7 Best WordPress Related Posts Plugin

Abhinay Kumar
Plugins
June 21, 2022

A must-have necessity for bloggers and publishers is displaying content related to the content user is currently viewing.This helps in retaining visitors to your site for a longer duration.It also helps in decreasing bounce rate and increasing the CTR of related posts.Related posts help the reader in coming across content related to the content they are reading.This also helps the publishers in establishing an identity in the related field.The easiest way to do this is through a related post plugin. There are several related posts plugins in WordPress.Let us see some of the best-related posts plugin in WordPress.

1. YARPP(Yet Another Related Posts Plugin)

YARPP is a popular and widely used related posts plugin.It allows you to display related posts considering Post titles, taxonomy, content, and custom taxonomies.You can select a template from their library or create a custom one using it.It has customized and well-optimized code which brings in speed and good performance.Related posts can be displayed anywhere on the site using it. You can select the place to displaythese from its settings.It supports WooCommerce,bbPress,custom post types,custom taxonomy,Multisite,thumbnails,shortcode.It has YARPP functions and filters to further customize it. It also has support for blocks level editing.They assure good support and regular updates. It has got a very good rating with over 100k active installations.

2. Contextual Related Posts

Contextual Related Post or CRP is a plugin to display related posts.It provides WordPress block-level editing options which make it easy to use.Customization can be done based on text and style.Their default style can be edited with custom CSS of your own.You can choose from thumbnails style display or text style display.It offers support for custom posttypes, shortcode, taxonomy.You can add the related post created in CRP to the WordPress widget area so you can put it in any area of your blog.Also, you can select exclusions to selectively display your desired related posts only.Image sizes can be reset from the settings section of CRP.Related Posts are automatically cached as users browse through your site.Related Posts can be filtered based on Post title or content or both.You can choose to display excerpts and their length to display can be selected.It has 70K active installations and has a very good rating.

3. Related Posts for WordPress

Related Posts for WordPress is a plugin that displays related posts. It has an installation wizard which automatically links your related posts. Also, you can link and unlink manually.so if some post has been automatically linked and you want to unlink it, it can be done manually. Similarly, if some post is related to a post that has not been linked, you can link it manually. You can append the related post to any of your posts or pages or products through their widget. Also, you can use the shortcode to display it anywhere you like. It supports default taxonomy and tags as well as a custom taxonomy. It has support for different languages and can identify them and create related posts.it is a free as well as paid version. You get more control of the settings application in the paid version. The personal version is priced at 5.99 USD per month valid for 1 website. It has over 40k active installations with a very good rating.

4. Related Post

Related Post is a plugin to display related posts on your site in a single post, page, archive page. It allows you to display related posts under excerpt in archive pages. You can display related posts in the form of popups. These popups can be customized to display after a certain time or scroll. It allows you to display in different layouts like list, grid, etc. You can embed a shortcode to display it anywhere on your site. You can do manual post-selection. It also tracks the click on your recent posts and presents you with stats as to which related postis performing well. It has 5k active installations and a good rating by the majority of users.

5. Inline Related Posts

Inline-related posts let you put related posts anywhere inline in the post content.It is smartly designed that inserts related posts in your content without breaking it.All of this is done automatically. It is based on the idea users can change mid-waythrough your post so it places your related content at important touchpoints through its smartly designed algorithm.It helps in increasing page views and overall visitors’ time on your website.It has got 70K active installations and a good rating by users.

6. Related Posts by Taxonomy

Related Posts by Taxonomy displays related posts by category and post types.The search for the related post can be filtered based on date, number, or post meta.You can include or exclude certain posts. Custom HTML templates can be used to design the related posts.It supports widgets and shortcodes. It’s lightweight and has no impact on speed.It has 20K+ active installations and has a good rating.

7. Custom Related Posts

Custom Related Posts is a plugin with minimal functionality and minimal overhead to display your related posts. You can link related posts through a widget, shortcode, or using the block(Gutenberg)editor. You can specifythe posts that are linked and create a two-way link. Also, you can specify the image size to display. It does not impact the speed of your site with minimal functionality and achieving the purpose of displaying related posts. It is a very good start of the plugin and has a good review to support its functionality. Please do me let me know how are you displaying related posts on your blog in the comments section below. Please also see a related Post to display Related Post using Elementor.