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defining related articles
I think some way to define a specific list of related articles would be useful.
Rather than relying on the available search-based related articles systems, I’d like to be able to generate a list of links to particular articles – maybe via a comma separated list in a custom field with a upm_image-style picker to add the ID numbers from a pop-up article page.
I can see this might be a bit unweildly in a site with hundreds of articles, but maybe someone could make it work.
thanks for listening ;)
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Re: defining related articles
I use chh_related_article plugin, it’s handy and customizable. Maybe can do for you.
Bye
Z-
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Re: defining related articles
Thanks Zanza
It’s a fine plugin, but it doesn’t quite do what I suggested….
With chh_related_article you can use the relation attribute to map the data for comparison
eg <code>relation=“custom_1->keywords”</code>
but you can only map the custom field to category, keywords & author values – all of which are likely to be shared my many other articles.
What I’m suggesting is an easy way to create a list of links to a particular set of articles – that you can define by their unique values – like the article-id or the title.
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Re: defining related articles
pieman wrote:
What I’m suggesting is an easy way to create a list of links to a particular set of articles – that you can define by their unique values – like the article-id or the title.
I’m actually very scheptical about this. Relating articles by id or title would create a lot of problems.
I do have a suggestion with which you might achieve what you want though.
Create link categories and relate your articles through them…
Yiannis
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I’ve been doing it with Categories as well when I have needed to do this. I’m not sure it’s the best way, but it works well enough.
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- you write a series of articles on a particular subject and publish them over a long period of time, but want to generate a list of links to part1/part2/part3 etc at the bottom of the article.
- more specifically (& the scenario which made me suggest this idea) a site for a club night has an events section, and a section for interviews. In an events page they want to link to a previous interview that’s relevent to the guest at a particular night.
- end-user writes the link(s) manually with Textile
- using tru_tags and chh_related_articles give the related articles unique tags (but not show them in the page)
- use link categories, as colak suggests
- you could mark-up and style the output properly.
- it would be more user-friendly…
Anyway, it’s just an idea… thought I’d write it down as it came to me! Your comments are appreciated.
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