Vii Studio

<p>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.</p>
<p>A ViiStudio plugin.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
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<p><strong>Speed</strong><br />
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.</p>
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<p>Display related posts as <strong>post thumbnails</strong>, links or excerpts.</p>
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<h4>Settings</h4>
<p>You can easily configure Vii Related Posts with the following settings. These settings are directly configurable in each widget.</p>
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<p><strong>Title</strong><br />
The title of your widget. Give it blank when you need to hide the widget title.</p>
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<p><strong>Number of posts to show</strong><br />
The total number of posts you would like to show in each section.</p>
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<p><strong>Related By</strong><br />
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.</p>
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<p><strong>Tag (optional)</strong><br />
When you choose related by post have following tag, specify custom tag in this field.</p>
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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 …

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>
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<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>
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<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.

Vii Related Posts vs Same Category Posts