One of the things that’s come to my attention when blogging is the importance of a good internal linking strategy. While WordPress has it’s own links and it’s important to set up a good permalink structure, it’s also important to cross-link to related posts from within single posts.
To that end, using one of the number of available ‘Related Posts’ plugins available is a very good idea. Having a look around these ones seem to be some of the best options:
Similar Posts (requires Post Plugin Library.)
Efficient Related Posts
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
It will of course depend what kind of options you are after for the plugin (whether you want to include related posts in your RSS feed for example) but any of these can do a really good job. For more information on their various features, check out
this discussion of related post plugins.
As you can see on this blog I have one installed, in this case YARPP. Unfortunately I find there is very few plugins that let you change the display option order in their settings and this is one of them. Instead, you can edit yarpp.php and change this line:
to this:
(I don’t know what the 1200 is about, the valid values are from 1 to 10, 10 being the latest.) But here I am using it in conjunction with the Pingback Pro list which is set to 10.
