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Like the Disqus in this blog, I have just added LinkWithin related posts widget. I dont want to load a lot of stuff, a simple loader button, I am okay with that.

Initially, LinkWithin gives me this piece of code:

<script>
var linkwithin_site_id = <THE_ID>;
</script>
<script src="http://www.linkwithin.com/widget.js"></script>
<a href="http://www.linkwithin.com/"><img src="http://www.linkwithin.com/pixel.png" alt="Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger..." style="border: 0" /></a>

With some testing, my final addition to my template is:

<section id='post-related'>
  <h2 id='linkwithin-related-posts'>Possibly (not) related posts</h2>
  <div class="linkwithin_div"/>
  <script>var linkwithin_site_id = <THE_ID>;</script>
  <input id='linkwithin-loader-button' onclick='$.ajaxSetup({cache:true});$.getScript(&quot;http://www.linkwithin.com/widget.js&quot;);$.ajaxSetup({cache:false});$(this).remove();' style='width:100%;margin:10px auto;' type='button' value='Click to load related posts via LinkWithin'/>
</section>

with:

#linkwithin_text_0 {
  display: none;
}

Its very similar the one for Disqus, only changes the values and links. I use CSS to hide LinkWithins heading text, which doesnt work very well with my layout, instead of changing text via:

<script>linkwithin_text='Your custom text:'</script>

In the official code, there is a 1x1 image link, I thought I might need it to make sure crawling working, because I suspect thats how LinkWithin being aware of a post. But after clicking on few posts, it can show me related posts, although they dont seem related at this moment. Anyway, that image link isnt required from what Ive seen.

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Now, why I want to add LinkWithin? Because for the last year, I have been manually adding related posts lists to posts. I must say, I dont like that, because my posts are in VCS, so any modifications will create new commits. Using automatically generated lists have its trade-off, they might not be actually related to the post, but thats a trade I am willing to exchange with the amounts of commits.

Anyway, I was hoping there is a even easier method, like a link, which leads to related posts services website, where they give you the list. I dont mind redirect readers to other sites, but there seems to be none of such way of providing related posts list.

Enjoy the thumbnaild related posts!