Relevant Content is one of MANY contributed modules (see a comparison here) which attempts to provide a list of content a reader might be interested in. These related/relevant/similar content modules achieve a similar goal using very different methods.. Some (such as Similar) use MySQL to do content searching whereas Relevant Content uses Taxonomy to produce a "score" based on how many terms two compared nodes share. For example, you could be reading a node tagged A, B, C. If Relevant Content compared that node to another tagged B, C, D then it would assign a score of 2 as the terms B and C are shared.

Relevant Content provides output in 2 ways. The first is the traditional Block. You can define as many block as you like, each one containing search settings such as node type filtering and vocabulary filtering along with result set limits. Each block can then be assigned to a region and display can be controlled using the core block display settings (eg, only display for certain roles, or on specific pages (inclusive or exclusive)). The second, and new, way is the CCK Field. The field, once added, is read only (ie, when you add or edit a node there are no settings added to the form) and is configured in much the same way as a block. Below is a screenshot with the two field types highlighted in their positions.

Relevant Content Example

Comments

CrowDog1980’s picture

Thanks for the great Module! This is very useful!

I had a hard time finding the block configuration for this module. I was expecting to find it in blocks, or structure, or content types, or maybe a "configure" link on the modules page, but it wasn't there! Anyway, I just thought it might be helpful for future newcomers to this module to know that you have to add a block first through the "configuration" page in Drupal 7. Once you find it, it's simple to configure and then it is a block like any other (except that it has AWESOME node relative content in it!)

lav83’s picture

Hi
Can you please provide a little more detail that how you can add block using configuration page, I think it should be structure-blocks but after that how to use relevant content module
thanks

evabryn’s picture

Can someone please provide some more detail about how this module can be configured? I can't find it anywhere - not on the configuration page as suggested by CrowDog1980 either... hope someone can help as it looks like a great module.

Bertjuh’s picture

Hi, It's been a while but the way a block is configured is as follows:
For D7:

  1. Go to: Configuration >> Search and Metadata >> Relevant content. Set up your block
  2. Please note that you should check 'status'. Otherwise the block will not be enabled and it will not show up in the blocks listing page.
  3. Go to Structure > Blocks and you will find your block starting with 'Relevant Content: [and then the name you just gave it]
  4. Add it to a region and go check out your block on a page! (A page that is tagged with a taxonomy that you've just selected when setting up a block).
gChen07’s picture

How about the second way of displaying the relevant content. Can anybody provide step by step configuration. Please.. Great module :)