David Miller

<p>Similarity displays a list of posts similar to the current post with similarity being determined based on tags, categories, or both. The display of the list is fully customizable including the ability to display the strength of the similarity as a value, percentage, color, or custom text/code. Another option allows for a less related post to be randomly selected and appended to the list. The list can be limited by one or both of a numerical limit or (as of version 2.1) match strength.</p>
<p>This plugin is translation ready and comes with English (U.S.), French, Polish, German, italian, and Spanish translations. Thanks to Li-An (http://li-an.fr/blog/) for providing the French translation. Thanks to Krzysztof Kudlacik (http://born66.net/) for providing the Polish translation. Thanks to Bjoern Buerstinghaus (http://www.buerstinghaus.net/) for providing the German, Italian and Spanish translations.</p>
<p>Prior to Version 1.6 private posts would potentially show in the list of related posts. In 1.6 these were skipped. As of version 1.7 private posts will show for the post author or others with the ability to read private posts. It is strongly recommended that users who have private posts install version 1.6 or higher.</p>
<p>The plugin allows for three function calls anywhere in your page templates (all use the same options):</p>
<ul>
<li><code><?php sim_by_tag(); ?></code> – determines similarity based on the tags applied to the posts</li>
<li><code><?php sim_by_cat(); ?></code> – determines similarity based on the categories assigned to the posts</li>
<li><code><?php sim_by_mix(); ?></code> – determines similarity based on the tags and categories assigned to the posts</li>
</ul>
<p>There are also three function calls that are better suited for use in sidebars (specifically when the sidebar is used on the main page)</p>
<ul>
<li><code><?php sim_by_tag_multi(); ?></code> – determines similarity based on the tags applied to the first post on milti-post pages</li>
<li><code><?php sim_by_cat_multi(); ?></code> – determines similarity based on the categories assigned to the first post on milti-post pages</li>
<li><code><?php sim_by_mix(_multi); ?></code> – determines similarity based on the categories and tags assigned to the first post on milti-post pages weighting each according to the ratio you assign</li>
<li>To display a Similarity list as a widget use a text widget with one of the following shortcodes – <code>[SIM-BY-TAG]</code> <code>[SIM-BY-CAT]</code> <code>[SIM-BY-MIX]</code> for single post pages only or for all pages use <code>[SIM-BY-TAG-MULTI]</code> <code>[SIM-BY-CAT-MULTI]</code> or <code>[SIM-BY-MIX-MULTI]</code></li>
<li>To display a Similarity list without altering your templates simply select the function that you would like to auto-display at the bottom of the options page.</li>
</ul>


Similarity

Similarity displays a list of posts similar to the current post with similarity being determined based on tags, categories, or both.

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.

Similarity vs Same Category Posts