Previous and next post link for a sadish blog

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:05 pm

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  Am completely new to this and frustratingly inept in all of this…but am hoping someone can give me some help. I’d like to add a previous post/next post link at the top of each blog entry. How do I do this? Searching this reveals that this function has been “deprecated”. Any help would be most appriated

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm

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  If this is the blog you are talking about http://tanyablog.wordpress.com/ , then it is not possible. That would require access to the underlying theme files, and we do not have that access.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:29 pm

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  tanyablog

  You can hand-code the links:

  <div style="float: left; width: 50%;"><a href="LINK_TO_PREVIOUS_POST/" target="_self"><span style="padding-right:1em">LEFT_CONTENT_HERE</span></a></div>
  <div style="float: right; width: 50%;"><a href="LINK_TO_NEXT_POST" target="_self"><span style="padding-left:1em">RIGHT_CONTENT_HERE</span></a></div>

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:38 pm

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  Aha…so it’s not possible with Mistylook by Sadish then? I’ll need to adopt a different theme?

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:39 pm

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  1 tess…will try that…your reply came in just as I was typing. Thanks!

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:44 pm

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  1 tess…I tried that code and here’s what the page looks like:
  http://tanyablog.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/shiny-happy-jewellery/

  Told you I was inept! Not sure what to do now.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 5:55 pm

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  You need to put that in the html post editor, not the visual.

  However, since your pages show more than one posts, I don’t really see what the use of such links is: previous/next is right below/above, and you’ve got older/newer tabs at the end of each page.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:24 pm

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  Panos,

  ummm… no, not on Misty Look when you are looking at a single post view.

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:25 pm

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  Fabulous…thank you so very much!!!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:33 pm

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  Tanya,

  Might I suggest that you put the code at the end of your posts. Your front page is composed of just the beginning or your posts and the next and previous posts are redundant when viewing the whole page of posts.

  Or, with Misty Look, you can make custom excerpts for your posts: write your own introduction to them then paste into the “excerpts module.”

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:36 pm

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  @Tess: Oh I see – my bad!

  (Still, to me the redundancy on the main page is worse than the defect in the single-post view.)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:39 pm

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  @Panos,
  Exactly. That’s why I suggested she use the except feature so she could leave that part of the post off.
  Or put it at the bottom.

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:44 pm

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  @Panos and 1 tess…here’s what it looks like:

  Shiny happy jewellery

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:52 pm

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  @Tanya,
  Looks good!
  Tess

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 6:59 pm

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  @Tanya: Yeah, looks good. (I wouldn’t do it, for the reason I explained – but it’s your blog, not mine!)

  May I suggest a small tweak? For the right links, instead of
  <div style="float:right;width:50%;">
  write
  <div align="right" style="float:right;width:50%;">
  so that the link will be flush right.

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  tanyablog · Member · Jun 17, 2009 at 7:01 pm

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  How lovely are you two. Thanks a million…this has been bugging me for about 2 months. RELIEF!