Title: Landing sites
Author: SomeUser
Published: <strong>October 24, 2008</strong>
Last modified: November 6, 2015

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Landing sites

 By [SomeUser](https://profiles.wordpress.org/devil1591/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/landing-sites.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/landing-sites/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/landing-sites/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/landing-sites/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/landing-sites/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/landing-sites/)

## Description

When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely
looking for something specific – often they just roughly check the page they land
on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not 
help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin
lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines!

### Details on functions

    ```
    ls_getinfo('isref')
    ```

Returning true if the referrer is a supported search engine – used as a conditional
tag

    ```
    ls_getinfo('terms')
    ```

Outputs the search terms

    ```
    ls_getinfo('referrer')
    ```

Outputs a link to the referring search engine

    ```
    ls_related()
    ```

Outputs the list of related posts. This can be customized by passing variables to
it. ls_related(‘limit’, ‘length’, ‘before title’, ‘after title’, ‘before post’, ‘
after post’, ‘show password protected posts’, ‘show post excerpts’).

    ```
    ls_search_engines()
    ```

Outputs links to other search engines results. This can be customized by passing
variables to it. ls_search_engines(‘before_title’, ‘after_title’).

In the code example in the FAQ, it outputs 5 related posts, 10 words per excerpt(
if excerpts are enabled), list item start before title, list item close after post
title, no content before and after posts, doesn’t show password protected posts 
and doesn’t show excerpts.

## Screenshots

[⌊A website showing related post when a visitor has searched for "landing sites 
screenshot"⌉⌊A website showing related post when a visitor has searched for "landing
sites screenshot"⌉[

A website showing related post when a visitor has searched for “landing sites screenshot”

## Installation

 1. Upload the folder `landing-sites` to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin
 3. Check FAQ to show the related posts list

## FAQ

  How to show the related posts list?

Add this code (in your index.php or somewhere else):

    ```
    <?php if (ls_getinfo('isref')) : ?>
       <h2><?php ls_getinfo('terms'); ?></h2>
       <p>You came here from <?php ls_getinfo('referrer'); ?> searching for <i><?php ls_getinfo('terms'); ?></i>. These posts might be of interest:</p>
       <ul>
         <?php ls_related(5, 10, '<li>', '</li>', '', '', false, false); ?>
       </ul>
    <?php endif; ?>
    ```

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Landing sites” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ SomeUser ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/devil1591/)

[Translate “Landing sites” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/landing-sites)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/landing-sites/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/landing-sites/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/landing-sites/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/landing-sites/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.5.2**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tags
 * [google](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)[referer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/referer/)
   [related](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/related/)[search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
   [seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/landing-sites/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ SomeUser ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/devil1591/)

## Support

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