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

1.5.2 – Fixed: Undefined constant PHP warnings
1.5.1 – Added: Russian language
1.5
- Fixed: Compability problem with WordPress blog in the subdirectory
- New: Option to excludes posts from certain categories to be displayed
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

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