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Ho do you make “related articles’ at the end of an article? Should I just do manually or is there a code that will select it automatically.

Thanks!!

The easiest way is to use EE categories.  Assign all of your articles to categories, and then use and additional channel:entries loop using the related categories mode - which will return other entries from the same category.

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Yes - related categories mode returns all other articles from the same category.  It’s a looser relationship (speaking generically) than the more formal relationship tools mentioned which are more direct/specific.  That does come at the content management cost of actually having to select the group of “related” articles for each new article however.

But—I always recommend the free/easy approach first..😉

Thanks for the replies!

I am still using 1.9 and didn’t quite understand the word “channels” at first. Now I get it. It is our old “weblog”

I cannot get it to work. Instead of the articles in related categories, it just shows recent articles.

{exp:weblog:entries related_categories_mode="on" limit="3" }

<a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a>

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Specify a weblog.

I tried that.Still doesn’t work.

Is it a url thing?

Possibly. The following must be true:

- The entry must be assigned to a category.
- There must be other entries in the same category.
- The entry url_title must be in the page’s url (a single entry page, in other words).
- The weblog entry tag must be left in dynamic mode.
- The weblog must be specified.

Possibly. The following must be true:
...

- The weblog must be specified.

Question—if I’m on a single-entry page (e.g. site/comments) then how do I specify the weblog for related entries? I can’t hard-code the weblog parameter because I don’t know what weblog they’re coming from to reach that single-entry template…?

Thanks!

You can specify multiple weblogs - just specify all of them that could have related entries.

Wow. Me stupid. 😉 Thanks!