Daniel Floeter

Mrinal Roy

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>.
<h4>Tip Top Press</h4>
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>.
<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>
In text boxes %cat% will replaced with the (first assigned) category name, e.g. “There are a lot of %cat%-News.” -> “There are a lot of Tech-News.”
And %cat-all% will replaced with all assigned category name, e.g. “Special offers for %cat-all%!” -> “Special offers for houses, flats, apartments.”
<h4>Contribute</h4>
While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at 
<a href="https://github.com/DanielFloeter/same-category-posts" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> (If possible with a pull request).

Same Category Posts

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

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.

Same Category Posts vs Related Posts by Taxonomy