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From both a Search Engine Optimization and a usability point of view, everyone agrees that displaying similar entries with each blog post helps. Internal links help search engines crawl and categorize your site, and readers will spend more time if they can quickly discover content similar to what they are reading.

To that end i added Wasabi’s Related Entries plugin to posts. Installing the plugin was a breeze, i copied the related-posts.php file into my plugins directory, activated the plugin from the admin panel and from there clicked on a link to set up the database table that holds the related links information.

Modifying plugin options like the amount of related posts to appear on each page and the HTML output is all done using the plugin’s configuration page in your admin panel. To have the plugin actually display in the post pages i opened the single.php file from my template and pasted the plugin code <?php related_posts(); ?>, and some tinkering with CSS to give it it’s own box.

Overall, Wasabi’s Related Entries is a very useful plugin for any kind of blog, and can help both your blog’s SEO and your page views.