I don’t normally mention anything when I add a new WP plugin to this site but this one is very new and quite useful.
While displaying too many plugins can make a blog look cluttered and unprofessional, contextual internal links can increase your pageviews and make your site flow more intuitively.
If you haven’t already grabbed it, download and install a Related Posts plugin and then install the Where Did They Go From Here plugin.
Where Did They Go From Here is very similar to the Amazon list that say something like, People who Bought this Also Bought…
Basically, once installed it can track where users click after they have viewed one of your single posts. Unfortunately.. there is no relationship between this plugin and the Recent Posts plugin so you will often see duplicate links across the two lists.
Installation is routine (follow the instructions on the plugin page) except that the plugin attempts to hook into the WP footer and display itself just before the comments. This type of installation will probably work for most people but I found it to result in a badly displayed page when applied to my severely hacked theme.
The fix is simple however, all I had to do was comment out this line in the plugin:
add_action(’comment_form’,’show_where_they_go’);
And add a function call to single.php just above where I placed the Recent Posts call:
<?php show_where_they_go();?>
That was it! The content will start populating once people begin to click away from your single post pages. I highly recommend this plugin!
