Some of these new features WordPress has been adding lately and not telling me about are getting REALLY FREAKING ANNOYING.
Last week I noticed a bulleted list named “Possibly Related Posts”at the bottom of some of my posts.
Usually linked one or two to my other posts (usually not related to anything in that post) and links three or four other random posts on other random blogs, also usually not actually related and sometimes outright ridiculous.
I had nothing to do with it, couldn’t make it go away and thought I’d been hacked or something. I even changed my password and vowed to investigate once finals were over.
Today I noticed it says “Possibly Related Posts (automatically generated)”. That’s when I figured it was a WordPress thing. So I did a little research and:
TO MAKE STUPID FEATURE GO AWAY
- Go to WordPress Dashboard
- Go to Design > Extras
- Click “Hide related links on this blog, which means this blog won’t show up on other’s blogs or get traffic that way”
- Click save
Sorry, WordPress, but if I want to link a post about Anne Coulter’s scrotum or someone’s very interesting day shopping for minivans, I’ll do it myself. I like semblances of control and I’m a big girl now anyway. I don’t need your help.
Just figured I’d pass along the info.
47 responses so far ↓
docweasel // April 30, 2008 at 8:54 am |
THANK YOU! At first I was getting these weird trackbacks, and I followed and I was like, oh cool they are forcing these people to link my vulgar posts, nicely done! Then they started appearing on my page. This was not so good. Thanks for the solution, I searched my entire dash looking for it until I had to resort to Google, and there was the answer. And you were the only one addressing it, so long may you prosper.
-d
docweasel // April 30, 2008 at 8:56 am |
One other note, it seems if you disable it, you won’t get linked that way either, which I can live with, but other users may want to be aware of that fact.
How to disable and remove automatically generated possibly related links from Wordpress blogs « docweaselblog // April 30, 2008 at 7:09 pm |
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Agni // May 8, 2008 at 6:04 am |
Thank you! I was trying to do this by my self, and finally gave up and searched on Google: thus the visit to your site. Cheers!
jpschock // May 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm |
Thank you much. Good information.
retoxicate // May 19, 2008 at 8:03 pm |
Appreciate the information. Still I am tempted to post foul things that possible relate to other posts, I have a lot of time on my hands.
poxus // May 27, 2008 at 6:02 am |
Perfect!
I started posting and saw this thing and thought “WTF”
alicia in Hawaii // June 4, 2008 at 7:38 pm |
Thank you thank you thank you! I just had this irritating thing show up and am so happy to have found your article. Now, I too can get rid of the stupid feature. lol smiles, alicia in Hawaii, http://www.curiosities808.wordpress.com
marthame // June 5, 2008 at 11:01 am |
Gratitude. Again, Google search yields results for troubleshooting.
petemontgomery // August 9, 2008 at 6:12 pm |
Thanks,
redplasticmonkey // August 14, 2008 at 11:19 am |
OMG – thanks for that. So annoying, and totally non-intuitive process to turn off
snipershibito // October 13, 2008 at 7:03 am |
thank you so much.
Suresh // December 14, 2008 at 1:54 am |
Hi Dear,
You are terrific. That thing has gone from my blog, thanks to you.
Shelling Ford // January 24, 2009 at 7:26 am |
Thanx boss… Very helpfull,, n_n
Raef // February 5, 2009 at 8:38 pm |
OMG, thank you so much – that was really annoying..
danielsteenblik // February 13, 2009 at 4:51 pm |
Did they get rid of this option? Can’t find
* Go to Design > Extras
Argh! I hate these things!
danielsteenblik // February 13, 2009 at 4:54 pm |
Sorry, found it: is now under “Appearance”/Extras
Why do they think this is a good thing?
a // February 13, 2009 at 5:06 pm |
you made my day!!
Yarra Mates // March 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm |
Thanks, I was about to get aggravated but then I saw this page. Cheers.
chuckebyrdwallart // March 21, 2009 at 6:48 am |
Thanks for posting this, I have been going nuts (ok, I was already nuts) trying to figure out how to get rid of this thing. All it did was link my competition to every post I made about my vinyl wall art. NOT a very good thing.
Thanks again
Chuck
Chuck-E-Byrd Wall Art
myelvin // April 8, 2009 at 11:49 am |
Ya.me 2
annekitzman // April 11, 2009 at 9:45 am |
Thank you so much! I looked all over for something that said “Remove Possibly Related Links” and of course, they would not make it that simple, I could not find it! So I googled my question and found your page. Hey, we want people to stay on our blog, not wander away to some unrelated site! Thanks again, I found it and … it’s gone!
boditree // May 14, 2009 at 6:22 am |
You are awesome! Thanks for the helpful post.
Holt // May 26, 2009 at 4:55 pm |
Bless you. That’s possibly the most annoying thing ever.
sue94ag // June 17, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
Thank you!! I had the same horrified reaction — what the eff are these random, useless links? I spend time making my post relevant and my design clean, and then these ugly things pop up.
Very grateful to you for posting this!!
dikblog // June 18, 2009 at 10:29 pm |
Thank you very much. This has been very helpful. My mom logged into my blog and started asking me why my posts were related to porn. Really good times…
Anto // June 30, 2009 at 2:55 am |
Thank you Lindy. This is annoying feature.
Sarah // July 21, 2009 at 3:28 pm |
How can you get this done in WordPress 2.8 I am not seeing what you guys mentioned under DashBoard
Owen // July 25, 2009 at 10:44 pm |
Thanks for this, I couldn’t find it
Denis Hiller // August 3, 2009 at 8:43 pm |
Thank you very much!
massingfamily // August 4, 2009 at 8:07 am |
Yay! I googled how to fix this once I noticed it on my blog too, and found your solution! THANK YOU!
mila // August 4, 2009 at 5:18 pm |
Thank you!! Excellent post
lightofhis // August 10, 2009 at 10:59 am |
thank you, thank you!
iruvienne // August 14, 2009 at 5:40 pm |
Rofl, thank you very much! I was having the same annoying problem… wow, I would never guess that it would be in the Extras section =)
quirkyfashion // August 18, 2009 at 2:34 am |
Thanks a million! I’ve just started my new blog and wrote and aerticle about hats when I noticed I have a related link about getting back into shape after childbirth!
So thans again
writerleeanne // August 21, 2009 at 9:22 am |
THANK YOU!!!
janstewart06 // August 23, 2009 at 1:46 pm |
Thank you also!!
bobbyboydell // August 25, 2009 at 4:18 pm |
Thanks!!! how many thanks does that make!!
hibethany // September 2, 2009 at 6:38 am |
THANK YOU! This has been making me crazy, too.
Michael Riley // September 5, 2009 at 7:55 pm |
I’ll add my thank you to the many others on this list. You are well deserving of being the first link on google for this search.
rockness08 // September 6, 2009 at 12:52 am |
Thanks much! We were going nuts!
Sally // September 12, 2009 at 5:27 pm |
Thank you!
Jed Share // September 15, 2009 at 10:00 pm |
Thank You Thank You!!!
anyonecanbelean // September 23, 2009 at 8:30 am |
In the newest version of wordpress, go to:
1. My dashboard
2. Appearance
3. Extras (under “options” at the top of the page)
Thanks!
Neil Keefe // October 2, 2009 at 8:28 am |
Good job. Found this via Google. Why they would have this on by default is a mystery.
Cameron Gaskarth // October 16, 2009 at 10:02 am |
Wow, I felt like such a tool trying to find out how to get rid of this. Thanks a bunch.
akbar pribadi // November 5, 2009 at 7:14 am |
thank you