After receiving overwhelming responses to the first release of the Related Posts plugin for Wordpress, I have tried to implement a range of new features as requested by my loyal commenters.
The 2.0 release wil bring these new features:
Option to display related posts underneath your post content automatically
Extended customization of the way the list of related posts are displayed:
Using a custom title for the related posts section
Choosing the HTML header element (h1, h2, etc.) of the title for the related posts section, for all you DOM purists and SEO cats out there
Custom message to display when there are no related posts, with the option no displaying anything at all (no text, no code)
Widget support
Some minor bugs, likethe post itself appearing as a search result
Note that this version is a release candidate, which means that it’s not yet fully tested. That’s why I need you to check it out.
Please download the plugin, take it for a spin and let me know if you run into anything unexpected. If everything goes well, I will officially release version 2.0 to the world somewhere next week.
Easily find posts that might be related to the one you are writing with an integrated AJAX powered search utility,
Easily add and remove relations with a single click. No page reloads, no pop-ups,
The relationship created works reciprocal, which means that if post A is added as related to post B, post B is automatically added as related to post A as well,
Seamless integration with the Wordpress 2.5 interface (backward compatibility with older versions coming soon)
Put the related-posts folder in your wp-content/plugins folder,
Activate the plugin through the Wordpress admin,
Add this PHP code to your theme files to show a <ul> list of related posts:<?php if( function_exists("MRP_show_related_posts") ) MRP_show_related_posts(); ?>
Or, if you’re looking for further integration, use this to grab the IDs of related posts:MRP_get_related_posts( $post_id );
To Do
Backward compatibility with Wordpress versions < 2.5
Widget support. I promise… soon!
Customization of HTML output
Language support
Relationships between pages, and between posts and pages
Hope you’ll find this useful. Please let me know how it works for you and if you run into any problems.
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After Alexanders feedback, I fixed a bug in the WP plugin “Permalinks Moved Permanently”.
Before, the plugin would not work if your old permalink structure did not contain anything between the domain and the post slug. So this would not work:
http://www.example.com/post-name/
The latest release (version 1.2) does.
If you have been experiencing this problem too, download the new version here.
If this is true, our miserable lives as developers, might soon become just a little bit less miserable.
The infamous IEblog reports that its developer team has found a way to bypass the Microsoft marketing departement and make the new version of Internet Explorer - IE 8, pronounced: IE HATE - more standard compliant. They have kindly requested general manager Dean Hachamovitch to leave his million dollar villa and for once actually do some work and put up an image of Internet Explorer 8 passing the Acid2 test. Lets just hope that Hachamovitch did not photoshop the image on his MacBook Pro.
Developers around the world, aware of the fact that this solves none of their problems, but hoping for a better day, are now waiting for the IE team to come up with an innovative solution to clear the dominance of IE version 6 in user world.
After the launch of Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, the browsers developer team at Microsoft have once again excelled in productivity. After 14 months of hard labor they have astonished the world by coming up with a revolutionairy new name for the next release of the most hated piece of software in the world . Yes, the next horrible piece of crap that will roll out of their stinky ovens will carry the magnificent name of… Internet Explorer 8.
Already web developers around the world are referring to the upcoming terror as Internet Explorer HATE. Check out the comments on the obviously-designed-by-a-programmer IE blog. Seems like the Redmond crew is not making a lot of friends in developer land.
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If this is true, our miserable lives as developers, might soon become just a little bit less miserable.
After the launch of Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, the browsers developer team at Microsoft have once again excelled in productivity. After 14 months of hard labor they have astonished the world by coming up with a revolutionairy new name for the next release of the most hated piece of software in the world . Yes, the next horrible piece of crap that will roll out of their stinky ovens will carry the magnificent name of… Internet Explorer 8.