Smarter Navigation

Generates more specific previous / next post links based on referrer.

Author:scribu, versusbassz (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.2
WordPress version tested:3.5.2
Plugin version:1.4
Added to WordPress repository:18-02-2009
Last updated:18-09-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smarter-n...
Total downloads:18 471
Active installs:500+
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When displaying a single post, you might want to show links to the previous and next posts in the same category.

That's fine; WordPress let's you do this with previous_post_link() and next_post_link().

But what if that post is in multiple categories?

What if the user came to that post from a tag page or from an author page? Wouldn't it make more sense to display previous / next posts from that particular set?

Well, you can do this with a similar pair of functions, provided by this plugin: previous_post_smart() and next_post_smart().

Here's how it works:

Whenever a visitor goes to an archive page (category, tag, date, author, search etc.), the plugin notes which archive it is in a browser cookie.

Then, if the visitor goes to a single post from that archive page, the plugin generates the prev / next links based on the information in the cookie.

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