Related by RSS
I just noticed that Waypath can allow you to display related posts from the blogosphere at the end of every post in your blog. I noticed this on a post from Knowledge Jolt with Jack where one of my posts was included in the related posts
…there is also an Amazon version.
On another post I mentioned that Findory can do this, but I would not know how to include it at the end of every post…actually I don’t know how to include anything at the end of every post…I’d love this sort of functionality, but I’m just not techie enough…see more.
Also there is a difference between the two…with Findory it will find related articles based on your blog URL, but with Waypath it only does it at the post level.
Does anyone know how to find related posts from your own blog?
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John, Basically, you have to change templates and install some additional code in your blogging software. Check out the Waypath plugins page that directs you on how to do this for Wordpress: http://www.waypath.com/downloads.
Have fun, and thanks for the linkage.
Comment by Jack Vinson — July 13, 2005 @ 4:14 am
Why not construct an RSS feed of the format
http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?url=PERMALINK&mode=best
or
http://rss.waypath.com/query.xml?url=PERMALINK&hours=24&mode=new
and then run it through an RSS-to-JavaScript / HTML converter for each post?
Comment by Richard Akerman — July 13, 2005 @ 5:27 am
Richard,
Not sure what you mean by RSS feed of the format?
The way I see it is that if I make a related search feed of my blog home page (to put on the sidebar), it will show related articles to my home page only and not my actual posts
“…run it through an RSS-to-JavaScript / HTML converter for each post?”
Are you saying here that for each post, put the permaURL into Waypath related, then take that RSS feed and run it through a java converter, then go back to my post and edit in this code.
Obviously you don’t have to goto this trouble as you can include special code to automate it with every post…of course the expertise in knowing how to do this was my problem.
Or are you talking about putting the code into the sidebar…which works with finding related content to all my posts the way Findory does?
Comment by Johnt — July 14, 2005 @ 1:07 am