to fix that either. The fun just never stops.
 
Nooo, you dont need custom fields for this to work.
Look:

1) Install the Post Plugin Library plugin
2) Install the Similar Posts plugin
3) edit your single.php and include the code above (the 2nd one) right after the part where it says "<?php the_content('Read the rest blabla...');?>

Thats it, now go to your WP admin and look in the Settings panel. There is the menu for Similar Posts and you can tell it how many posts to display, how to decide which are related, etc.

You are not able to manually add links to the list this plugin generates for you.

It generates relevant links automatically.

If you want to add links manually, you must either do it manually or use custom fields. In this case, you don't need this plugin.

Hope this helps.
 
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