WordPress Plugin, Next Question – lets you add teasers to the end of blog posts

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I made this plugin becuase many posts I write will have follow-up posts. For example, if you are blogging about how to lose weight, you might write a series of blog posts. In each blog post you can add a teaser that tells the reader what is coming in the next blog post and provides an email subscription link so the reader can subscribe to your blog and get notified when the new content in posted.

The plugin also checks to see if the new blog post has been answers, and turns the email subscribe link into a link to the new post from the teaser box.

I use post-metadata to display and check the follow-up blog posts.

Download the plugin Here

There are 3 Custom fields you will need to add to you posts

• question – This is the question that will be displayed.
  For Example: “In my next post I will show you some recipes that helped me lose over 20 pounds”
• question_name – This is the identifier that will be used by the question answered custom tag.
  For Example: “recipes”
• question_answered – This custom tag is used on the second blog post (answer post). Enter the question name of the original blog post. This will change the display and provide a link to the new blog posts.
  For example: “recipe”

Examples in action

Example of the first post:
The first post needs a question and a question_name

This will produce a teaser at the end of your first post like below:

Example of the second post:
The second post needs question_answered.

This will produce a new link in the teaser at the end of your first post like below:

The second post will not have questions associated with it. You can add a question and question_name to the second post to continue the series of posts.

You only have to add new custom tags the first time. After that, they will be available as a dropdown item for your next posts.