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.

alphasis

<p>This Plugin will display the related posts list via categories.<br />
It can automatically display the related posts list after the content of any single post of selected post types by options.<br />
There are many options for the display, order, exclusion and post-type selection.<br />
This plugin works when viewing a post of selected post types by options.<br />
This plugin requires jQuery 1.6 or higher.</p>
<h4>Official Page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin’s Official Page : <a href="http://alphasis.info/developments/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-via-categories/" title="Plugin's Official Page in English" rel="nofollow ugc">English</a> / <a href="http://alphasis.info/kaihatu/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-via-categories/" title="Plugin's Official Page in 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> (Japanese) » <a href="http://alphasis.info/developments/wordpress-plugins/" title="WordPress Plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugins</a> (English)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Related Posts via Categories – Options</h4>
<p>‘Settings’ » ‘Related Posts via Categories’</p>
<h4>Display</h4>
<ul>
<li>Auto display
<ul>
<li>This option automatically displays related posts after the content on the single post page.</li>
<li>If this option is off, you will need to manually insert <code>display_related_posts_via_categories()</code> into your theme files.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Maximum number of related posts
<ul>
<li>If you do not enter anything: 10</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Related posts title
<ul>
<li>For example: Related Posts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before related posts title and related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><div id="related-posts-via-categories"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After related posts title and related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></div></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before related posts title
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><h2 id="related-posts-via-categories-title"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After related posts title
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></h2></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><ul id="related-posts-via-categories-list"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After related posts
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></ul></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Before each related post
<ul>
<li>For example: <code><li class="related-posts-via-categories-item"></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>After each related post
<ul>
<li>For example: <code></li></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Order</h4>
<ul>
<li>Order By
<ul>
<li>Related Scores : High  ( Speedy ) </li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Published : New ( Default setting )</li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Published : Old</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Published : New</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Published : Old</li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Modified : New</li>
<li>Related Scores : High / Date Modified : Old</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Modified : New</li>
<li>Related Scores : Low / Date Modified : Old</li>
<li>Date Published : New</li>
<li>Date Published : Old</li>
<li>Date Modified : New</li>
<li>Date Modified : Old</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Exclude</h4>
<ul>
<li>Exclude (Posts)
<ul>
<li>The IDs of any posts you want to exclude, separated by commas.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Exclude (Categories)
<ul>
<li>Select checkboxes of any categories you want to exclude.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Post types</h4>
<ul>
<li>Select checkboxes of any post types you want to include in the list of Related Posts and display the list.</li>
<li>Displays checkboxes of them when there is any custom post types.</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>Persian (fa_IR) – <a href="http://qanal.ir/" title="Omid Sheerkavand" rel="nofollow ugc">Omid Sheerkavand</a></li>
<li>Armenian (hy_AM) – <a href="http://ablog.gratun.am" title="Artak Kolyan" rel="nofollow ugc">Artak Kolyan</a></li>
<li>Current release supports English, Persian, Armenian and Japanese.</li>
</ul>


Same Category Posts vs Related Posts via Categories