danielauener

A widget that simply gives you related posts by taxonomy. It provides four 
settings to customize every widget and there are no global settings to worry 
about.
Widget settings
<ol>
<li>The title of the widget (default: Related Posts)</li>
<li>The taxonomy by which terms the posts are related (default: Tags)</li>
<li>How many related posts to show (default 5)</li>
<li>excludet terms</li>
</ol>
The widget is visible only when <code>is_single()</code> is true, it doesn’t shows up on 
archives, search templates etc.
Translation credits
Thanks to Borisa Djuraskovic from <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.webhostinghub.com</a> for the Serbian translation!

Simply Related Posts

A widget that simply gives you related posts by taxonomy. Four settings to customize the widget: title, taxonomy, related posts count, excludet terms

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Custom Related Posts is a user friendly plugin for manually adding related posts to any of your posts, pages or custom post types. You have full control over those related links, choosing for yourself if they go both ways.
An overview of the features:
<ul>
<li>Set which post types the plugin is active for yourself</li>
<li>Easily define relations in one or both ways on the post edit page</li>
<li>Display related posts with a shortcode, widget or block</li>
<li>Optionally show featured images in any size</li>
<li>Import from XML using post IDs</li>
<li>Compatible with the Classic Editor and Gutenberg Block Editor</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
Need help? 
 Check out <a href="https://help.bootstrapped.ventures/collection/155-custom-related-posts" rel="nofollow ugc">our documentation</a>!
</blockquote>
This plugin is under active development. Any feature requests are welcome!

Custom Related Posts


I am using it for more than few years. Its perfect.


Awesome


Simple and light, it is all I need for my project. The Gutenberg integration is pretty cool and UI is easy to work with. Thank you.


Works perfectly


Plugin does its job and it is very usable to integrate in large projects. However, author should be caution to announce plugin HTML output change as breaking changes.


A fine plugin!

Manual related posts without slowing down your website!

Simply Related Posts vs Custom Related Posts