Dahnielson

I have not yet been looking for a navigation link plugin for WordPress. But I imagine I can do one just as quickly myself rather than sift through a zillion plugins that all do the same thing in addition to suffering from bad cases of optionitis.

Right now in addition to the usual rel-stylesheet (for CSS) rel-alternate (for RSS feeds) and rel-pingback (for pingbacks) there are also a rel-start resource link in the header pointing to the home page of the blog.

Here are some additional relational resource links and types to consider.

• rel-home (actually rel-start is an alias for this one)
• rel-author (link to the author page, may be enabled on single post pages, apparently not an official type)
• rel-search (link to the search page, apparently not an official type)
• rel-copyright (the license or copyright page)
• rel-bookmark (the permalink for the post)

But not all may apply to the blog environment.

• rel-contents (table of content, n/a I’ve started to add ToC to some posts so this may apply)
• rel-index (like the index in a book, n/a)
• rel-glossary (like the glossary in a book, n/a)
• rel-appendix (like the appendix in a book, n/a)
• rel-help (a help page, n/a)

Some that I’m not quite sure how to use yet.

• rel-chapter
• rel-section
• rel-subsection

Navigational links may link to different pages depending on context.

• rel-previous
• rel-next
• rel-first (apparently not an official type)
• rel-last (apparently not an official type)
• rel-up (apparently not an offical type)

In case you are using Opera, enable the Navigation Toolbar and check them out on sites that contain relational resource links. It’s a great accessability enhancement.