Create your own Custom Related Posts

[rogerp]

I am working on some focussed internal link building and after trying a few Related Posts plugins, have been creating my own block of 4-5 related posts at the bottom of each post.

This is becoming very time consuming, but what I want to achieve is for certain categories to have at the bottom of each post a block of 4-5 links that I can curate in one place and then drop in.

I have looked at After Entry Widget and then trying to only show it in certain places but functionality is limited.

So have been looking at Custom Post Types and not sure if this is the right direction to go in?

My goal is for each category to be able to have a list of 5 links that i can create in one place and then place at the bottom of each page.

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Roger
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[AnitaC]

That's a lot of work. Your last statement:

My goal is for each category to be able to have a list of 5 links that i can create in one place and then place at the bottom of each page.

Bottom of each page.... meaning at the end of the blog posts????

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[rogerp]

Yes, I have looked at a few plugins, but none really let me do what I want to do.

So currently when I have finished a post I put 5 links to related posts.

But I want to have this automated, but after a lot of research I think it's best to keep doing it manually as it gives me full control

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Roger
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[AnitaC]

Well if you are manually creating the 5 links for each individual post, you'll have to keep doing that manually. There's no way to automate that on every single post you create. Widgets were not created to be stuffed full of widgets that you manipulate to display on posts, especially if you have 50 posts that will require 50 different sets of 5 links.

That's because you personally are going to select the 5 links for each one.

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[AnitaC]

I was going to refer you to Nick's tutorial on adding Related Posts to you site, but Sridhar has a free tutorial here that's combined Nick's, Andrea, Chinmoy and Lee Anthony's code into one tutorial. Check that out as it might get you someone closer to what you may want but you wouldn't be able to select the 5 posts.

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[rogerp]

Thanks, I have just worked out exactly what I need and that code is included here - hopefully.

I want related posts within a category, as with other related posts plugins, I was getting related posts that were not related!

Looks like Lee has a category query

Thanks Anita

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Roger
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