Related Entries Plugin

Related Entries is a plugin for Movable Type that displays entries that are in the same category as the current entry.

If you place your entries in categories, you can use this tag provide your readers with the same sort of "Related Articles" feature that is often found on magazine and news sites.

Tim Appnel has taken over the maintenance and support of this plugin as of Oct 2004.

Download. You can get Related Entries by downloading RelatedEntries.zip.

Installation. Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped RelatedEntries.zip, connect to your FTP server and open the directory where you have Movable Type installed.

Create a directory there called plugins if there isn’t one already.

Copy RelatedEntries.pl to the plugins directory and set the permissions to 755.

Using Related Entries. Once you’ve installed Related Entries, using it is as simple as placing a new Movable Type tag in your template.

The <MTRelatedEntries> tag is a container tag. It requires an opening and closing tag, just like the built-in MTEntries tag. Related Entries only works in an individual archive template.

To insert related entries into your individual archives, put the MTRelatedEntries container in your template, and then put an MTEntries tag block inside of it.

Example:

<MTRelatedEntries>
<MTEntries lastn="3">
<p><a href="<MTEntryLink>"><MTEntryTitle></a> -
<i><$MTEntryDate format="%b %d, %Y"$></i></p>
</MTEntries>
</MTRelatedEntries>

License. Like our other freeware, this plugin is released under the open-source MIT License. In plain English, that means you can do whatever you want with the software, including modifying it, selling it, or eating it, but we’re not responsible for anything that goes wrong.

Revision History
1.0 - July 6, 2002
Initial release.

1.1 - July 8, 2002
(New) If Related Entries is used outside your individual archives, you are now warned when you try to rebuild.

Moloko
August 30, 2004 2:36 AM

Hello. Great plug-in!

But: there is a way to show the current post in the “related post” and have it not clickable?

I need it for a list of products, the list should be the same, but i don’t wont the link to the product i’m looking.

thanks M

Trackback from お知らせ
October 26, 2004 1:06 AM

Related Entries Plugin を導入

Excerpt: Related Entries Pluginより。 ニュースサイトのように関連記事を表示したかったので導入してみました。...

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October 29, 2004 12:43 AM

自サイト内の関連記事を拾うプラグイン

Excerpt: 自ブログ内の関連する記事を 自動で拾う方法はないかと、考えていました。 カテゴリで区切ってある程度は うまくいきますが 忘れている記事や、同じようなタイトル、また連載の...

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January 3, 2005 1:41 AM

Related Entries Plugin

Excerpt: 利用Keyword来进行MT的「关联文章」的表示方法已经有介绍了。今天又看到了一...

surfer
January 11, 2005 7:40 AM

I just install your plugin (MT3.14), but I get this error: Use of uninitialized value in length at /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/plugins/RelatedEntries.pl line 19. splice() offset past end of array at /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/plugins/RelatedEntries.pl line 77.

What must I do? Thanks.

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