This WordPress plugin allows you to manually enter links that are related to a post. They can be on any site and you can enter just the URL or an entire link (specifying the title attribute, onclicks, etc). Additionally, since the links are stored at post meta data instead of being re-generated for each page view, the load on the server and the wait time for your users is MUCH lower!
You can use the helper functions to display the related links in your theme or you can simply tell the plugin to automatically add them to posts or even just single posts. The list of links is output as a semantic unordered list (ul) with an optional title. Everything is well classed to make CSS styling easy.
This plugin is not an automatic solution like many related posts plugins, but works well for people who want total control of the related links (or have multiple sites they want to link between).
- Verify that you have PHP5, which is required for this plugin.
- Upload the whole
manual-related-linksdirectory to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Manually integrate into your theme or go to the plugin settings page and set it to automatically add them to posts
Why aren't the related posts showing?
You need to manually integrate into your theme using the helper functions (wp_get_related_links and wp_related_links) or go to the plugin settings page and set it to automatically add them to posts
Can I craft my own HTML for the links?
Yes, you can enter just the URL or an entire link (specifying the title attribute, onclicks, etc).
