While publishing posts in WordPress blog, it is recommended that you have a related posts section which fetches posts related to the published posts and also increases the page views. Related Posts for WordPress is a Windows Live Writer plugin which allows you to insert post links into your articles. Once configured, it can retrieve all the posts from your hosted WordPress blog and allow you to select one or more posts and inserts into the post.
To configure the plugin, download it and add the two files to WLW plugins folder (C:Program FilesWindows LiveWriterPlugins). Now restart Windows Live Writer and you can see the related posts plugin in the ribbon. You need to specify the blog URL, username and password.
Click on retrieve posts will fetch all the posts from your blog. If your blog has large number of posts, then you need to wait until all posts are retrieved. You can select one or multiple posts and then insert it into posts.
Features of Related Post Plugin for WLW;
- Ability to store your blog details and settings
- Encloses the related links in DIV—>UL—>LI html links
- Allows for CSS class labelling of the DIV, UL and LI Links, so that you can control the look and feel of the links
- Gives an un-styled preview of the links to show you at a glance which links have been chosen and will be inserted into the post.
- Allows to insertion of “target=_blank” in the a links to allow the links to be opened in a new window if required
More details on how to use the plugin can be found here. We have tested the plugin on Windows Live Writer 2011 and works well, but for blogs with large posts, it might get hang sometimes.
Download Related Posts from WordPress Plugin for Windows Live Writer
