{"id":534,"date":"2009-02-19T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanseodesign.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2009-02-19T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T19:19:46","slug":"next-previous-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanseodesign.com\/wordpress\/next-previous-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Find The WordPress Next And Previous Post Links Useful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a show of hands or better yet a show of comments, do you find the next post and previous post navigation in WordPress useful? It&#8217;s there by default and many blogs including this one keep it, but how often do you actually click to see the next or previous post?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nJust to make sure we&#8217;re talking about the same thing here&#8217;s an image of what I&#8217;m talking about with the two links circled:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanseodesign.com\/blog\/images\/post-header.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the typical post heading on this blog\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking for myself I&#8217;ve certainly clicked them on posts before, but I realize I don&#8217;t do it all that often and lately I&#8217;ve been removing them from many of the themes I&#8217;ve designed.<\/p>\n<p>Because post titles can become quite long the links themselves can become quite long, which looks a bit messy to me. That&#8217;s easily fixed, but the main question is how useful you find the links.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t mind I&#8217;d appreciate a few thoughts. Leave a comment below. 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