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Related Posts for WordPress

v3.0.1 · by Barry Kooij

The best WordPress plugin for related posts. Simple, flexible, powerful algorithm, and built-in caching. Fully set up with only 1 click!

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Related Posts for WordPress

Related Posts for WordPress offers you the ability to link related posts to each other with just 1 click!

Our installer will do all the hard work for you: simply activate the plugin, choose how many related posts every post gets and press Start. It runs in the background, so you can keep working while Related Posts for WordPress does the rest. Relating posts in WordPress has never been this easy!

Fully tested and working on PHP 8.0 and up (including PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 & 8.5) and WordPress 6.8 and up!

Related Posts for WordPress Premium

There’s an even better version of this plugin that comes with the following extra features:

  • Full Styling Control With Our Configurator
  • Cross Custom Post Type Support
  • Overwritable templates
  • Custom Taxonomy Support
  • Adjustable Weights
  • Older posts get your new posts as related posts, right away and on a schedule
  • See why posts are related
  • WordPress Network / Multisite support
  • Priority Email Support

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Related Posts for WordPress won’t lag your server!

We believe having related posts shouldn’t slow down your website. That’s why Related Posts for WordPress keeps its own tables and does the heavy lifting in the background and when you publish a post. Showing related posts only reads the links stored for a post, offering you quality related posts while keeping your website fast!

Automatically link posts to each other

After activating the plugin, its settings screen offers to analyze your posts and link them to each other based on what we think is related. This runs in the background, which means you can install Related Posts for WordPress on your website that has thousands of posts and create related connections on the fly, without any manual work!

Manually add, edit or remove

Everyone makes mistakes, so do we. That’s why you can easily modify all automatically created related posts. Simply navigate to the post that has incorrect related posts attached to it, select the correct related post and you’re done. Related posts you add by hand keep their place when the plugin links your posts again.

Shortcode

Related Posts for WordPress has a related post shortcode allowing you to display related posts on any position within your content.

Widget

Related Posts for WordPress has a related post widget allowing you to display related posts in any sidebar you’d like.

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