Choose where posts appear

Related Post Pro can display related posts on individual posts, pages, and custom post types, or beneath excerpts on archive pages. In content and excerpts, place them before or after the text. Within an article, insert them below the first, second, or third paragraph, or before the last paragraph.

Archive locations include tag, category, date, author, search, and custom taxonomy views, along with the home page, front page, blog page, and year or month archives.

Set the post selection

For an individual post, page, or custom post type, select posts manually. Advanced query settings let you set a maximum number of posts and choose query order and orderby parameters. Queries can use the current post’s categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.

Arrange the display

Choose a grid, slider, or list layout, then configure item width, margin, padding, and text alignment. Sort the title, thumbnail, and excerpt, or hide any of those components. Title and excerpt settings include font size, color, padding, and margin. For thumbnails, choose a size and set a custom height. Custom CSS is available for further element-level styling.

Use inline placement or a popup

Inline placements put related links before or after content or excerpts, or at selected paragraph positions. Pro popup options display posts beneath a single blog post or custom post type. Choose from eight popup positions and set a delay before it appears. A popup can also wait until a reader scrolls to the end of the article content, or to the end of the page or footer.

Custom HTML can follow post titles, excerpts, and thumbnails. Third-party shortcodes can also be output after each of these elements. To place related posts elsewhere, use [related_post] in content or call the shortcode from a theme file. A theme-file example is <?php echo do_shortcode( '[related_post post_id=""]' ); ?>.

Review clicks and set link targets

Enable click tracking to see the top 10 posts by related-post clicks on the statistics page. Set link targets separately for post titles, thumbnails, and read-more links, with options such as _blank and _parent.

After installing and activating the extension, configure its content locations, selection rules, layout, elements, and styling. The extension documentation and tutorials cover setup for content, excerpts, paragraph placements, and popups.