wpdreams

<p>By adding Related Posts to your content header and footer you can enhance the user experience a lot. Well designed related posts section will keep your visitors on your site for a long time.</p>
<p>Stop worrying about related content. Related Posts Lite will provide you a powerful and beautiful related posts solution, which works with custom post types as well. Related Posts Lite uses a complex keyword based engine to look for related content.</p>
<p>The powerful backend will help you to customize the layout and behaviour of the plugin quick and easy.</p>
<p><strong>Why related Posts Lite?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Very easy setup, instantly works</li>
<li>Smart thumbnail images with TimThumb image library</li>
<li>Consumes less CPU power</li>
<li>Database queries are highly optimized</li>
<li>Caching lets you save even more resources</li>
<li>Solid javascript and CSS</li>
<li>Support forum is checked regulary (as you can see)</li>
<li>No limitations</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Features List:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Lookup in posts, pages and custom post types (like WooCommerce products)</li>
<li>Smart fill options, if no related content is found</li>
<li>Clean sliding layout with autoplay</li>
<li>6 retina ready pre-defined themes included</li>
<li>Smart image parsing with BFIThumb image caghing technology</li>
<li>Automatic caching for better speed</li>
<li>Use the custom shortcode [wpdreams_rpl] to put it anywhere ony our site</li>
</ul>
<p>Homepage: <a href="http://wp-dreams.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-dreams.com</a></p>
<p>Pro version Demo:  <a href="http://demo.wp-dreams.com/?product=related_posts_pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Related Posts Pro</a></p>
<h3>Plugin website</h3>
<pre><code>http://wp-dreams.com
</code></pre>


alphasis

<p>The widget area lists posts of the same category as the current post.<br />
This plugin requires the WP_Widget class introduced in WordPress Version 2.8.<br />
This widget works when any single Post page is being displayed.</p>
<h4>Official Page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin’s Official Page : <a href="http://alphasis.info/developments/wordpress-plugins/widgets-of-posts-by-same-categories/" title="English" rel="nofollow ugc">English</a> / <a href="http://alphasis.info/2010/11/widgets-of-posts-by-same-categories/" title="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></li>
</ul>
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Number of Posts to Show by Categories</li>
<li>Order By
<ul>
<li>Sort by title</li>
<li>Sort by creation date</li>
<li>Sort by last modified date</li>
<li>Sort by numeric post ID</li>
<li>Random</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Order
<ul>
<li>Ascending</li>
<li>Descending</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Creates a link to each category?
<ul>
<li>Yes</li>
<li>No</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Exclude (Categories)
<ul>
<li>The IDs of any categories you want to exclude, separated by commas.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Separator
<ul>
<li>What to separate each category by.</li>
</ul>
</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>Current release supports English and Japanese only.</li>
</ul>


Widgets of Posts by Same Categories

The widget area lists posts of the same category as the current post.

Related Posts Lite vs Widgets of Posts by Same Categories