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Multiple Related Content Metaboxes

Working on a project that features a variety of related content... I ran across a very slick plugin that is very intuitive and easy to use called:

Related Links
by Triggvy Gunderson
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-links/

However, instead of pulling in all types of content into this feature (pages, posts, custom post types, etc) like this plugin does, I would like to create multiple instances of this plugin within the admin side where each instance focuses on a specific type of content.

For example, one instance pulling in only pages for a "Related Pages" section on the front-end... Another one instance pulling in a custom post type called "whitepaper" for a "Related Whitepapers" section on the front-end... This way I have more control over how these related items are displayed in the front-end, instead of listing all of these related items in the same list as the above plugin does.

I did a quick mockup to show how this plugin would look like in this scenario:
http://swept.co/_dev/related-link-expanded.png

OR, If someone can give me some insight in how to add a metabox that features a multi-select form that pulls in a specified type of content (for example, all pages only), and allows the user to select multiple pages from this section and display them in a list on the front-end ...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Michael Brumm | 02/07/13 at 5:04pm Edit
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    02/07/13
    5:24pm
    Naveen Chand says:

    Below code is an example of an instance which generates links in whitepapers custom post type.


    
<?php if(function_exists('get_related_links')) : ?>
    
    <?php $related_links = get_related_links('whitepapers'); ?>
    
    <ul>
    
        <?php foreach ($related_links as $link): ?>
    
            <li><a href="<?php echo $link['url']; ?>"><?php echo $link['type']; ?>: <?php echo $link['title']; ?></a></li>
    
        <?php endforeach; ?>
    
    </ul>
    
<?php endif; ?>


    You can add this code at different places in your page template or sidebar template files. Each time you add, just remember to give unique variable names to $related_links and $link.

    This way you can generate any number of instances on the front-end.

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    02/07/13
    5:26pm
    Kyle says:

    I can see you are looking for a very custom solution, but thought I would show this if you haven't seen it as a money saving solution :)

    http://codecanyon.net/item/better-related-posts-widget/427853?sso?WT.ac=search_item&WT.seg_1=search_item&WT.z_author=mordauk

    You can choose any available taxonomy for each instance

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    02/07/13
    5:47pm
    Michael Brumm says:

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

    This will work just fine... I was making it overly complicated.

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    02/07/13
    5:52pm
    Michael Brumm says:

    Sorry, haven't used this system in awhile and wanted to give Naveen credit specifically...

    Naveen Chand, you solved my problem without overly complicating things... I was unaware of this feature with this plugin... Again, many thanks.

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