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Plugin Description
The SO Recommended Reading plugin is an Extension for the fantastic Meta Box plugin by Rilwis. The purpose of the plugin is to let the user add recommendations to external content.
With the plugin installed you will find a Recommended Reading box underneath the Post Editor. On the frontend the Recommended Articles are shown in their own class with an unordered list, right after the_content(). The class will use the styling of your theme and you can style it further to your own liking.
Background
During the Beijing WordPress Meetup of January 2014 a member asked me to recommend a plugin that would let him add links to articles he wants to recommend to the readers of his blog. He would like to give his readers such a Recommended Reading list on a daily basis.
Because I couldn’t come up with such a plugin from the top of my head and because I am planning on releasing a series of extensions for the Meta Box plugin, I thought it would be best to put something together myself.
The titles of the URLs you input are automatically extracted and shown on the front end. The meta box is only visible in the Edit Post screen
Since version 2014.07.29 the plugin has a small settings page where you can change the title of “Recommended Reading” into something that fits better with your site. I have also included the wpml-config.xml file, so if you run a multilingual website with WPML, you can translate this string via the String Translations page of WPML.
I have decided to only support this plugin through Github. Therefore, if you have any questions, need help and/or want to make a feature request, please open an issue over at Github. You can also browse through open and closed issues to find what you are looking for and perhaps even help others.
PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR ISSUES VIA THE WORDPRESS FORUMS
Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
Screenshots
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SO Recommended Reading meta box: type the URL of the article you want to link to.
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SO Recommended Reading output: you can style it to your liking.
