Links to other posts with the same tag

[susanreads]

Title:
Links to other posts with the same tag

Area:
tags, entries, content discovery

Summary:
Add links for previous and next entries using a given tag, when you've gone to a post via the tag list

Description:
If I want to look through someone's entries with a particular tag, which are scattered among other entries, the only way I know of at the moment is to keep going back to the list of posts that you get when you click on the tag. It would be smoother if there were prev/next links between the entries.

Drawback: because an entry can have a lot of tags on, it would be unwieldy to have 2 extra links per tag, so you need a way to decide which tag to provide sequential links for. If a specific tag was defined as the active one, because you came to the post by clicking on it, perhaps the links could be dynamically allocated?

In cases such as reading a work that's being published in chapters, or reviews of episodes of a specific show, the author could provide links, but that would involve going back to the previous chapter or episode and editing in a link, so it's extra work for the author. If there was a way of doing it under reader control using the existing tags, it would be easier and also cover situations where the journal author didn't know it would be wanted.

Poll #1392 Links to other posts with the same tag

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (47.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (17.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (13.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (21.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[kaigou]

Perhaps instead, if you select a tag to view, and the URL thus says "you.dw.org/this+tag", if you click on one of those, *then* you'd get the forward/back. In the sense that you're moving forward back through this kind of an archive, except it's tag-based, not calendar-based.

Otherwise, as someone who puts five, six, seven tags on my own posts, that dynamic post-tag-forward-back element could get very very messy on the post, very fast. I'd think.

[msilverstar]

this one works for me!

[cesy]

If a specific tag was defined as the active one, because you came to the post by clicking on it, perhaps the links could be dynamically allocated?

I'd vote for this part, because of the drawbacks you mentioned, though I'm still not entirely sure how implementing it would work.

[kyrielle]

This.

[afuna]

How about something as a "module" -- e.g., in the sidebar, or at the top or bottom of the page instead of in the same line as where the generic previous/next links are.

Oh, though I guess that wouldn't work in sitescheme pages.