17 May 2012

Importance of Related Entries & How to Include it in your Blog

As we all know that blog posting is extremely important task that one can easily perform to get best results. Blog is much important for your business by which you can easily maximize the online presence of your business. But, you have to make sure that you take time to keep your blog updated and exciting so that readers get interest in your blog. With some tips and tricks, you can easily keep your blog active and can draw more and more readers. You also have to make sure to create informative blogs regarding your products and services. Blog posting is essential for those people who are looking to get increased or higher search engine rankings.

Firstly, you keep in mind to provide new information with each post and keep your information existing and latest because blog readers are looking forward to know what’s going on and is this affects their business or not. There are various blog websites that offer scheduled blogs for its readers. If you are updating blog regularly then related entries with your blog also plays an important role in your business. Through related entries feature in your blog, readers can get huge information on related topics. And your website can also get many views on various blogs also that is much beneficial for you. So, creating related entries feature in your blog is important by which you can get more views on your other blogs. There are many websites on the web that are using plug-in to add related entries feature in their blog post but to utilize it more easily and conveniently, you can use below code:

[code]

<?php

//RELATED TAG DISPLAY

$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);

if ($tags) {

echo ‘<div class=”youlike_text”>You may also like:</div>’;

$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;

$args=array(

‘tag__in’ => array($first_tag),

‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),

‘showposts’=>3,

‘caller_get_posts’=>1

);

$my_query = new WP_Query($args);

if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { ?>

<?php

while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>

<?php

$img = get_post_meta($post->ID, “Image”, true);

if($img){

<div class=”gallery_img”><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><img src=”<?php echo $img; ?>” alt=”” width=”200″ height=”81″ /></a></div>

<?php } ?>

</div>

</div>

<?php

endwhile; ?>

</div>

<?php }

//wp_reset_query();

}

//END

[/code]

Author: Harshal Shah

Harshal Shah is CEO & Founder of Xhtmljunkies, Located in Gujarat, India, XHTML Junkies is one of the best companies that offer unique eCommerce solutions by the virtue of its dedicated professionals. Our professionals are extremely proficient in offering development services pertaining to eCommerce. You can find Harshal on Google+ and Twitter.