bitful

I have installed a plugin that displays links to archived similar entries below each post. The past is coming back and biting my behind. Not sure I like it.

For a while now I have been wanting to display some links to similar posts below each entry. I had explored a few possibilities but I wanted something that worked with as little intervention on my part as possible. Ideally, with nothing for me to do at all.

Last night I found the Similar Posts Wordpress plugin. I have just unzipped it, uploaded and activated it, then inserted a tag in the core code and, lo and behold, old posts suddenly are there to haunt me.

Unlike other plugins that analyse the post title or its (manually chosen) tags, this one compares the content of the entire body text, stripping out stop works (editable list), and then outputs links to posts with the most matching words. I was a bit sceptical, but I changed my mind when I saw that more often than not it's chillingly accurate.

I started this weblog as a means to keep track of what I was doing for future reference. This plugin is a way to revisit the past. Enjoy it while it lasts because I have a feeling I might want to make the past shut up pretty soon. Not big on the past these days, me.

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