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.

WebshopLogic

<p>WP Related Posts and Products plugin offers different types of similar contents for your users. For example, some related products can be displayed to your similar posts. This makes connections of your site contents visible to your clients, increasing business efficiency.</p>
<p>Would you like to offer some related products to your blog posts? Do you need to offer up-sell or cross-sell products? Do you have an event calendar plugin, and want to suggest some programs connected to an article? Do you have a custom movie catalog plugin and want to associate some articles to your movies?</p>
<p>Using cross type relationship management functions, WRI makes it possible to associate a post, page, or other custom post type to other posts, pages or custom post types, ensures widely configurable relatedness settings, sophisticated cross-relation adjustments. WRI uses the most popular YARPP relationship handling plugin in the background, extending its functionality, retaining its advantages.</p>
<p>WRI combines automatic, manual and common categorization based relationship management. Some functions are available in the PRO version.</p>
<p>You can set attributes that define how to display different type of related items for every reference item type. Such a matrix-like way you can specify all necessary variations of display settings.</p>
<p>This version ensures built in WooCommerce custom product support.</p>
<h4>More information, documentation</h4>
<p>LITE: <a href="https://webshoplogic.com/products/wordpress_plugins/wp-related-posts-and-products-lite-plugin/#tab-faq&noscroll" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Related Posts and Products Lite Documentation</a><br />
PRO: <a href="https://webshoplogic.com/products/wordpress_plugins/wp-related-posts-and-products-pro-plugin/#tab-faq&noscroll" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Related Posts and Products Pro Documentation</a></p>
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish – translated by Andrew Kurtis – WebHostingHub </li>
<li>Hungarian – translated by WebshopLogic</li>
</ul>


WP Related Posts and Products (WRI)

WP Related Items plugin offers different types of similar contents for your users. For example, some related products can be displayed to your posts.

Same Category Posts vs WP Related Posts and Products (WRI)