Vii Studio

Vii Related Posts gives you a widget to output lists of posts related to the current post. You get to decide how the posts are related (random, categories, tags,…) and a whole lot more.
A ViiStudio plugin.
<h4>Features</h4>
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Speed 
Unlike other related posts plugins, Vii Related Posts is super fast. It doesn’t run resource-intensive algorithms on your database and it doesn’t bog down your server. If you’re looking for a plugin that’ll run through all your content and match related posts word-for-word, there are plenty of good ones out there. If you’re looking for a simple, lightning-fast related posts plugin, you’re in the right place.
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Display related posts as post thumbnails, links or excerpts.
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<h4>Settings</h4>
You can easily configure Vii Related Posts with the following settings. These settings are directly configurable in each widget.
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Title 
The title of your widget. Give it blank when you need to hide the widget title.
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Number of posts to show 
The total number of posts you would like to show in each section.
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Related By 
Choose the method by which you want to show related posts. You can choose random, lasted posts, popular posts (by comments), post have same tag, or post have following tag. This field automatically populates with all available possibilities.
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Tag (optional) 
When you choose related by post have following tag, specify custom tag in this field.
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Vii Related Posts

Reduce bounce rates by display related (same category, same tag, specify tag), lasted, popular (comment count) or random posts to your site in the sim …

Marcel Pol

Benoit Chantre

Remco

A simple ‘related posts’ plugin that lets you select related posts manually. Supports any post types in WordPress, including custom ones.
Features:
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<li>Add related posts to your blog posts, pages etc.</li>
<li>Choose from posts, pages or custom post types.</li>
<li>Re-order related posts via drag and drop.</li>
<li>Lightweight in code and database-requests.</li>
<li>Includes Widget that shows the related posts.</li>
<li>List of posts can also be added to the content of your post.</li>
<li>Custom markup possible, build your own caroussel or anything you fancy.</li>
<li>Support for multilanguage plugins, like WPML and Qtranslate-X.</li>
<li>Duplicate plugin Related (Doubled Up) is included to build a second list.</li>
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The plugin was written to have the option to add related posts to each blog post using a simple but functional plugin. You can select the related posts yourself manually.
To display the related posts, there are three options:
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<li>You can use the widget that is included.</li>
<li>Use the content filter inside the settings.</li>
<li>Add PHP code to your template, see the installation docs.</li>
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For advanced options, see the installation docs.
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
This plugin is compatible with <a href="https://www.classicpress.net" rel="nofollow ugc">ClassicPress</a>.
<h4>Contributions</h4>
This plugin is also available in <a href="https://codeberg.org/cyclotouriste/related" rel="nofollow ugc">Codeberg</a>.

Manual Related Posts

Does exactly what is says it will. Very easy to integrate where you need it. Kudos to the dev who made it.

Simple and Easy to integrate

Very handy plugin for manually set your related posts !

Simple and Efficient

A simple 'related posts' plugin that lets you select related posts manually.

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