Christopher Vollick pointed out to me yesterday that my site was not supporting rel=next and rel=prev. For those who don’t know, these rel attributes have been with HTML since HTML3, and they allow you to easily use a bookmarklet or extension or whatever you want to go to the next/previous page in a set of pages (like blogs archives). This is a really great thing, and I was a bit suprised WordPress doesn’t support it by default.
This can partly be implemented with a plugin, but unfortunately to fully implement it I needed to create a 3 line patch to core. I have uploaded the tiny plugin and the patch to a gist so you can download them and install/apply to get these great features on your site!
6 Responses
Anonymous •
You might want to submit this as a bug/patch to WordPress.
Stephen Paul Weber •
Good idea. Done: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10180
Srinivas •
Has it been rectified in the newer versions of wordpress releases?
Stephen Paul Weber •
There’s only been one release since I published this patch, and no, this patch has not yet been mainlined 🙂
nlpdir •
can you give me new link-templates.php that you have been patched
because i do know how to patch wordpress core
so, i can use your plugin
thanks…
Stephen Paul Weber •
I’m pretty sure this is now in core… what version are you running?