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Showing Posts When There's No Related Posts

Posted by Ken Cheung on Monday, September 18, 2006 in How-to, WordPress : : 16 comments

Like many of you, I use the Related Posts plugin. I've even hacked the plugin a couple of times to deal with unrelated pages showing up as related and to exclude certain categories from the results. Today, I'm going to show you how to hack the plugin to deal with "no related posts" results.

Hack More to Earn More

Posted by Ken Cheung on Thursday, September 7, 2006 in How-to, WordPress : : 9 comments

On one of my sites, I use the <!–more–> quicktag to designate the "cut-off" point for my posts. I could use the_excerpt tag, but I don't like how the excerpts look. Unless you explicitly define the excerpt for each post, the_excerpt tag will just show the first 120 words of the post and the HTML [...]

Excluding Categories from the Related Posts Plugin

Posted by Ken Cheung on Sunday, September 3, 2006 in How-to, WordPress : : 7 comments

Someone asked me how to omit posts from certain categories when using the Related Posts plugin. He even dangled a #9 from the Taco Bell menu via Paypal. It took me about 3 hours to figure it out, so that works out a few dollars per hour. But I can't complain. A few dollars is [...]

How to Fix Landing Sites Plugin

Posted by Ken Cheung on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 in How-to, Reviews, WordPress : : 7 comments

I finally got around to testing the Landing Sites plugin for WordPress.
Don't let the name fool you. The plugin does not create or direct visitors to a landing page. Instead, the plugin displays related links when visitors come to your site via a search engine. The idea is that when visitors are referred to your [...]

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