keesiemeijer

<p>Quickly increase your readers’ engagement by adding related posts in the sidebar or after post content with a widget or shortcode.</p>
<p>Posts with the <strong>most terms in common</strong> will display at the top!</p>
<p>This plugin is capable of finding related posts in multiple <strong>taxonomies</strong> and <strong>post types</strong>. Include or exclude terms from the search for related posts. Change the look and feel by using your own templates in a (child) theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a></p>
<p>Plugin features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Widget and Shortcode.</li>
<li>Display related posts as <strong>post thumbnails</strong>, links, excerpts or full posts.</li>
<li><strong>Small Footprint</strong>. Doesn’t slow down your site!</li>
<li>Automatic display of related posts after the post content.</li>
<li><strong>Exclude</strong> or <strong>include</strong> terms and posts.</li>
<li>Search for related posts in single or multiple <strong>taxonomies</strong> and <strong>post types</strong>.</li>
<li>Limit the search for related posts by date, number or post meta.</li>
<li>Use your own <strong>HTML templates</strong> 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>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Extended features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Use a persistent cache for the related posts query. (opt-in feature)</li>
<li>Use the <strong>WordPress REST API</strong> 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 <strong>plugin functions</strong> in your theme templates to display related posts yourself.</li>
<li>Use Filters to <strong>change the default behavior</strong> of the plugin. </li>
</ul>
<p>Follow this plugin on <a href="https://github.com/keesiemeijer/related-posts-by-taxonomy" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.<br />
Search the <a href="https://keesiemeijer.github.io/related-posts-by-taxonomy" rel="nofollow ugc">code reference</a></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Default usage for the shortcode is:</p>
<pre><code>[related_posts_by_tax]
</code></pre>
<p>Attributes for the shortcode are:</p>
<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>
<p>Example to show 10 related posts instead of the default 5.</p>
<pre><code>[related_posts_by_tax posts_per_page="10"]
</code></pre>
<p>See the <a href="https://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/#shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> for more information about these attributes.</p>
<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>


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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

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<p>Related Posts for WordPress offers you the ability to link related posts to each other with just 1 click!</p>
<p>Our installation wizard will do all the hard work for you, simply activate the plugin, set the amount of posts that should relate and press the button. Related Posts for WordPress will do the rest. Relating posts in WordPress has never been this easy!</p>
<p>Fully tested and working on PHP 5.3 and up (including PHP 8, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 & 8.4)!</p>
<blockquote>
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<ul>
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<li>Custom Taxonomy Support</li>
<li>Adjustable Weights</li>
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</ul>
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<h4>Automatically link posts to each other</h4>
<p>After installing the plugin you will be taking to a wizard that will analyze your posts and link them to each other based on what we think is related. This 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!</p>
<h4>Manually add, edit or remove</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>Related Posts for WordPress has a related post shortcode allowing you to display related posts on any position within your content.</p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
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<p><strong>More information</strong></p>
<ul>
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<li>Contact Barry on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/barry_kooij" rel="nofollow ugc">@barry_kooij</a></li>
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</ul>


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