Other Posts is a simple plugin to show related posts under the post visitors are reading and let you to freely design the list.
I know, there are other plugins like mine, so what are the added values of Other Posts?
Other Posts lets you to design the look of related posts list. Like creating a simple theme, you have some tags (link, title, image, …) and can write the HTML to compose the related posts list. A special tag called “image” extract the first image in the post.
I wrote it for two reasons:
- have a related post list with custom layout
- use it with Post Layout to add related posts without modify the theme
- it’s used by Comment Notifier Extras and Postcards Extras
All articles on this blog about Other Posts can be found under the tag “other posts“.
Download
It’s now available on WordPress plugin directory, here.
Forum
Discussion about Other Posts can be found or started on this forum.
Usage of Other Posts
To add the related post list, usually you have to open the single.php of your current theme and add the PHP code:
<?php oposts_show(); ?>
or can use Post Layout and add such line of code in the single post bottom code injection configuration. Below a screenshot (click to enlarge) of a blog I manage (www.maguardaunpo.it) with the Other Posts call configured with Post Layout Pro.
Other Posts comes with a predefined layout which is a table suitable for most blog design but you can modify it as you like.
The layout is composed by an header block, a footer block and a body block. The body block will be repeated for the number of related posts found (limited by max posts values).
Tags need to be used within the body block and will be replaced with related post data (such as title, permalink, excerpt, image and so on). Available tags are documented below the body block textarea in the configuration panel (click to enlarge).
And now the result of related posts in a real blog.
by Stefano Lissa
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Hello,
Thanks for your reply. I first upload it in a wordpress.com account and use them.
Regards
Hello, I use your valuable plugin for my site. I am facing a problem. Hope you can help. The related entries are not pulling images from the respective posts. How to get the images? Please advise
Nice. I like it.
Hi,
Thanks a lot for this plugin, suits my site very well.
Just one question ? How to exclude posts from being displayed in the list ?
I had the same problem that Trisha had.
Trisha : I uploaded the same image in ‘Image à la Une’ (sorry my wp is in french), at the bottom of the sidebar in the Admin Post Edition page
Hi Stefano
I like your plugin better than several similar ones, but I’m having one small issue that I’m hoping you can help with.
My theme does not use the typical upload-and-insert method of adding images, so they don’t exist as ‘attachments’ – rather they are added as a value in a custom field and then place in the appropriate spot with this PHP code:
$values = get_post_custom_values(“Image”); echo $values[0];
Thus they are not showing up where they should be with your plugin.
I’ve tried a couple of modifications to your plugin.php file, but am not having success. Can you tell me how to modify your php file to use my custom field instead of looking for an attachment?
Many thanks!