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When displaying a single post, you might want to show links to the previous and next posts in the same category.
That’s fine; WordPress let’s you do this with <code>previous_post_link()</code> and <code>next_post_link()</code>.
But what if that post is in multiple categories?
What if the user came to that post from a tag page or from an author page? Wouldn’t it make more sense to display previous / next posts from that particular set?
Well, you can do this with a similar pair of functions, provided by this plugin: <code>previous_post_smart()</code> and <code>next_post_smart()</code>.
Here’s how it works:
Whenever a visitor goes to an archive page (category, tag, date, author, search etc.), the plugin notes which archive it is in a browser cookie.
Then, if the visitor goes to a single post from that archive page, the plugin generates the prev / next links based on the information in the cookie.
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Smarter Navigation

I have been looking into code this functionality myself but have been not able to make it work properly than i came across this plugin and it worked liked a charm on just installing it.



Worked like a charm

Generates more specific previous / next post links based on referrer.

Paul Ryan

Description: Widget that provides “Parent | Previous | Next” buttons to navigate between pages at the same hierarchy level (and up to the parent page). You can modify the settings to choose the words you want to use. To enable, first activate the plugin, then add the widget to a sidebar in the Widgets settings page.
View or contribute to the plugin source on github: <a href="https://github.com/uhm-coe/pager-widget" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/uhm-coe/pager-widget</a>

Pager Widget

Prints "Parent | Previous | Next" links to navigate between pages at the same level in the page hierarchy (and up to the parent page).

Smarter Navigation vs Pager Widget