This Wordpress plugin lets you manually select related posts using a nifty AJAX powered search utility. A powerful tool for boosting pages per visit and SEO.
Download the Related Posts plugin
Current stable version: 2.2
Features
- Easily find entries 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
- Automatically display a list of related posts underneath your posts content. No need to add any PHP tags in your template files, but several functions available for advanced users.
- 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 (this option can be turned off easily through the settings panel)
- Widget support
- Flexible customization of the way the related posts are displayed
Screenshots
Installation
- Download the plugin and unzip,
- Put the related-posts folder in your wp-content/plugins folder,
- Activate the plugin through the Wordpress admin,
- Related posts will be placed underneath your posts/pages content automatically (after you have selected them manually in the write/edit post screen). You can change this and some other settings through the plugins options page under Settings > Related Posts.
- For advanced implementation, there are a couple of API functions available.
Customization
There are several options for customizing the way related posts are displayed on the plugins settings page.
For customizing with CSS: the list will be displayed as a <ul> within a container <div id="related-posts">
API functions
- Place this code in your template files (probably single.php) where you want the list of related posts to be displayed:
<?php MRP_show_related_posts(); ?> - To get the output HTML without displaying it use this function:
<?php $related_posts_html = MRP_get_related_posts_html( $post_id ) ?> - If you’re looking for further integration; this function will return the IDs and titles of related posts:
<?php $related_posts = MRP_get_related_posts( $post_id ); ?>
It will return an array like
$related_posts[related_post_id]->related_post_title
Change Log
2.2
- Added optimized SQL for related posts query provided by Peter Raganitsch
- Added option for turning reciprocal function off provided by Brock Boland
- Fixed some layout issues in Wordpress 2.7
- The search tool now searches in post title and post content.
2.1.1
- Solved an issue with shorthand PHP tags.
2.1
- Solved an issue where in WP 2.6 relationships with revisions were created when editing a post.
2.0
- Added the option to display related posts underneath your post content automatically
- Added the extended customization options for the way the list of related posts is displayed:
- Using a custom title
- Choosing the HTML header element (h1, h2, etc.) of the title for the related posts section
- Custom message to display when there are no related posts, with the option no displaying anything at all (no text, no code)
- Added widget support
- Added support for adding related pages
1.1
- Fixed a small issue with the paths to the .js and .css files which made the plugin break on blogs that reside in subdirectories.
To Do
- Language support
- Displaying post meta information with related posts (categories, tags, date, number of comments)
Credits
A big thank you goes out to:
- Peter Raganitsch for sharing his ancient SQL kung fu and thoroughly improving the speed and accuracy of this plugin.
- Brock Boland for sharing his amazing improvements on the reciprocal function.
Hope you’ll find this useful. Please let me know how it works for you and if you run into any problems.
Comments (169)
June 26, 2008 (10:00 pm)
Hi,
really usefull plugin and i will sure give it a try tomorrow.
have a nice evening,
Chris
June 26, 2008 (10:01 pm)
Cool thanks!
Let me know how it works out.
June 27, 2008 (12:02 am)
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
June 27, 2008 (1:38 am)
Very nice plugin. Can’t wait for widget support. It would be excellent to have this functionality in the sidebar. Thanks.
June 27, 2008 (11:19 am)
Hi there, just trying out your plugin and love the idea but can’t get the search to return any posts?
Am I doing something wrong?
June 27, 2008 (11:25 am)
Hi Dave,
Any change your blog sits in a subdirectory? Something like:
http://www.example.com/blog/
I noticed some problems occur with the javascript there.
June 27, 2008 (11:32 am)
Could be, it is sat in a subdirectory (http://dave/wordpress) but is set to run from the same directory it’s installed in.
June 27, 2008 (11:39 am)
Yeah, there’s a little bug that creates problems in that case. I’ve quick fixed it, can you try download the plugin again from here
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/microkids-related-posts.1.0.zip
and the see if it works?
June 27, 2008 (11:52 am)
Thanks MK — works a treat now.
One point, your example code above references “RP_show_related_posts();” while the actual functions start with “MRP”.
Thanks again for the quick responses — reciprocal linking is a great addition!
June 27, 2008 (11:55 am)
You are very right, thanks.
The plugin was named “Related Posts” before, but I had to change it because that name was taken in the Wordpress plugin directory
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June 27, 2008 at 4:45 pm
June 27, 2008 (4:46 pm)
great work, nice plugin!
June 27, 2008 (8:29 pm)
Thanks for the plugin but it doesn’t work on my site. I’ve read he comments and seen subdomain issue, I downloaded the new file but it still doesn’t work. Any suggestions?
June 27, 2008 (8:37 pm)
It’s alright, I added my subdomain folder name to mikrokids-related-posts.php file line 186 & 187, now it works perfect…
Thanks for that great plugin…
June 28, 2008 (3:26 am)
I’m having a problem with this, I have the plugin activated and I’ve added the line of php code to the single.php file where I want the list to appear and all I see after refreshing is “none” where the article links would appear. Did I miss something?
June 28, 2008 (1:09 pm)
Aydin, could you clarify a little? Did get_bloginfo(’siteurl’) not work correctly? What WP version are you running? Can you give me the url?
Hi Charlie, when there are no related posts added yet to your post, the plugin will display “none”.
June 28, 2008 (3:03 pm)
Doesn’t seem to work with pages. . . just posts. Would it be difficult to expand it to include pages?
June 28, 2008 (3:16 pm)
Hi Dale,
Support for pages is on it’s way. Actually, I’m thinking it would be great if you could relate anything to anything; pages, links and posts. What do you think?
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June 28, 2008 at 6:14 pm
June 28, 2008 (7:38 pm)
Great plug in!
I’m used similar plug in from Terong many years ago but it was not compatible with wp 2.3 up.
Great idea, thanks a lot!
June 28, 2008 (11:31 pm)
Hi,
Great plugin. When there are no related posts added yet to a post, the plugin will display “none”. In the next version, will it possible to display nothing at all, no text, no code ?
June 29, 2008 (1:04 am)
Hi Slash,
I was thinking about that, being able to edit what appears when there are no related posts. Pretty sure I will manage to include that with the next release.
June 30, 2008 (5:27 am)
Hi
I’m ari
I use related post in my wp
but I still confuse how to use it, can u explain more.
With a picture or screenshot maybe?
Thankz
June 30, 2008 (7:39 am)
hi. Thanks for plugin,I will try it ….If has some questions,I will report it …
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June 30, 2008 (7:58 am)
Nice work , was after something like this for a while
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June 30, 2008 at 8:21 am
June 30, 2008 (8:24 am)
Its doesn’t work . In the Post edit page , when u type in the search word it just stays blank.
Already tried the new link that was posted , also tried to edit the mikrokids-related-posts.php file line 186 & 187 and manually added the blog url with out the trailing slash. Still nothin.
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June 30, 2008 at 8:56 am
June 30, 2008 (11:05 am)
get_bloginfo(’siteurl’) didn’t work. I think it just calls “blog url”. My site sits on a subdomain as “../blog” and i added my subdomain folder name after php code and it works fine now. My edited code is:
”;echo ‘
Hope it helps.
By the way, My blog runs on WP 2.5.1
June 30, 2008 (11:07 am)
Ups, code didn’t show up… Adding it again:
script type="text/javascript" src="'.get_bloginfo('siteurl').'/blog/wp-content/plugins/microkids-related-posts/microkids-related-posts.js">
June 30, 2008 (11:20 am)
Aydin, thanks. Sorry the code isn’t showing up correctly in your comment. But don’t bother , I know what you mean
I’m going to look into it.
Saijo, I think this should fix your problem too, give me a sec.
June 30, 2008 (11:32 am)
Saijo, can you try downloading this version and see if it works?
June 30, 2008 (12:39 pm)
Will do it and report back ASAP
June 30, 2008 (12:44 pm)
Works Fine now , Gr8 work mate …
June 30, 2008 (1:25 pm)
Thanks Saijo, I’ve updated the plugin. Great feedback guys.
June 30, 2008 (1:56 pm)
Might be just what I was looking for. Hope it does sticky function well and is customizable to the degree I want. Thanks.
June 30, 2008 (1:59 pm)
Hi moserw, please let me know here if you have any feature requests.
June 30, 2008 (2:13 pm)
Its customisable and goes well with google ads on post , I have placed Link Ads + Recent Post together . Now lets wait and see how the traffic reacts to it .
The best features are :
1) U can select the requires post ( way better than automatic selection based on tags , content )
2 ) 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 ( this is a time saver and a gr8 feature )
June 30, 2008 (2:50 pm)
I have been looking for a related posts plugin and I am glad that I came across this site it looks like this is going to be what I am looking for . The problem though: I down loaded the plugin and installed it so that I can see it and search and select the related posts but it doesn’t come up. I saw the link that we have to put in the “theme files.” Where would those exactly be?
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June 30, 2008 at 2:58 pm
June 30, 2008 (3:02 pm)
Hello there Wedding Photographer,
This depends on what Wordpress theme you use. You have to place the code somewhere in one of the theme files that load when a post is viewed (i.e. single.php). This code retrieves and shows the related posts.
June 30, 2008 (3:21 pm)
hey thx for a nice plugin!
June 30, 2008 (3:57 pm)
I’ll put it in the single.php (i know that I have that one) and see what happens later today. I have the “Natural Essence” theme. http://www.peterdoylephotography.com/storyboard
thanks again.
June 30, 2008 (4:47 pm)
Alrighty Atlanta, put it somwhere below `the_content()` in single.php and you should be ready to go. You can customize the appearance using CSS.
I think it might be useful for a lot of people to add an “automatically add below posts content” option in the next release.
July 1, 2008 (2:55 am)
Very great plugin..
But is there any limitation for ‘numerous of related post’ each article that post since “if post A is added as related to post B, post B is automatically added as related to post A as well” ?
If I have twenty article that related to post A it that mean the A post will have 20 link related post. Too much.
Thanks before for nice plugin..
July 1, 2008 (4:20 am)
The beauty of this plugin is that u can add the related post manually , so out of that 20 related post u might have on your blog , if u wish only 2 to show up u can do that by only added those 2
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July 2, 2008 (6:21 pm)
okay,,,, I put the code “somwhere below `the_content()` in single.php ” and I now see the related posts only when I am writing the post and not when I view it. Is there anything else that I need to check. I’m sorry that I can’t get this settled.
July 3, 2008 (11:45 am)
Hi Atlanta,
Did you use the first or the second code mentioned above? You should use the first.
July 3, 2008 (11:57 am)
It’s not work with russian titles (AJAX search). Can you fix this problem?
July 3, 2008 (4:57 pm)
Here is the code:
Posted in
what do you think
July 3, 2008 (4:58 pm)
ok so you don’t see it ….. i put it under the content and I used the first code you have on there
July 3, 2008 (7:23 pm)
Hi Atlanta,
I checked out which theme you are using, looks like you’re using a customized version of Natural Essence, correct? If so, the code should be placed underneath somewhere around line 21.
Replace
< ?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>With
< ?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>
< ?php if( function_exists("MRP_show_related_posts") ) MRP_show_related_posts(); ?>
Let me know if that works.
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July 8, 2008 (11:41 pm)
Great plugin! I was about to write something by myself using themes/PHP/custom fields, you saved my life!
July 9, 2008 (12:30 am)
I am sorry to say that I cannot get it to work. The code just shows up as text under post. I’m sure the problem is with me. I carefully went over your instructions to Atlanta but that didn’t help. I stayed glued to this page in hopes that you add the option you spoke of up a few comments. Maybe that will do it for the newbie like me. Thanks.
July 9, 2008 (12:32 am)
is it the code correctly enclosed among
July 9, 2008 (12:33 am)
sorry… that was supposed to be:
is the code correctly eclosed among <? and ?>> ?
July 9, 2008 (12:37 am)
Maddler - You’re welcome
Cy - Try downloading this version of the plugin - it’s not officially released yet, but it has a feature of automatically adding the related posts to your content.
Make sure you completely uninstall and remove your current install of the plugin before installing this one. And please let me know if this solves your problem.
July 9, 2008 (4:28 am)
Thank you Microkid for responding. I have PlugInstaller. After deactivating the Microskids Related Posts I have an option to uninstall. When I do click uninstall a page pops up saying “cannot load”. Can I just use my FireFTP and take the plugin out or is that not the way to proceed? Thanks for your patience.
July 9, 2008 (4:16 pm)
Cy,
Yes, just delete the entire folder from the plugins folder. Then upload the new version.
July 9, 2008 (6:34 pm)
Microkid,
It worked perfectly!. Again, thank you for your time helping me out. I have researched all “related posts” type plugins and this is the very best for newbies like me. I’m sure advanced users will like it too. The reciprocal feature is really nice. By the way I using WP 2.5, self- hosted.
July 9, 2008 (7:09 pm)
Thanks cy, glad to help
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July 10, 2008 (7:41 pm)
I installed it a couple of days ago and it worked well showing 10 related posts. Now it says “None” to every post. What could be wrong? BTW I changed my theme, but have done everything the same way in inserting the code as in the previous theme. Any help would be much appreciated.
July 11, 2008 (1:02 am)
moserw,
Are you running v2.0? If not, please check if installing the new version will solve your problem (see above for the download link)
It probably has something to do with your new theme. Version 2.0 automatically adds the related posts to your content so there shouldn’t be any dependancies with themes.
July 11, 2008 (7:54 am)
May I add that I was validating my blog with W3C and found several plugins that were creating errors. Your plugin was NOT among them and I thank you for that.
July 11, 2008 (2:59 pm)
Great plugin. I especially appreciate the ‘API Functions’.
July 11, 2008 (3:06 pm)
Thanks Cy, Shirley,
I’ve tried to create a plugin that has all the features for both basic and advanced users, so I’m happy it’s appreciated
If there’s anything else you would like to see as a feature, please let me know and I will look into it.
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July 12, 2008 (4:13 pm)
Great plugin…except that it doesn’t seem to support Chinese at all. Thus I can only apply it to the posts with English titles.
May I ask for a function that I can add related posts by typing IDs or sth else, if non-English search is difficult?
July 12, 2008 (6:13 pm)
Hi Susan,
I’ll put support for Chinese characters on my list. I know there are some problems with cyrillic alphabet as well. I’ll look into it for the next version.
July 18, 2008 (6:23 pm)
great plugin. any chance at adding the ability to completely customize the related post output? it would be great to be able to include an article thumbnail, title, and excerpt.
July 18, 2008 (8:46 pm)
Hi Justin,
If you want you can use this function to grab all the post ID’s:
< ?php $related_posts = MRP_get_related_posts( $post_id ); ?>
Using the get_post() function you could get any data you need from the related posts.
July 19, 2008 (7:54 pm)
Hello. Great plugin, I really like it and like the idea of being able to selectively include only the related posts I want. I installed it for the first time today, after upgrading my site to WordPress 2.6. I did notice something a little odd… When I display a related post, links back to the original post appears multiple times. For example, if you click one of the related posts listed on this post…
http://www.afewgoodpens.com/blog/2008/07/18/site-updates-4/
… you’ll see duplicated links back to the original. I was just reading that WordPress introduced post revision tracking in 2.6, and if you pass the mouse over the duplicate links, you’ll see they reference the revisions. I’m looking into turning the revision level off, but also wanted to let you know about the problem (if you don’t already).
Thanks and thanks for the good work…. I’m planning to go back through a lot of my posts and set up related post links, and this plugin is a great help.
Dale
July 19, 2008 (11:28 pm)
Dale - Thanks, I hadn’t noticed this yet.. I’ll look into it right away. Definitely something to do with the revisions.
Good to hear you find it useful
July 20, 2008 (1:46 am)
I solved the issue in version 2.1, you can download it here.
July 20, 2008 (3:20 am)
Oh, man, you’re great … just installed version 2.1, cleaned up the duplicates, and created a new related posts reference … it worked beautifully. Thanks tons for taking care of this so quickly!
Dale
July 21, 2008 (12:45 am)
Hello again. A question about your plug-in…. In the features list above, you say:
“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.”
I was wondering how it’s designed to work when I add more than one relationship. That is, if I add two related posts (Post #2 and Post #3) to Post #1, should Post #2 automatically show Post #1 and Post #3, and Post #3 show Post #1 and Post #2?
I hope that makes sense….
Thanks!!
Dale
July 21, 2008 (9:10 am)
Hi Dale,
I understand what you mean, but no it doesn’t work that way. Post 1 and 2 might be related on one subject, and post 1 and 3 on another. So this doesn’t necessarily mean that 2 and 3 are related.
July 22, 2008 (3:10 am)
Hi, MK… Thanks for the response. What you are saying makes sense, and I thought it might work that way … just wanted to be sure before I linked up a bunch more posts.
Thanks again for your attention and quick followup; I really do appreciate it.
Bye for now,
Dale
July 22, 2008 (10:54 pm)
I got a little furstrated so i just deleted it now I calmed down and put it back up again. I figured out what was happening. It seems that the space between in the “< ?php” that you gave was causing the problems. I now have it up but the related posts are only showing when you click on the indivdual blog and they are showing up twice. Is there something that I did? Thanks for your time. here’s the link: http://peterdoylephotography.com/storyboard/the-business-of-relationships/
July 23, 2008 (1:11 am)
Atlanta,
Glad you got it working. Where did the space show up? Sorry about that causing you so much trouble.
With the release of version 2.0 I added the functionality of the related posts being added to your posts content automatically. So no need to insert the code - well, except when you want to change the location of the list. You are now looking at the same list twice because its added automatically plus you’ve added the code.
So, either turn of the “automatic” function through the settings or get rid of the code.
Right now the plugin doesn’t add the list automatically to your post excerpts on the home and archive pages. Would be a good feature for a future release maybe. If you want it anyway, just add the before mentioned code to the index.php, archive.php, and, if it exists, category.php files of your theme. Same way, right underneath the_content() or the_excerpt(), either one should be in your theme files.
July 23, 2008 (6:25 am)
i’ve been looking for this since it appeared on the dashboard widget. but really took time as i think the search in the wordpress plugin page is bit crooked.
im novice but i think this is what ppl need .. thanks a lot.
July 23, 2008 (2:41 pm)
Dude….thanks a bunch…finally got everything situated. took out it showing twice and only had to put the code in the index.php so that it shows up on the front page. thanks again!!!!
July 23, 2008 (3:12 pm)
My blog is in a subdomain: blog.peacockandpaisley.com. I tried Microkid Related Posts 1.0 and tried adding http://blog.peacockandpaisley.com to lines 186 and 187, as mentioned above, but no related posts are showing up. I’m using the Firebug theme, but when I switched between themes, the plugin still didn’t seem to be working. Looking forward to using your plugin! Thanks for the help.
July 23, 2008 (3:20 pm)
Hi Heather,
The 186/187 fix was for an older version, it’s not necessary for the current version.
It seems the related posts list is appearing underneath your post content correctly. Does the related post tool show up on your write post page?
July 26, 2008 (4:01 am)
When I try to activate the plugin, I get a “fatal” error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in/Library [etc.] / microkids-related-posts/microkids-related-posts.php on line 482
I am very new to WordPress, so I’ve probably done something stupid, but I have managed to install and activate other plugins. Any help much appreciated.
July 26, 2008 (10:26 am)
Hi Andrew,
I might have a solution - can you download and install this version and tell me if it works?
July 26, 2008 (11:55 am)
No, I get the same error, but now at line 485.
July 26, 2008 (12:16 pm)
Ok … this one should do the trick. Please download it and let me know.
July 26, 2008 (1:50 pm)
Yes! That did it. Thanks. Now I just need to figure out how to make it work. When I’m writing a post, I should be able to type in a tag in the “Search posts” box, under “Related Posts”, and that will show a list of posts with that tag. Is that right? I’m not seeing any related posts right now. I’m going to play with it some more.
July 26, 2008 (2:04 pm)
The search tool will match whatever you fill in on the titles of your posts.
I think in a future version I’ll add matching on post content and/or tags as well.
July 26, 2008 (2:07 pm)
Ok, I got it working by replacing this bit in lines 76 and 77:
“‘.get_option(’siteurl’).’/
with the location of my blog. Is the subdomain issue? My blog is located in a folder called “blog” that sits in my root folder.
Anyway, thanks for the plugin and for the help.
July 26, 2008 (2:08 pm)
hmm .. that shouldn’t be happening. What version of the plugin are you using?
July 26, 2008 (2:12 pm)
Version: 2.1.1rc2
Thanks for the explanation about how it matches.
July 31, 2008 (3:51 am)
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July 31, 2008 (7:10 am)
The AJAXY crap doesn’t work in Firefox 3. Test it and you’ll see how the search for posts doesn’t show any posts (but it does in Safari).
July 31, 2008 (8:24 am)
JesusCrunk:
Check the plugins settings in the WP admin.
Vorenus:
It should work in FF3 (I use it daily actually). Maybe something else is the problem?
July 31, 2008 (10:30 am)
It just started working. I can’t explain it. Perhaps it wasn’t loading the .js file before.
Anyway, I apologize for my hostile tone earlier.
July 31, 2008 (10:34 am)
No problem. I’m not a very big fan of Ajax as a solution to everything either. It just seemed like the best solution here.
August 2, 2008 (12:23 pm)
Great Plugin! But how can I change the font-size of the label “Related Posts”?
August 2, 2008 (1:30 pm)
Ok, I found it :). But I have a second question: Would it be possible not only to search the titles of former posts? It would be more handy, if also the tags are searchable and/or the body of the post. Maybe it would be a good idea, to prepopulate the field “Related” with some data, eventually with the posts, which have one of the tags.
August 2, 2008 (2:59 pm)
Hi Perband,
An option for suggestions definitely seems like a useful feature. Good idea — I’ll look into in.
August 2, 2008 (4:02 pm)
Thanks for the great addon Microkid. I was just wondering what new features were added in version 2.1.1?
August 2, 2008 (4:08 pm)
Sorry, no new features. I only fixed an issue that would make the plugin crash when shorthand php tags are not allowed. If you weren’t having problems, then there’s no reason to update really.
August 2, 2008 (4:10 pm)
Thanks for the quick reply, and it’s nice to see that you’re still active with the project and the people that use it.
August 2, 2008 (4:12 pm)
Cool, I’m just happy I can give something back to a great community.
August 2, 2008 (7:34 pm)
Great work! This plugin is very practical but on each entry should be a number of comments and the search should be more configurable. Anyway really true respect for your work
August 8, 2008 (4:49 am)
love it!
mega dittos for being able to link to pages as well. thanks for the plugin, gj!
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August 15, 2008 (11:36 am)
I love the control this plugin provides. Very cool.
However, I was wondering why you didn’t use the same code names Related Posts uses? It seems to be the defacto standard and this way your plugin is a drop in replacement in themes which already support that version. An example of this approach is Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP).
Regardless, thanks for the great work.
August 24, 2008 (12:36 pm)
Looks like a useful plugin. It would be ideal if you could add any link from anywhere, rather than just search matches. Doesn’t seem to be possible
Thanks
August 26, 2008 (4:00 am)
A fantastic plugin - thank you very much!
I just noticed that it is cross-liking my unpublished draft posts. Yikes! That means that people can see my drafts while they are still under construction. Not good–my collected thoughts are rough enough as it is…
August 28, 2008 (9:40 pm)
Hi MicroKid,
Thanks for sharing this plugin.
I tried it, but what I got is this:
“Related Posts
None”
I have put the entire folder (9 files) in this folder:
…/wp-content/plugins/Related Posts/
I use self-hosted WP version 2.5. What am I doing wrong?
August 30, 2008 (12:10 pm)
Hi Jenny,
The plugin does not create relations automatically. Did you build any relations through the manage/write post page?
August 30, 2008 (10:28 pm)
All my posts are tagged, therefore several related posts should appear, but says “none”. Please help.
August 31, 2008 (12:26 am)
Again, the plugin does not create relations automatically. The whole idea is that you can create relations manually, through the edit/write page. Check out the screenshots and instructions above for help.
September 1, 2008 (11:14 am)
Hello Microkid,
After searching for 3 days I have finally found your amazing plugin. Thank you for the excellent work!
I was wondering whether there is a way to manually sort the links that come up.
Right now it seems they are sorted alphabetically by default, and if there are numbers (post 1, post 2), the highest number will be on top, no matter in which order I choose them.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Regards,
schikowski
September 1, 2008 (1:38 pm)
Hey,
I just found that using the plugin breaks my admin panel (bottom) when editing a Page.
Have you experienced this as well?
WP 2.6
Thanks!!
schikowski
September 1, 2008 (3:20 pm)
Circlereader - Can it be that this is happening with posts that were published before? Because you shouldn’t be able to select drafts.
Schikowski - That would be a cool feature, manually adjusting the order of the related posts. I’ll put it on my list
I’ve never noticed any problems with the admin panel footer. Perhaps a compatibility issue with another plugin? Can you try disabling a couple and see what happens?
Thanks for your feedback guys.
September 2, 2008 (3:39 am)
It happens when I am drafting a new post and relate it to another, previously published post. When I hit save, the related posts appear on the previous post before I publish the new post. Clicking on the related posts link from the older post to my draft displays the unpublished, in progress post.
(I’d set up an example for you, but I’m having some other technical difficulties with my blog right now.
)
+1 on searching tags and content as well as titles. Thanks for your help!
September 2, 2008 (6:21 am)
This plug-in is precisely what I’m looking for. However, I do most of my composing using Windows Live Writer and would have to edit my posts after publishing in order to use your plug-in effectively.
Any chance that you will also create a plug-in for WLW?!
September 2, 2008 (6:41 am)
Okay, I’ve just completed some editing and my goodness, it looks simply fabulous. Thanks so much for the hard work you put into this plug-in and sharing it with us! My next post about blog resources is linking to this page!
Thanks again, Microkid!
September 2, 2008 (8:14 am)
CircleReader - Ok got it, that’s something that needs to be fixed a.s.a.p.
Tata - thanks for the love
As for Windows Live Writer - sorry, not a chance 
September 2, 2008 (9:42 pm)
hi,
I’m using it on two sites, it works perfect on the first one, but on the other one, the related post ajax function doesn’t show posts when I’m trying to search. This is when making a post or editing the post.
latest wordpress version is used, as well as latest version of the plugin. None of them is in a subdirectory and is hosted by one company.
Any ideas?
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September 10, 2008 at 3:57 pm
September 20, 2008 (11:25 am)
Hi
Great plugin and thanks a lot for your hard work !
Just one question : is it possible to show on a page (single) a sub selection of related posts: my posts have related posts which are related :
- links
- books
- stories
I would like to automatically retrieve these related posts and show them in 3 differents spots when post appears on single page.
How to achieve this ? is it possible with your plugin ? Could I use your plugin and then do a seach ?
Jean from France
September 21, 2008 (10:37 pm)
Salut Jean,
Are these subjects you are making a sub selection on categories on your blog? Perhaps you could use the MRP_get_related_posts function (see the API functions above) to get all the ID’s. Then you would have to get the category of each post, some way, and order them by it.
I think it’ll be useful for a lot of people to have the MRP_get_related_posts() function return more data than just the ID and title. I’m putting it on the feature request list for version 3.0
September 22, 2008 (7:42 am)
Hi
Thanks for answer
Using the MRP_get_related_posts function is probably the answer I will give it a try and keep you posted on my progresses. This function could be returning more data, it is a good idea for future version 3.
Thanks for help
Jean from France
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September 23, 2008 at 2:21 am
October 11, 2008 (7:27 am)
Got a feature request for the future version. Is it possible to shown only say X related post in this section. If there are more than X related post then any X random post ( from the selected related post ) is shown
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October 14, 2008 at 2:26 am
October 15, 2008 (8:15 pm)
Hi Saijo George,
Why would you want this? Are you worried you will have to many links on your page?
October 16, 2008 (2:56 am)
Hi Microkid
thanks exactly right. Its got a lot to do with the way I have integrated the related post in to my site eg : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/09/15/non-animated-wallpaper-pack-for-pocket-pc-pack-3.html
If there are say related post say around 10-20 the layout will be messedup. but if only say 6-7 are shown @ any given time it will look well presented.
October 20, 2008 (11:42 am)
thanks for this very great plugin!
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October 22, 2008 at 2:28 pm
October 26, 2008 (10:41 am)
Great plugin! Will be using it in my relaunch
November 2, 2008 (6:58 am)
Thank you for your website
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace or youtube and even more
my backgrounds:http://tinyurl.com/6rbxmr
take care and thank you again!
November 9, 2008 (6:53 pm)
I can’t get one post to show up. It always says none. how does it find the related posts. thanks.
November 16, 2008 (9:27 pm)
@Natural,
You have to manually select the related posts, it doesn’t work automatically. Please check the instructions in the post above.
November 19, 2008 (4:50 am)
RE: If you want you can use this function to grab all the post ID’s:
Using the get_post() function you could get any data you need from the related posts.
More example code please for us who are not so php Savvy
Would love to see the code with permalink, thumbnail etc..
Here’s my old code using WP thumbnail:
<img src=”ID, “thumb_archives”, true); ?>” alt=”ID, “thumb_archives”, true); ?> thumb_archives” />
<a href=”" rel=”bookmark”>Custom Field LabelID, “Custom Field1″, true); ?>
November 19, 2008 (4:51 am)
Unable to paste complete code, this site strips it all from my post
November 20, 2008 (12:00 am)
At the beginning I’m gonna use it with related posts plugin that uses the tags than after a while I’m gonna remove that plugin and only use this one.
I hope not to mess up things.
Thanks for the plugin !
November 25, 2008 (1:42 am)
Hi Microkid,
Thanks for the plugin and all the help! I’ve installed the newest version on my wordpress and tried the suggestions you made in the comments, but still can’t seem to figure it out. When I search for a related post, I see this:
Warning: require(../../../wp-config.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/snacko5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/microkids-related-posts/mrp-search.php on line 8
any ideas? thank you!
December 9, 2008 (10:28 pm)
Great plugin. However, it’d be great if you had a “Related Links” feature as well. Would work the same, only difference would be links are custom added using a nearly identical interface.
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