theirritablevegan

I can't believe this is not a standard feature and that more people are not requesting it! 🙄 I've seen a number of paid 3rd party plugins that do this very thing, so it can obviously be easily done. I don't see why I should have to pay a 3rd party on top of my paid squarespace business plan in order to achieve such a basic function. 😡

I contacted support about this issue and received a very polite but useless reply. Basically the options were;

1. Add specific tags to every single post I want to feature as a related post. This is a ridiculous suggestion!

• It would need to be done on every single post, every single time.
• If you want a post to show up as a related post on multiple posts you would need to add a seperate tag for each unique post so the tags would get crazy long.
• You would also need to hide tags for every post so all those random tags don't show up and confuse the reader.
• It would also mean that the related posts do not refresh by category unless you manually deleted and added new tags to every post on a regular basis.

2. Use custom code. The whole reason I use Squarespace is because I don't know how, and don't want to learn or deal with custom coding. Squarespace will not provide any support for custom code so even if I was willing to give it a go I wouldn't know what code to use or where to start.

I'd love to hear if anyone has any updates or advice on custom code that:

• Hides the active post from the related posts of the same category on that specific post
• Does not then hide the active post from showing up as a related post on other active posts
• Allows the related posts to update over time based on new blog posts added to that specific category
• Does not require to hide tags on each post or manually add unique tags to each post

I'd be really interested to hear from anyone using a theme that has the related posts function included in it's design. Does it automatically hide the active post? If so is there a way to reverse engineer a solution using the same code?

Am I wrong to think that it really doesn't seem like a big ask for such basic functionality?