Daniel Floeter

Mrinal Roy

<p>Same Category Posts shows a list of related posts with a same Post Type to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. Forked from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-widget" rel="ugc">Related Posts Widget</a>.</p>
<h4>Tip Top Press</h4>
<p>We’re <a href="http://tiptoppress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tip Top Press</a> and create widgets for WordPress. If you want to know about what we’re working on and you are interested in backgrounds then you can read all newes storys on our <a href="http://tiptoppress.com/blog/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=readme.txt&utm_campaign=same+category+posts" rel="nofollow ugc">blog</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shows a list of related posts.</li>
<li>Option which Post Type should be related to the current post.</li>
<li>Custom Post Types support.</li>
<li>Child category and terms support.</li>
<li>Archive page support.</li>
<li>Option exclude one or multi categories or terms.</li>
<li>Option to filter by popular posts (by comment count).</li>
<li>Option <a href="http://tiptoppress.com/new-dynamic-layout-feature-separate-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">separate categories</a> if more than one is assigned.</li>
<li>Set how many posts to show (overall and by category).</li>
<li>Option exclude current post, sticky posts or children.</li>
<li>Option exclude categories and terms without exclude their children.</li>
<li>Placeholders in title string (e.g. “There are a lot of %cat%-News.” -> “There are a lot of Tech-News.”).</li>
<li>Filter hook for the post titles ‘widget_title’.</li>
<li>Option to show post thumbnail and set width & height.</li>
<li>Option to <a href="http://tiptoppress.com/css-image-crop/" rel="nofollow ugc">crop thumbnails dimensions with CSS</a>.</li>
<li>Option to put thumbnail on top.</li>
<li>Option to make the widget title link to the category page.</li>
<li>Option to show/hide the title.</li>
<li>Option to show the post excerpt and how long (in words).</li>
<li>Option change excerpt ‘more’ text.</li>
<li>Option to show the post date, author and comment count.</li>
<li>Multiple widgets.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Placeholder</h4>
<p>In text boxes <strong>%cat%</strong> will replaced with the (first assigned) category name, e.g. “There are a lot of %cat%-News.” -> “There are a lot of Tech-News.”</p>
<p>And <strong>%cat-all%</strong> will replaced with all assigned category name, e.g. “Special offers for %cat-all%!” -> “Special offers for houses, flats, apartments.”</p>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at<br />
<a href="https://github.com/DanielFloeter/same-category-posts" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).</p>


Same Category Posts

Show posts related to the current category or other custom post types.

Marcel Pol

Remco

Benoit Chantre

<p>A simple ‘related posts’ plugin that lets you select related posts manually. Supports any post types in WordPress, including custom ones.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add related posts to your blog posts, pages etc.</li>
<li>Choose from posts, pages or custom post types.</li>
<li>Re-order related posts via drag and drop.</li>
<li>Lightweight in code and database-requests.</li>
<li>Includes Widget that shows the related posts.</li>
<li>List of posts can also be added to the content of your post.</li>
<li>Custom markup possible, build your own caroussel or anything you fancy.</li>
<li>Support for multilanguage plugins, like WPML and Qtranslate-X.</li>
<li>Duplicate plugin Related (Doubled Up) is included to build a second list.</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin was written to have the option to add related posts to each blog post using a simple but functional plugin. You can select the related posts yourself manually.</p>
<p>To display the related posts, there are three options:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can use the widget that is included.</li>
<li>Use the content filter inside the settings.</li>
<li>Add PHP code to your template, see the installation docs.</li>
</ul>
<p>For advanced options, see the installation docs.</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>This plugin is compatible with <a href="https://www.classicpress.net" rel="nofollow ugc">ClassicPress</a>.</p>
<h4>Contributions</h4>
<p>This plugin is also available in <a href="https://codeberg.org/cyclotouriste/related" rel="nofollow ugc">Codeberg</a>.</p>


Manual Related Posts

Does exactly what is says it will. Very easy to integrate where you need it. Kudos to the dev who made it.

Simple and Easy to integrate

Very handy plugin for manually set your related posts !

Simple and Efficient

A simple 'related posts' plugin that lets you select related posts manually.

Same Category Posts vs Manual Related Posts