WordPress Plugins — Related Posts, WP-Touched and Others

Installed “Related Posts” plugin. But the process wasn’t as easy as advertised.

I had to:

1. Edited

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/wp-content/themes/_theme_of_choice_/single.php

2. Manually added

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< ? php related_posts(); ? >

parameters in

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single.php

I also added the cute little Link out image image after all the links in the content. It looks okay now. But I have a feeling they’ll get old soon.

To get the effect, I did the following:

1. Edited

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/wp-content/themes/_theme_of_choice_/style.css

2. Added

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.entry a[href*="http"], .commentlist a[href*="http"] {
     padding-right: 7px;
     background: url('images/kubricklink-out.gif') right top no-repeat;
     }

But I noticed the above code did not apply the image to the links in the

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single.php

pages. So I added

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.entrytext a[target="_blank"]

to the code, making it look like this:

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.entry a[href*="http"], .commentlist a[href*="http"], .entrytext a[target="_blank"] {
     padding-right: 7px;
     background: url('images/kubricklink-out.gif') right top no-repeat;
     }

In addition, I also implemented WP-Touched plugin for inline post editing without having to go to the Admin panel. Works great!

Edited

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/wp-content/themes/_theme_of_choice_/index.php

by adding

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<?php twTouch(); ?>

Update:“WP-Touched” crashes browsers sometimes. I haven’t been able to consistently replicate the problem yet. But it’s been crashing Firefox 1.0.5 and Safari 2.0 (412.2).