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.

WebshopLogic

<p>WP Related Posts and Products plugin offers different types of similar contents for your users. For example, some related products can be displayed to your similar posts. This makes connections of your site contents visible to your clients, increasing business efficiency.</p>
<p>Would you like to offer some related products to your blog posts? Do you need to offer up-sell or cross-sell products? Do you have an event calendar plugin, and want to suggest some programs connected to an article? Do you have a custom movie catalog plugin and want to associate some articles to your movies?</p>
<p>Using cross type relationship management functions, WRI makes it possible to associate a post, page, or other custom post type to other posts, pages or custom post types, ensures widely configurable relatedness settings, sophisticated cross-relation adjustments. WRI uses the most popular YARPP relationship handling plugin in the background, extending its functionality, retaining its advantages.</p>
<p>WRI combines automatic, manual and common categorization based relationship management. Some functions are available in the PRO version.</p>
<p>You can set attributes that define how to display different type of related items for every reference item type. Such a matrix-like way you can specify all necessary variations of display settings.</p>
<p>This version ensures built in WooCommerce custom product support.</p>
<h4>More information, documentation</h4>
<p>LITE: <a href="https://webshoplogic.com/products/wordpress_plugins/wp-related-posts-and-products-lite-plugin/#tab-faq&noscroll" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Related Posts and Products Lite Documentation</a><br />
PRO: <a href="https://webshoplogic.com/products/wordpress_plugins/wp-related-posts-and-products-pro-plugin/#tab-faq&noscroll" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Related Posts and Products Pro Documentation</a></p>
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish – translated by Andrew Kurtis – WebHostingHub </li>
<li>Hungarian – translated by WebshopLogic</li>
</ul>


WP Related Posts and Products (WRI)

WP Related Items plugin offers different types of similar contents for your users. For example, some related products can be displayed to your posts.

Widgets of Posts by Same Categories vs WP Related Posts and Products (WRI)