James Kemp

<p>This plugin allows you to list any number of related posts from the same category as the current post. You can also randomise these results. It is very lightweight, at only 3KB.</p>
<p>There are a number of options available:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose the number of Posts to show</li>
<li>Choose whether it displays these posts randomly, or in order specified by you.</li>
<li>Choose whether to display a title, what tags to use, and what text should be displayed (e.g. H3)</li>
<li>Choose a class for the main UL</li>
</ul>
<p>To display the random related posts in its simplest form, simply place the following code in your single.php file – <code><?php relatedPosts(); ?></code>.</p>
<p>To edit the options availble, use the following codes:</p>
<pre><code><?php relatedPosts(
    $ppp = 4, 
    $rand = true, 
    $rPinctitle = true, 
    $rPtitletag = 'h3', 
    $rPtitle = 'Related Posts', 
    $rPulclass = 'related_posts',
    $orderby = 'title', 
    $order = 'ASC'
); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Where:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>$ppp</strong> = Number of posts to display (Any integer allowed)</li>
<li><strong>$rand</strong> = sets the display to random (true/false)</li>
<li><strong>$rPinctitle</strong> = Displays the title (true/false)</li>
<li><strong>$rPtitletag</strong> = The type of tag to wrap the title in (Default h3, but it can be any valid HTML tag)</li>
<li><strong>$rPtitle</strong> = The title to be displayed (This can be any text value)</li>
<li><strong>$rPulclass</strong> = This sets the class of the ul (This can be any text value)</li>
<li><strong>$rPexcerpt</strong> = Displays the post excerpt (true/false)</li>
<li><strong>$orderby</strong> = This allows you to order the posts by certain parameters (title/author/date/modified/menu_order/parent/ID/none/comment_count) <strong>If you want to choose the order of your posts, be sure to set $rand to false</strong></li>
<li><strong>$order</strong> = This can either be Ascending or Descending (ASC/DESC)</li>
</ul>


Random Related Posts Based on Category

This plugin allows you to list any number of related posts from the same category as the current post. You can also randomise these results.

alphasis

<p>This Plugin will display the related posts list via categories.<br />
It can automatically display the related posts list after the content of any single post of selected post types by options.<br />
There are many options for the display, order, exclusion and post-type selection.<br />
This plugin works when viewing a post of selected post types by options.<br />
This plugin requires jQuery 1.6 or higher.</p>
<h4>Official Page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin’s Official Page : <a href="http://alphasis.info/developments/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-via-categories/" title="Plugin's Official Page in English" rel="nofollow ugc">English</a> / <a href="http://alphasis.info/kaihatu/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-via-categories/" title="Plugin's Official Page in Japanese" rel="nofollow ugc">Japanese</a></li>
<li>Author’s Website : <a href="http://alphasis.info/" title="alphasis.info" rel="nofollow ugc">alphasis.info</a> (Japanese) » <a href="http://alphasis.info/developments/wordpress-plugins/" title="WordPress Plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugins</a> (English)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Related Posts via Categories – Options</h4>
<p>‘Settings’ » ‘Related Posts via Categories’</p>
<h4>Display</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto display
<ul>
<li>This option automatically displays related posts after the content on the single post page.</li>
<li>If this option is off, you will need to manually insert <code>display_related_posts_via_categories()</code> into your theme files.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Maximum number of related posts
<ul>
<li>If you do not enter anything: 10</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Related posts title
<ul>
<li>For example: Related Posts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before related posts title and related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><div id="related-posts-via-categories"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After related posts title and related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></div></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before related posts title
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><h2 id="related-posts-via-categories-title"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After related posts title
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></h2></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><ul id="related-posts-via-categories-list"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></ul></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before each related post
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><li class="related-posts-via-categories-item"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After each related post
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></li></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Order</h4>
<ul>
<li>Order By
<ul>
<li>Related Scores : High  ( Speedy ) </li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Published : New ( Default setting )</li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Published : Old</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Published : New</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Published : Old</li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Modified : New</li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Modified : Old</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Modified : New</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Modified : Old</li>
<li>Date Published : New</li>
<li>Date Published : Old</li>
<li>Date Modified : New</li>
<li>Date Modified : Old</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Exclude</h4>
<ul>
<li>Exclude (Posts)
<ul>
<li>The IDs of any posts you want to exclude, separated by commas.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Exclude (Categories)
<ul>
<li>Select checkboxes of any categories you want to exclude.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Post types</h4>
<ul>
<li>Select checkboxes of any post types you want to include in the list of Related Posts and display the list.</li>
<li>Displays checkboxes of them when there is any custom post types.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>Japanese (ja) – <a href="http://alphasis.info/" title="alphasis.info" rel="nofollow ugc">alphasis</a> (plugin author)</li>
<li>Persian (fa_IR) – <a href="http://qanal.ir/" title="Omid Sheerkavand" rel="nofollow ugc">Omid Sheerkavand</a></li>
<li>Armenian (hy_AM) – <a href="http://ablog.gratun.am" title="Artak Kolyan" rel="nofollow ugc">Artak Kolyan</a></li>
<li>Current release supports English, Persian, Armenian and Japanese.</li>
</ul>


Random Related Posts Based on Category vs Related Posts via Categories