It All Relates Together – A Related Post Widget
Sometimes you find an interesting post in a blog and you want to see if there are similar entries, so what do you do? Maybe you’ll shift through the categories or type in a search for it, but this can be a time-consuming task. Why not simplify matters by checking if it has the related post widget on the sidebar? This particular widget written by Lefebvre de Saboya is powered by the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. This particular widget is derived from the UTW Popular Tags widget created by James Carppe.
Installation instructions:
- Download and extract the zip file from the downloads page.
Save the file to the widget directory. Go to the Admin Plugins page and activate it.- Go to the Presentations Tab and place the newly-available widget where you want it to be. Simple, isn’t it?
You have the option to change the header that will show up above the list and the number of posts you want it to return. If there are more related posts there is no way to display them. Confident of your css skills? Edit the style.css file and add a utwrelposts class to format the list, and make it match your theme. The important thing to remember is that it relies on your tags, so make sure you tag your posts carefully! Don’t forget what tag foes with what topic. A similar widget that also used the UTW plugin comes from Diwaker Gupta, who brought us the sidepages widget. Isn’t it great to see programmers approach the same problem in different ways?
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