Title: Automating
Last modified: January 7, 2022
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# Automating
* Resolved [shmickmick2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shmickmick2016/)
* (@shmickmick2016)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/)
* Hi there, to put “Previous Post” “Random Post” “Next Post” buttons at the bottom
of the sample post I included, I have manually added the code below.
* [https://www.bigbreathathome.com/burden-of-speaking-up/](https://www.bigbreathathome.com/burden-of-speaking-up/)
* ———-
* ```
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* —–
* It’s exactly how I want it to look – fantastic!
* However, I need to add the slug of that specific url to make the “prev” and “
next” parameters work. In that case, I need to manually put it in the code at
the bottom of every post I have ever written (100+) and will ever write.
* Is there any way to have that same effect happen automatically, either by adding
some universal code somewhere without having to manually add into each singular
post written? Or so I don’t have to change each individual slug?
* Thanks for a great plugin, by the way!
* The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fautomating%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
to see the link]_
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* [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
* (@airdrummer)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15231033)
* usually your theme’s templates contain next/previous nav links…so mai-lifestyle-
pro doesn’t?
* [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
* (@airdrummer)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15232028)
* sorry i just realized that all u need is
* ```
href="?redirect_to=prev"
href="?redirect_to=random"
href="?redirect_to=next"
```
* Thread Starter [shmickmick2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shmickmick2016/)
* (@shmickmick2016)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15232588)
* I would prefer to use your plugin rather than the theme default so as to keep
uniformity.
* I first tried that code but it wasn’t working like it should — when I clicked
on the “prev” link it redirected to a specific random page (the same page no
matter which post) and the “next” link redirected to the blog home page every
time.
* You can see here where I put the above code in just for this following post —
[https://www.bigbreathathome.com/no-changes-in-strangers/](https://www.bigbreathathome.com/no-changes-in-strangers/)
* Any ideas?
* [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
* (@airdrummer)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15233200)
* no, u hard-coded the absolute url: `href="https://www.bigbreathathome.com/?redirect_to
=prev"`
so of course it didn’t do what u want…u need the relative url: `href
="?redirect_to=prev"`
* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2005079/absolute-vs-relative-urls](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2005079/absolute-vs-relative-urls)
* ps: i’m not the plugin’s author, just a grateful user:-)
* Thread Starter [shmickmick2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shmickmick2016/)
* (@shmickmick2016)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15233301)
* Fucking brilliant! Thanks very much for the clarification. Sorry, I’m more of
an amateur 🙂
* [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
* (@airdrummer)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15233824)
* url101…glad2b of service;-)
* Plugin Author [Christoph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camthor/)
* (@camthor)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15235079)
* Thank you, [@airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/), for
your great support!
* [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/)
* (@airdrummer)
* [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automating/#post-15236301)
* u r most welcome, [@camthor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/camthor/)!-)
* [@shmickmick2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shmickmick2016/), u should
add that boilerplate to the theme’s templates so u don’t have to manually code
it into every page…that’s why we invented computers, no?-) study up:
[https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/)
[https://codex.wordpress.org/Next_and_Previous_Links](https://codex.wordpress.org/Next_and_Previous_Links)
* ” add the code to your theme’s page template instead: “
- This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by [airdrummer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airdrummer/).
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