I've been recently using a template this
-<pre>
-----
-Related posts:
+ ----
+ Related posts:
-[[\!inline pages="blog/posts/*
- and !blog/posts/*/*
- and !Discussion
- and !tagged(draft)
- and <TMPL_VAR raw_tagged>"
- archive="yes"
- quick="yes"
- show="5"]]
-</pre>
+ \[[!inline pages="blog/posts/*
+ and !blog/posts/*/*
+ and !Discussion
+ and !tagged(draft)
+ and <TMPL_VAR raw_tagged>"
+ archive="yes"
+ quick="yes"
+ show="5"]]
-Which I then call by doing this at the end of my blog posts on my ikiwiki install
+Which I then call by doing this at the end of my blog posts on my
+ikiwiki install
-<pre>
-[[\!tag software linux]]
-[[\!template id=related tagged="tagged(software) or tagged(linux)"]]
-</pre>
+ \[[!tag software linux]]
+ \[[!template id=related tagged="tagged(software) or tagged(linux)"]]
-It somewhat works, I was wondering if anyone else has tried to do something like the above to get "related posts" based on tags. The way that I have done it isn't very clever as it only links to the last 5 most recently posted items based on my parameters. Is it possible to "randomly" select a bunch of links from a set of user defined pagespecs?
+It somewhat works, I was wondering if anyone else has tried to do
+something like the above to get "related posts" based on tags. The way
+that I have done it isn't very clever as it only links to the last 5
+most recently posted items based on my parameters. Is it possible to
+"randomly" select a bunch of links from a set of user defined
+pagespecs?
-I know that the [[backlinks]] plugin exists for this sort of stuff (related links), it just lacks some user configuration options.
+I know that the [[backlinks]] plugin exists for this sort of stuff
+(related links), it just lacks some user configuration options.
+
+> I guess what you need is an extension to [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] to support "random" as a sort method. Remember though, that the chosen few would only change when the page was regenerated, not on every page view. -- [[Jon]]