alphasis

<p>The widget area lists posts of the same category as the current post.<br />
This plugin requires the WP_Widget class introduced in WordPress Version 2.8.<br />
This widget works when any single Post page is being displayed.</p>
<h4>Official Page</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin’s Official Page : <a href="http://alphasis.info/developments/wordpress-plugins/widgets-of-posts-by-same-categories/" title="English" rel="nofollow ugc">English</a> / <a href="http://alphasis.info/2010/11/widgets-of-posts-by-same-categories/" title="Japanese" rel="nofollow ugc">Japanese</a></li>
<li>Author’s Website : <a href="http://alphasis.info/" title="alphasis.info" rel="nofollow ugc">alphasis.info</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Number of Posts to Show by Categories</li>
<li>Order By
<ul>
<li>Sort by title</li>
<li>Sort by creation date</li>
<li>Sort by last modified date</li>
<li>Sort by numeric post ID</li>
<li>Random</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Order
<ul>
<li>Ascending</li>
<li>Descending</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Creates a link to each category?
<ul>
<li>Yes</li>
<li>No</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Exclude (Categories)
<ul>
<li>The IDs of any categories you want to exclude, separated by commas.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Separator
<ul>
<li>What to separate each category by.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>Japanese (ja) – <a href="http://alphasis.info/" title="alphasis.info" rel="nofollow ugc">alphasis</a> (plugin author)</li>
<li>Current release supports English and Japanese only.</li>
</ul>


Widgets of Posts by Same Categories

The widget area lists posts of the same category as the current post.

Marcel Pol

Benoit Chantre

Remco

<p>A simple ‘related posts’ plugin that lets you select related posts manually. Supports any post types in WordPress, including custom ones.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>To display the related posts, there are three options:</p>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<p>For advanced options, see the installation docs.</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>This plugin is compatible with <a href="https://www.classicpress.net" rel="nofollow ugc">ClassicPress</a>.</p>
<h4>Contributions</h4>
<p>This plugin is also available in <a href="https://codeberg.org/cyclotouriste/related" rel="nofollow ugc">Codeberg</a>.</p>


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.

Widgets of Posts by Same Categories vs Manual Related Posts