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How to Show Related Posts Under Each Article in WB Member Blog
How to show related posts under every article with WB Member Blog, step by step. Open WB Plugins, then Member Blog, then Features and switch on Related posts, in the group On your site's own pages, then click Save Features. It starts off, because many themes show their own related posts and two strips look broken. On the Content tab, How many related posts takes a number from one to twelve, four by default, shown two to a row and one to a row on a phone; click Save Settings. The strip appears after the article and the author box. Related posts share a category or a tag with the post being read, and the newest posts fill the strip when too few match.
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In this tutorial you will show a strip of related posts under every article on your site. You need the free WB Member Blog plugin, installed and active. It takes about two minutes. There are four steps. Turn on Related posts. Choose how many to show. See the strip under a post. Then know how posts are picked.
Step one. Turn on Related posts. Open WB Plugins, then Member Blog, then Features. Related posts is in the first group, On your site's own pages. It starts off, because many themes show their own related posts, and two strips look broken. If your theme has none, switch it on. Then click Save Features.
Step two. Choose how many to show. Open the Content tab. Under Post Behaviour is How many related posts. Pick a number from one to twelve. Four is the default. They show two to a row, and one to a row on a phone. Click Save Settings at the foot of the tab.
Step three. See the strip under a post. Open any post as a reader. After the article comes Related posts. Here are four posts, two to a row, each with its picture, writer and date.
Step four. Know how posts are picked. Related posts share a category or a tag with the post you read. This post is in Design, and so are all four. When too few posts match, the newest posts fill the strip, so a reader always has somewhere to go next.
That is all four. Related posts on, how many to show, the strip under a post, and how posts are picked. Your readers now have somewhere to go next. Next in this series: Send followers a digest email.