I just wrote two posts which will be automatically published on different days, but the first one links to the other one. So the link will be dead for some time until the other post is published. I realized that this problem could be solved by a simple plugin which would do stuff (e.g. create active links) when the right time comes. Is there anyone else who would need this? Having dead links is not a problem for me, but if there are enough people I might consider creating a new plugin that would take care of this.
I'm curious about the plugin and how it works. Is it works by checking the 'related future post' and enable the link or by using cron job? It may come handy for marketing and any other purposes. I like to write articles by doing these: Describe the title Add supporting idea Add more opinion Summarize it Point 2 and three usually use numbering. Read below: Title: What to do in university Describing: University is best place to do lots of interesting activities. Supporting idea: <link here>Reading in Library</link here>. Library has resources and literature about anything. It has internet access which enable student to get information from various connected online library. <link here>Doing Researches</link here>. It is encouraged for each student to do some researches. It is.... Basically I make at least five supporting ideas which are going to be explained in another future articles. I will make each articles exactly the same as listed in (<link here>title of articles</link here>). This is what I did in the past: Creating first post (just like above - let's call it 'A'). Creating another post in another day which explained each supporting idea in post 'A'. I call this 'B1', 'B2', 'B3', and so on. Each of them will link to post 'A' (listed in supporting idea). I edit post 'A' whenever I created post 'B1'. Take a link from post 'B1' and link it to post 'A' (in supporting idea above). I did the same for 'B2','B3', and so on. Everything was done manually. Judging from my experiences above. Your plugin may come in handy if another blogger doing the same thing as what I did. With your plugin, basically I will create a link in each 'supporting idea' to future post. When I create future post, older article will make the link visible (enable it) without the need to edit and insert the link. A handy plugin for anyone whom thinking for writing related articles. Arick.
Yeah, exactly. There also might be a list of "required articles" like on the Wikipedia, which will be automatically created with planned links pointing to yet non-existent posts. The plugin might allow changing links' URL and anchor text automatically/from one place etc. But I really don't want to make a plugin and then realize that only I and 3 other people use it, so before I decide to spent time on it, I need to know if there is actually a need for this plugin.
I understand your point of view. Creating a something which is using by many peoples is important to bring back the spirits to develop a plugin. I was creating a plugin which doing basic function to print: Category description Sub category (Title and links) without description. In each category. Creating a hook in function, trying to inject it each theme and calling category using get_categories('child_of='.$cat) and it work nice. However, the plugin was never being released to public as I believe not all people need it. I lost the code when my HDD crashed but it isn't that hard to create it. I'm not using the plugin again but modifying the theme to do the same thing (print category description and sub category which created nice structured information for both SE and visitors). Back to the topic, if a someone create a website just like wikipedia, your plugin will come in handy. There will be no 404 links. New links will be created if there is future related post being created. Let's hope many blogger realize the importance of your new plugin.
Yes, I think it's a great idea. Very useful for a series of articles. Also useful if you later forget to interlink, for example.
Good idea, I think it can be very helpful... I also use your plugin that you developed (Automatic Post Tagger) and I really like your work.. This isn't sucking up, this is a my honest opinion of your work.. Currently, I'm building my new portfolio where is a section named ''Plugins'' but till now I made only one plugin so that category is empty.. If you develop a plugin, I will gladly advertise you in my section, of course if you want..I will fill my section more, and you are going to get free advertising..
It has been released, mate: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/new-wp-plugin-automatic-post-date-filler.2668401/ Congratulations to Comrade Devtard. It inspired me to get working on a plugin of my own. (Thanks, mate, I ended up having to write it in JavaScript/JQuery - ugh! )
APDF and the plugin described in the first post are not the same, although they both work with scheduled posts. APDF just helps with scheduling, this plugin will change post content (e.g. add links) when another post is released, which is much more complex. I still haven't figured out how exactly it should work. I hope that I'll get to it when I release APT v1.6 and APDF v1.1, and the first version of one of my other plugins that I currently have on my to-do list. Thanks. I am actually glad that there are tons of JS stuff on the internet (especially on websites like Stackoverflow), because I am too lazy to learn this language. When I sufficiently improve my PHP skills, I'll have to take a look at it though, because I'd also like to create a few Firefox/Thunderbird addons. If you release your plugin to the public, let us know.
My brain obviously isn't capable of reading English on night shift lol! Note to self: "this automatic thingamabob is not the same as the other automatic thingamabob." @Safaseo sorry about that, mate!