Where did they go from here?

Overview

Have you seen Amazon.com’s product pages? They all have a “Readers who have bought this, also bought. So, why not implement this on your WordPress blog?

This plugin will show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page.

How it works?

When a visitor views a blog post, the plugin checks to see if the referrer is another blog post on your site. If this is the case, then the referring post is updated with a reference to this post. And, the process continues as the visitor moves through the blog.

Thus, each post will display a list of links that other visitors went through from here. Hence, the name of the plugin!

You may wish to check out my other plugin Contextual Related Posts that finds related posts based on the content of your current post.

Features

Display Related Posts automatically in content / feed, no need to edit template files
Tracks visitors movement along your site
You can manually add related posts where you want them displayed
Exclude pages from the list of posts
Display post thumbnails in the list. The plugin has support for WordPress 2.9 thumbnails, use of postmeta and also the ability to grab the first image in the post

Requirements

WordPress 2.5 or above

Installing

Download Where did they go from here?.
Extract the contents of where-did-they-go-from-here.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called where-did-they-go-from-here.
Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
Goto Options > Where go to configure.

Options

You can set the title of the posts. Default is <h3>Where did they go from here:</h3>

Enable / disable display of posts in content on single pages and / or in feed. If you don’t enable the first option, then you will need to add <?php if(function_exists('echo_ald_wherego')) echo_ald_wherego(); ?>.

By default, both options are enabled.

ChangeLog

1.4.2 – Fixed: language files were not being detected correctly. Added Italian translation.
1.4.1 – Fixed possible clash with other plugins
1.4
- New: Implementation for tracking hits even on blogs with non-standard WordPress installs
- New: Reset button to reset all browsing data
- New: Option to exclude pages in post list
- New: Choose if you want to blank out display or display a custom message
- New: The plugin extracts the first image in the post and displays that if the post thumbnail and the post-image meta field is missing
- Fixed: Postmeta detection for thumbnails
- Some optimisation and code cleaning for better performance
1.3.1 – Fixed problem where plugin was not tracking visits properly
1.3
- Added localisation support
- Better support for blogs where wp-content folder has been moved
- Added support for post thumbnails
- Added option to display the post excerpt in the list
- All parts of the list are now wrapped in classes for easy CSS customisation
- Uninstall will clean up the meta tables
1.2.1 – Compatibility fix for WordPress 2.9
1.2 – Fix for blogs installed in a subdirectory
1.1
- Compatible with caching plugins. Tweaks that should improve tracking.
- Display the list of posts in Edit pages / posts of WP-Admin
- Blanked out display when no related posts are found instead of #N/A
1.0 – Release

To Do

Comment and tell me what you would like to see added to this plugin

Support the Development

Writing and testing plugins takes a good amount of time. If you like the plugin and find it useful and would like to donate something for my work please do click the Paypal Donate button below. The payment is secure. I haven’t filled in any amount. Feel free to donate what you please. Any amount is welcome. Thank you

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Questions or Bugs

Known Bugs

If you have any questions or would like to report any bugs then please use the support forum.

Languages

The following translations are available:

Italian by Gianni

If you would like to make available a translation for the plugin, please do drop me an email.

Downloads

Download Where did they go from here? v1.4.2
Number of downloads: 6,841
Rating: 5/5
Page on WP Extend

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59 Responses to “ Where did they go from here? ”

Comments:

Elmar says:

February 18, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Hi,

I could not figure out, which plugin was colliding with yours, so I hopefully get it to work with the new release announced from you above. Thanks for your engagement.
Umar says:

February 19, 2009 at 3:45 am

great job on this plugin Ajay
Richard says:

February 23, 2009 at 12:07 am

Hi Ajay. I have the latest versio on my site. So far I can see no output at all and nothing in the admin edit pages. How can I tell that the plugin is working? or not … Thanks.
- Ajay says:
  
  February 23, 2009 at 12:39 am
  
  Do you see the extra column in the Edit posts screen?
  
  Try browsing through your site from post to post for this and see if it gets updated.
- Ajay says:
  
  February 23, 2009 at 12:52 am
  
  I just checked your blog. The plugin appears to be working perfectly. The only explanation could be that something is blogging referrers.
  - Richard says:
    
    February 23, 2009 at 1:00 am
    
    Ok,I have just seen my first result. http://littlegreenblog.com/green-tips/ethical-consumerism/chocolate-week/ and yes, I have now found the extra column in the post edit page with some figures showing. Thanks for the hint. I just need to style the output now.
    - Ajay says:
      
      February 23, 2009 at 1:08 am
      
      Great! so, the plugin works now. Glad this was resolved. Do, blog and spread the word about it
Hikari says:

March 1, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Great job in v1.1, tnx!!
Bryan Eggers says:

March 4, 2009 at 12:51 pm

I love this plugin and have been recommending it to people. However, I realized today that it conflicts with Clean Archives Reloaded (a plugin I can’t do without). What happens is that the page fails to load when both plugins are working on that one page (not a sidebar).

Is there an easy way to stop your plugin from displaying just one one page? I couldn’t quite figure that out from the instructions.

Thanks!
- Ajay says:
  
  March 4, 2009 at 8:05 pm
  
  What is the exact problem that you face? Any particular error message?
- Richard says:
  
  March 4, 2009 at 8:51 pm
  
  One easy way is to make a page template and put the template tag for clean archives in it WITHOUT the template for where-go I did this on my site and the 2 plugins work happily. there will be other ways to stop the 2 plugins fighting…
Vito Botta says:

April 27, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Hi, thanks for this plugin, the idea is great!
I have installed it in my blog, which I am still working on, but it seems to ouput nothing on the page. I can see the extra column in the Admin area, but it only shows “N/A” regardless of my surfing from post to post. On the blog instead nothing is shown at all.
I am using WordPress 2.7.1 with Thesis theme.
Is there something I can try?
I really like this idea.
- Richard says:
  
  April 30, 2009 at 1:57 pm
  
  This is quite common when you first activate the plugin. It needs to gather data from referrers and if your site is not very busy this can take some time. I’ve installed it on some sites and it always works, but can take a few days. Just make sure you can see the template in the page source code.
Digigirl says:

April 29, 2009 at 11:04 pm

I just installed the plugin and now when I go to any post on my site, I get a little box that says “Ajax error.” You can just click OK and it goes away, but it’s annoying. Any ideas?
Angsuman Chakraborty says:

April 30, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Came to your blog after a long time and really love your new theme.

Does this plugin use Ajax to update the data? Otherwise it won’t work with any caching plugins / software in place. Let me know if you have plans for this.

Take care…
- Ajay says:
  
  May 1, 2009 at 12:58 am
  
  Thanks for stopping by The plugin uses Ajax to track the posts. So, it is perfectly compatible with any caching plugin. I have WP-Super Cache on this blog as well as Techtites
daphne says:

May 1, 2009 at 11:39 am

I installed and it’s not showing up … I’m using wp2.7.1
skykid says:

May 3, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Just installed ” Where did they go from here? ” at theskykid.com and am curious to find out its impact on the blog. Thank you for creating this plugin. Will get back when I could provide some more feedback

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