Finding the right modules for Drupal 6.x can sometimes be a challenge for those of us still transitioning from WordPress. One of plugins I like for WordPress is called “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.”
After quite a lot of searching and reading, I found what I was looking for in the Drupal Module called Similar Entries. There is a version for 6.X, 5.x and 4.7
One of my concerns with the Similar Entries Module for Drupal 6.x was it had not been updated since 2008-Apr-07. So Of course this brings up the question of will it work?
Installation of the module is of course pretty straight forward. The module works by finding data based on the title and body fields that are of course similar in nature.
After Installing the module, I enabled the block in the content section. Going into the configuration section, within the block is where we will find some of the settings.
Within The “Similar Entries” Block, we have the Block Title, where we can give it a title, I left mine blank. We have the following options:
- Include Teaser Text – Yes or No
- Bock Search Engines – Yes or No
- Number Of Similar Entries to Find: 1 to 100?
Next we have the Taxonomy Category Filter, here we can choose, no category filtering, only show the similar nodes in the same category as the orginal node, use global filtering
Next we have the Taxonomy Categories to Display, followed by the different specific visiblity settings. Overall it’s a great module that appears to work very well alleviating any of my original fears that Similar Entries module for drupal would not work.
Here is the link to the download section of Drupal so you can get the Similar Entries Module. As you go through the website here, you’ll get examples of just how well this module works.
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Finding if a module that solves your problem already exists is possibly THE biggest difficulty with Drupal. Whatever your problem may be there’s probably at least one module that solves it, but it may not solve it exactly how you’d like. It’s also not trivial to find out if such a module exists.
I found the similar entries module better to use. the CRE module depends upon voting api and similarity module.
And similarity module is just in a DEV version.
Check out Showing Similar content nodes on Drupal
Also, for Drupal 6, you might want to check out the featured content module for easily creating lots of different kinds of featured and related content blocks including sorting by closest match by terms:
http://drupal.org/project/featured_content
Cheers,
Kristen
Thanks for that update Kristen,
It’s nice to have alternatives as new modules come out to better fit the needs of the individual – website owner.
Thanks for your post — the module worked great on my Drupal 6 blog.
This is a great post. There is also a comparison of several content recommendation modules at http://groups.drupal.org/node/12347 Perhaps you could add your thoughts there to help people decide?