Title: Related Posts for new posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Related Posts for new posts

 *  Resolved [David Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogjunkie/)
 * (@blogjunkie)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-posts-for-new-posts/)
 * Hi Barry, when creating a new post does the plugin automatically create links
   to other posts? I have created a few posts with similar categories, tags and 
   even the same title as another post but the Related Posts metabox always reports“
   No related posts found”.
 * I saved the post as Draft, do I need to Publish before it will link the posts?
   Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-for-wp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-for-wp/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-posts-for-new-posts/#post-5468619)
 * You are correct. Related posts are only linked when the post status is set to
   publish.
 *  Thread Starter [David Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogjunkie/)
 * (@blogjunkie)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-posts-for-new-posts/#post-5468620)
 * Thanks Barry. A follow up question – if my client is a fussy-pot and manually
   links the posts at the Draft stage, will they be replaced with new posts when
   it is published?
 *  Plugin Author [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-posts-for-new-posts/#post-5468621)
 * That should work. Please note that in the free version manually created links
   will be lost when you (re)run the installation wizard.
 *  Thread Starter [David Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogjunkie/)
 * (@blogjunkie)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-posts-for-new-posts/#post-5468627)
 * I tested it and if you had manually linked posts while in Draft, the plugin will
   add more linked posts when you Publish.
 * Thanks for a useful plugin Barry, I will get the Pro version if I ever need it
   🙂

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 * Last reply from: [David Wang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogjunkie/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-posts-for-new-posts/#post-5468627)
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