Solo Technology

[Feb 16, 2007 - Updates!]

This WordPress plugin adds a list of Related Posts to your full text feed. The current incarnation assumes you have installed and activated the popular Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin.

The genesis of this was an article I’d seen at TechBuzz detailing how they had added Related Feeds to their post. It involved some “core” file modifications and a different plugin for the related posts (the post has disappeared at some point in the last couple days). That article motivated me to write this one to see if I could do the same thing with UTW and without modifying any core files.

Otto42 at the WordPress support forums was very helpful in getting this off the ground.

At the bottom of each article in your feed will be a list of 6 posts that are similar to the current article based on UTW’s ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost() function. If UTW is deactivated, the plugin does nothing — which means it won’t blow-up your feed.

Here’s a screenshot of what it adds to my test blog’s feed (via Netvibes for this example):

Download:

License:

• Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike. Use it, build from it — just credit me as the originator with a link back to here.

Instructions:

• Download it from the link above
• Unzip it
• FTP/scp/carrier pigeon it to your server, put it in the plugins directory
• Login to WordPress, activate it.

Future:

• Support other Related Posts techniques/plugins
• An options screen to control number of posts and possibly list style

History

• 11.Feb.2007 - First Release: .01
• 16.Feb.2007 - Second Release .02 — adds support for the w-a-s-a-b-i related posts plugin

24 Responses to “First Release: Add Related Posts to Your Feed”

1. Ajay on February 13th, 2007 10:07 am
   

   It would be great if you could implement Related Posts plugins functionality in the feed.

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3. Chris on February 13th, 2007 10:16 am
   

   Hi Ajay - I hope to tackle that one soon.

4. Mark on February 13th, 2007 10:18 am
   

   Your download link is broken.

5. Chris on February 13th, 2007 10:35 am
   

   Ack! Thanks Mark, think is fixed. Also is linked here: http://www.solo-technology.com/apps.html

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11. Thilak on February 16th, 2007 8:07 am
    

    Actually, The post hasn’t dissappeared. It was just a DNS propogation issue.

    Here’s the link http://tech-buzz.net/2006/07/09/how-to-show-related-post-in-feeds-wordpress-only/

12. Chris on February 16th, 2007 8:10 am
    

    Hmm, I still get what looks like a 404 page saying “Opps”.

    If I look at posts for that date: http://tech-buzz.net/2006/07/09/ I see two others, so I think I’m hitting the right site?

13. gadgets expose on February 16th, 2007 1:15 pm
    

    all fine work. good job. well done.

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21. Dan on August 18th, 2007 7:51 am
    

    Thanks for the plug-in and your work.

    Seems to work fine. However, the last time I checked, it appeared that links to unpublished/draft posts were showing up.
    Dan

22. Chris on August 18th, 2007 8:25 am
    

    Hi Dan, thanks for the thanks.

    My plugin just “wraps” around UTW or the “related posts” plugin.

    If you’re using the related posts one, make sure it is current.

23. Sean O on November 20th, 2007 9:18 am
    

    UTW doesn’t appear to work with 2.3 and WASABI seems to be missing in action. Any suggestions on how to implement this in 2.3?

24. Chris on November 20th, 2007 9:46 am
    

    Hey Sean O - yeah, this isn’t of much use with 2.3 and up. I thought I had updated this page, but I guess I missed it…

    I’ve switched over to using the Simple Tags plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/) It works with the new built-in tagging and pretty much gets you back to the UTW point -and- includes related posts and such.

    Hope that helps.

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