I saw a guy ask this question so thought it wise to bring it here and he says:

I'm making a blog with couchcms. So I am trying to figure out how to create a section below every blog post on my website with 3 related posts.

Thanks in advance.

[KK]

The simplest way would be by using 'relations' - please see http://docs.couchcms.com/concepts/relationships.html

While all the examples in the link above use two templates to create the relations, there is no problem in relating a template to *itself*. So, suppose your template is 'blog.php', you may add an editable region to it this way -

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<cms:editable type='relation' name='related_posts' masterpage='blog.php' />

As you can see, we are relating blog.php to blog.php. So, while editing a post you'll see a list of all other posts.
You can manually select which of the posts are related to the current post being edited.

On the front-end, in the page_view, use <cms:related_pages> (as show in the link above) to output the posts related to the page being displayed.

Hope it helps.

KK, I am very much impressed with how swift you reply to problems and the patience with which you answer them. Will post your response to Stack Overflow where I found the question.

I have a personal question too, on blog page-view I have a next and previous buttons that loops through all blog posts. How do i make these buttons show the title of the next or previous blog posts so users know what they are about to read next. Thank you

[KK]

Thank you for the kind words

Replying to your query -

on blog page-view I have a next and previous buttons that loops through all blog posts. How do i make these buttons show the title of the next or previous blog posts so users know what they are about to read next

The easiest way to do so for a blog (because here posts are sorted by publish_date) would be as explained in the following thread -
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21

You can find more ways here -
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7087

Hope it helps.

I want the highlighted text in the image attached below to be the "Title of the next blog item".

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I used the code below but it rather outputs the "Title" of the current post instead of the next

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<cms:set page_name=k_page_title />

This is how I used it in my code

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<cms:set page_name=k_page_title />
             <cms:php>
                  global $CTX;
                  $page_ids = explode( ",", "<cms:pages ids_only='1' />" );
                  $cur_page_id = "<cms:show k_page_id />";
                 $pos = array_search( $cur_page_id, $page_ids );
                  if( $pos!==FALSE ){
                  if( $pos>0 ){
                     // Prev page id
                     $prev_page_id = $page_ids[$pos-1];
                     $CTX->set( 'prev_page_id', $prev_page_id, 'global' );
                  }
                  if( $pos<count($page_ids)-1 ){
                     // Next page id
                     $next_page_id = $page_ids[$pos+1];
                    $CTX->set( 'next_page_id', $next_page_id, 'global' );
                  }
                  }
            </cms:php>
                       <div class="comments_section">
                        <cms:if prev_page_id >
                           <cms:pages id=prev_page_id skip_custom_fields='1'>
                         <div class="prev-button"><a class="ajax-link" href="<cms:show k_page_link />">Next Blog</a> | <cms:show page_name /></div>
                              </cms:pages>
   </cms:if>

Hi KK, never mind. I found a solution. The problem was from my side but I found it. Thank you very much

KK, how do I automatically list related posts instead of maually selecting them inside the admin page? Thank you