How To Add Next-Prev Posts Links With Thumbnails And Other Stuff?

Just about every WordPress topic you’ll run over has help for heading off to the previous or next post. That is fine and best, however in WordPress 2.9 we got the capacity to have post thumbnails. Wouldn’t it be extraordinary to utilize thumbnails rather than or nearby our post titles? The answer is yes, it would. So I set out on a trip to make sense of how to add this usefulness to your subject, and have posted the results underneath. First and foremost for general WordPress clients, and afterward for Thesis clients.

Now if you are making your own WordPress theme then you must have to add goood features that are easy to add and will make your theme completely different. Showing only Next-Prev posts title is not catiching for readers to read those posts but if you will let him to view your attractive image then they must go to read that so from this you can get good SEO results too. Now without any more preface, just move and get your code to make your theme more beautiful.

Features:

1.) Pure PHP code.
2.) Have to edit single.php file only.
3.) Add pagination on your all single post page.
4.) Display Text, Title, Thumb, Date, there.
5.) Easy to use and fully customizable.

How To Add Next-Prev Posts Links With Thumbnails And Other Stuff?

Step 1:) Copy the below code and Paste in in your Single Page(single.php) file.

<div id="post-nav">
    <?php $prevPost = get_previous_post(true);
        if($prevPost) {
            $args = array(
                'posts_per_page' => 1,
                'include' => $prevPost->ID
            );
            $prevPost = get_posts($args);
            foreach ($prevPost as $post) {
                setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
        <div class="post-previous">
            <a class="previous" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">&laquo; Previous Story</a>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?></a>
            <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
            <small><?php the_date('F j, Y'); ?></small>
        </div>
    <?php
                wp_reset_postdata();
            } //end foreach
        } // end if

        $nextPost = get_next_post(true);
        if($nextPost) {
            $args = array(
                'posts_per_page' => 1,
                'include' => $nextPost->ID
            );
            $nextPost = get_posts($args);
            foreach ($nextPost as $post) {
                setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
        <div class="post-next">
            <a class="next" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Next Story &raquo;</a>
            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?></a>
            <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
            <small><?php the_date('F j, Y'); ?></strong>
        </div>
    <?php
                wp_reset_postdata();
            } //end foreach
        } // end if
    ?>
</div>

Customization:

You can see more stuff from next post. Now you just have to add some CSS on it only. Rest all is done.

Theme Files Editing Warning:

Keep in mind that every code that you will add in your themes files will be removed when you will change the theme. So after changing your theme, you have to follow this article again and you will get everything back same as it is now.

Last Words:

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