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What do you show the reader after they have read your content? Do you show them an empty comment box? A small unrelated block of automated text?
Instead use afterRead to present an active post footer driving visitors back into the site, don’t waste a prime opportunity. Presently afterRead’s options are focused on driving visitors back into other related articles, but afterRead is capable of much more so expect to see new innovative Suggestions.
Features;
* Add Previous and Next post links to the bottom of posts. These links can potentially be to any post, to only posts in the same category, or even only to posts with a matching tag. By default there are three styles to choose from, these styles integrate well with most themes.
* Suggestions can be anything from a donate button to a subscribe button to anything you can imagine.
* afterRead is modular and made of two primary parts, the afterRead core, and afterRead suggestions.
This allows for updates that do not revert changes and for easy custom extension of functionality.
* You can easily add new suggestions by simply pasting code into a text box in the afterRead settings page
== Installation ==
1. Upload `afterread’ folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
1. Navigate to the afterRead settings page found under the “Settings” menu
1. Select a different suggestion or use the default
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= What is a Suggestion? =
A Suggestion is anything you want to encourage the reader to do once they have finished reading, commonly a link to other posts. A Suggestion file is a php file which afterRead core uses to generate a Suggestion.
= Do I need PHP or HTML knowledge to use afterRead? =
No, I have attempted to make afterRead extremely usable for anyone with limited knowledge or no knowledge of HTML and PHP. If there is a feature you’re confused about just tell me so that I can improve the documentation.
= I have an idea for a new Suggestion =
Perfect, the more Suggestions the better. If you get me an image of what you would like it to look like then I can see about coding it, I can’t promise I will be able to add it but I will certainly consider it.
= When using tag based Suggestions the links seem random =
This is quite confusing to see, but it’s actually logical. To illustrate this say we have a post, this post was made on the 20th and has a ‘cooking’ tag. Say there is then another post made on the 18th that had the ‘cooking’ tag and a ‘book’ tag, this will cause the 20th’s post to link to the 18th’s, now pretend that there was a post made on the 19th that only had the book tag, this will cause the 18th’s post to link to the 19th’s post and not the post made on the 20th.
= When using category based Suggestions the links seem random =
The same thing can happen for categories as happens with tags in the above question, it is less common because it is rather rare to add a post in two categories.
== Screenshots ==
1. Dynamic style 1 in a number of different styles displaying the Suggestion’s versatility
2. The backend as of 0.7.1.



Oh man, this is great! Installed. Thanks!
Great concept, but I had all kinds of loading errors when activating with WP 2.9.1.
Howard would you mind giving a bit more information about the errors?
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that write permissions stop the plugin from writing a file to the disk.
You see in order to make the “Add new suggestion” field secure I had to add a “security” key thats generated randomly on activation and then written out to the plugin directory.
Assuming that this is what is happening I will see about saving the security key only to the database.
@Warll
I have replied to your email, sir.
@Howard
Responded
Sorry Howard but nothing in afterRead could be causing that error, for dealing with that portion of the settings panel afterRead uses the built-in wordpress functions. As well in regards to the other ‘bug’ afterRead simply does not touch functionality in that portion of wordpress, nor does it touch things that might touch that functionality.
If anyone else encounters a bug please get in contact with me. So far afterRead has worked perfectly on every blog I tested it on.
It worked fine for me, too.
Good to hear and thank you for the support!
Hi
at first great plugin.
the plugin works butwith error on my backend.
thsi message comes:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxxxx/domains/elektroaktivisten.de/html/wp-content/plugins/afterread/afterRead.php:1) in /xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxxxx/domains/elektroaktivisten.de/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868
any idea?
Alright what you need to do is check afterRead.php and remove the extra empty lines before the first <?php. FYI: Those empty lines should not be there and they are not in the version of afterRead I uploaded to wordpress.org.
I found the fix here: http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=1743
YESSSSS.. now it works fine..
thanks for your help .. :)
tino
This plugin seems to instal and work fine, but I am unable to edit or write a new post without getting these errors below….I tried looking at other peoples suggestions above, but cannot find similar fixes, although I don’t know much code so may have missed something? I installed this plugin from within WP and have the most current version of this plugin and WP.
Any possible suggestions to get this working?
Errors:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home6/wildmanf/public_html/wp-content/plugins/afterread/afterRead.php:1) in /home6/wildmanf/public_html/wp-includes/classes.php on line 1586
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home6/wildmanf/public_html/wp-content/plugins/afterread/afterRead.php:1) in /home6/wildmanf/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868
It would appear that you are having the same problem as Tino had.
The same fix should work.
I think this may have to do with the fact that I used Unicode encoded text.
Thank you for mentioning where you installed from.
Thank you for responding so quickly, I did check to see if I had the same problem as Tino, but that wasn’t it…
I just installed your new update,and after you switched text encoding to ANSI from unicode that fixed all of my problems!
Thank you very much!!
Well that is simultaneously odd and awesome.
Thanks for the detailed bug report and thanks for using afterRead.
Hi, Just wanna say great plugin. I never thought about this, I had been using the default but I will definitely try this out.
how can i show only the post title
Fantastic plugin, thank you very much for this!
I was just wondering, would it be possible to align (in a straight line) the “previous” and “next” links, rather than one above the other? I’m not a programmer so no idea how to do this myself…
Thanks for your comment guys.
@mim: Try using style 2, it has only the post titles.
@Guy who forgot that wordpress uses noFollow links for comments: Thanks I’ve gone and changed it so that the left and right will now show up on the same line so long as there is enough room. This is for both style 1 and 2.
I’ve also fixed a bug the rendered my neat little “add suggestion” box broken. Just to clarify the add suggestion field will save the file to the suggestion directory and is a way to add new suggestions, it does not send me an email in any shape or form.
Wordpress should start pushing the update soon enough.