keesiemeijer

Quickly increase your readers’ engagement by adding related posts in the sidebar or after post content with a widget or shortcode.
Posts with the most terms in common will display at the top!
This plugin is capable of finding related posts in multiple taxonomies and post types. Include or exclude terms from the search for related posts. Change the look and feel by using your own templates in a (child) theme.
<a href="http://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a>
Plugin features:
<ul>
<li>Widget and Shortcode.</li>
<li>Display related posts as post thumbnails, links, excerpts or full posts.</li>
<li>Small Footprint. Doesn’t slow down your site!</li>
<li>Automatic display of related posts after the post content.</li>
<li>Exclude or include terms and posts.</li>
<li>Search for related posts in single or multiple taxonomies and post types.</li>
<li>Limit the search for related posts by date, number or post meta.</li>
<li>Use your own HTML templates for display of the related posts.</li>
<li>Extensive <a href="http://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a>.</li>
<li>Follows WordPress coding standards and plugin best practices.</li>
<li>Highly Adjustable!</li>
</ul>
For the following features you need to be somewhat familiar with WordPress <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/" rel="nofollow ugc">hooks</a>. The <a href="http://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> has many examples to help you along.
Extended features:
<ul>
<li>Use a persistent cache for the related posts query. (opt-in feature)</li>
<li>Use the WordPress REST API to get related posts. (opt-in feature)</li>
<li>Load related posts after the whole page has loaded (with Ajax). (opt-in feature)</li>
<li>Use plugin functions in your theme templates to display related posts yourself.</li>
<li>Use Filters to change the default behavior of the plugin. </li>
</ul>
Follow this plugin on <a href="https://github.com/keesiemeijer/related-posts-by-taxonomy" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. 
Search the <a href="https://keesiemeijer.github.io/related-posts-by-taxonomy" rel="nofollow ugc">code reference</a>
See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-posts-by-taxonomy/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a> to have related posts automatically display after the post content without using the shortcode or widget.
Default usage for the shortcode is:
<pre><code>[related_posts_by_tax]
</code></pre>
Attributes for the shortcode are:
<ul>
<li><code>post_id</code></li>
<li><code>taxonomies</code></li>
<li><code>post_types</code></li>
<li><code>posts_per_page</code></li>
<li><code>order</code></li>
<li><code>orderby</code></li>
<li><code>before_shortcode</code></li>
<li><code>after_shortcode</code></li>
<li><code>title</code></li>
<li><code>show_date</code></li>
<li><code>before_title</code></li>
<li><code>after_title</code></li>
<li><code>include_terms</code></li>
<li><code>include_parents</code></li>
<li><code>include_children</code></li>
<li><code>exclude_terms</code></li>
<li><code>exclude_posts</code></li>
<li><code>format</code></li>
<li><code>gallery_format</code></li>
<li><code>image_size</code></li>
<li><code>columns</code></li>
<li><code>caption</code></li>
<li><code>link_caption</code></li>
<li><code>limit_posts</code></li>
<li><code>limit_month</code></li>
<li><code>meta_key</code></li>
<li><code>meta_value</code></li>
<li><code>meta_compare</code></li>
<li><code>meta_type</code></li>
<li><code>public_only</code></li>
<li><code>include_self</code></li>
<li><code>post_class</code></li>
</ul>
Example to show 10 related posts instead of the default 5.
<pre><code>[related_posts_by_tax posts_per_page="10"]
</code></pre>
See the <a href="https://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/#shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> for more information about these attributes.
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dutch </li>
<li>French (by <a href="http://www.artisanathai.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">Annie Stasse</a>) </li>
<li>Spanish (by <a href="http://www.ludobooks.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ludobooks – Cuentos personalizados</a>) </li>
<li>Catalan (by <a href="http://www.ludobooks.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ludobooks – Cuentos personalizados</a>) </li>
<li>Polish (by <a href="http://rekolekcje.net.pl" rel="nofollow ugc">koda0601</a>)</li>
</ul>

My goodness!

Display a list of related posts on your site based on the most terms in common. Supports thumbnails, shortcodes, a widget and more.

Barry Kooij

Never5

<h4>Post Connector</h4>
In WordPress, post types are often related, for instance, you might want to relate recipes to ingredients. But to do so, you’d normally have to use a custom taxonomy. With Post Connector, you can directly relate post types to post types, foregoing all the hassle of having to create loads of custom taxonomies and just allowing you to do what you really want to do.
<blockquote>
Premium features
The Pro version of the plugin comes with the following features:
<ul>
<li>Sortable post connections</li>
<li>Backwards linking (parent to child AND child to parent)</li>
<li>A developer friendly API</li>
<li>Priority support</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.post-connector.com/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-link" rel="nofollow ugc">More information</a> | <a href="https://www.post-connector.com/go-pro/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade now >></a>
</blockquote>
<h4>No coding required</h4>
Creating links, linking posts and displaying posts in Post Connector can all be done without coding. Stuff you used to need a developer for can now “just” be done by clicking around in your WordPress backend.
<h4>Automatically displaying linked posts</h4>
Automatically displaying linked posts introduces a new way of displaying linked posts. Next to our widget and shortcode you can now display linked posts by let Post Connector append them to your posts. This new feature prevents the need of editing your theme files allowing you to easily switch themes in the future.
<h4>Unlimited links</h4>
Unlimited links, in all ways. You can create links in links as many times as you want, no limitations. Whether you want to relate one post to 10 others of a different post type or you want to relate a post to posts in several different post types: it’s all easily done.
<h4>Widget & Shortcode</h4>
Post Connector includes a widget for displaying linked posts. Of course you can add the widget multiple times, displaying different links and/or different parents. Next to this you can set the widget’s title, choose whether you want the child posts to be clickable and if you would like to display the excerpt for each child.
Post Connector also includes a shortcode for displaying linked posts. This enable you to output specific linked posts anywhere you can type content (e.g. pages) by simply entering the shortcode. Heck, you don’t even to remember that the shortcode is. Just click the Post Connector icon in the editor, set a few settings and click “Insert Shortcode” and you’re done.
<h4>Multilingual</h4>
Post Connector is available in English, Dutch, German and Spanish and soon many more languages. Post Connector will automatically select the correct language based on your WordPress installation language.
<h4>Network/Multisite compatible</h4>
Post Connector is WordPress Network / Multisite compatible. Each site will have its own version of Post Connector and thus have it own links.
More information
<ul>
<li>Other <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/barrykooij/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress plugins</a> by <a href="http://www.barrykooij.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Barry Kooij</a></li>
<li>Contact Barry on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/CageNL" rel="nofollow ugc">@CageNL</a></li>
<li>If you’re a dev, follow or contribute to the <a href="https://github.com/barrykooij/post-connector" rel="nofollow ugc">Post Connector plugin on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>

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