About the plugin

Aha Prev Next is a lightweight post navigation plugin for WordPress. It displays beautiful, responsive navigation links connecting the current post to the previous and next entries, encouraging visitors to browse more content and reducing bounce rate.

It includes two distinct inline layout styles (Before Content and After Content) and integrates directly with WooCommerce product page hooks. It also supports featured image thumbnails, product price display, title truncation, custom background and text colors, and is fully responsive.

Installation

Via WordPress admin

1. Go to Plugins → Add new.
2. Search for Aha Prev Next (or upload the plugin ZIP file).
3. Click Install now, then Activate.

Via FTP

1. Unzip the plugin ZIP file on your computer.
2. Connect to your server via FTP and go to wp-content/plugins.
3. Upload the plugin folder (e.g. aha-prev-next) into wp-content/plugins.
4. In the WordPress admin, go to Plugins and activate Aha Prev Next.

Configuration (tabs)

After activating the plugin, go to Aha Prev Next in your WordPress admin sidebar. The settings page is divided into the following tabs:

General

• Enable Prev/Next navigation – Check to globally activate previous/next navigation on your site.

Display

• Enabled post types – Choose which post types (e.g. Posts, Pages) will display the navigation cards. You can extend this to custom post types using developer filters.
• Position – Select the layout position for standard post types:
  • Before content – Renders the cards inline at the beginning of your post.
  • After content (recommended) – Renders the cards inline at the end of your post.
• WooCommerce product position – Select where the navigation links render on single product pages. Options include before or after the product content, or using standard WooCommerce hooks (such as below product details, or after description tabs) to prevent them from getting stuck inside tabs.

Style

• Thumbnail – Enable this option to show the post's featured image inside the navigation card.
• Title length – Define the maximum character limit for post titles to prevent cards from overflowing.
• Colors – Customize the card design to fit your theme:
  • Card background – Color of the card container background.
  • Title color – Color of the post title, arrows, and product price text.
  • Subtitle color – Color of the "Previous" and "Next" header labels.

Uninstall

• Remove all plugin data when the plugin is deleted – Enable this checkbox if you want to completely erase all plugin settings from the database when you click "Delete" on the WordPress Plugins screen.

Shortcode [aha_prev_next]

Aha Prev Next displays navigation automatically on your selected post types. However, if you want to manually insert the cards in a specific position, block template, or widget area, you can use the shortcode.

Attribute reference

Quick examples

• Default layout: [aha_prev_next]
• Prepend navigation before content: [aha_prev_next position="above"]
• Append navigation without thumbnails: [aha_prev_next position="below" show_thumbnail="0"]

Hooks & Filters

Aha Prev Next is designed to be developer-friendly. You can use these hooks and filters inside your theme's functions.php or custom plugins to extend the default behavior.

Filters

Actions

Example: Register custom post type 'portfolio'

add_filter( 'aha_prev_next_allowed_post_types', function( $post_types ) {
    $post_types[] = 'portfolio';
    return $post_types;
} );

Example: Restrict navigation to the same category

add_filter( 'aha_prev_next_adjacent_ids', function( $ids, $post_id ) {
    // Custom logic to retrieve adjacent posts within the same category
    $prev_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', true, 'category' );
    $next_post = get_adjacent_post( true, '', false, 'category' );

    $ids['prev'] = $prev_post ? $prev_post->ID : 0;
    $ids['next'] = $next_post ? $next_post->ID : 0;

    return $ids;
}, 10, 2 );

Video – Setup and demo

Video walkthrough showing how to configure layouts, custom colors, and verify the frontend result.