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+I've been recently using a template this
+
+<pre>
+----
+Related posts:
+
+[[\!inline pages="blog/posts/*
+        and !blog/posts/*/*
+        and !Discussion
+        and !tagged(draft)
+        and <TMPL_VAR raw_tagged>"
+        archive="yes"
+        quick="yes"
+        show="5"]]
+</pre>
+
+Which I then call by doing this at the end of my blog posts on my ikiwiki install
+
+<pre>
+[[\!tag software linux]]
+[[\!template id=related tagged="tagged(software) or tagged(linux)"]]
+</pre>
+
+It somewhat works, I was wondering if anyone else has tried to do something like the above to get "related posts" based on tags. The way that I have done it isn't very clever as it only links to the last 5 most recently posted items based on my parameters. Is it possible to "randomly" select a bunch of links from a set of user defined pagespecs?
+
+I know that the [[backlinks]] plugin exists for this sort of stuff (related links), it just lacks some user configuration options.