Contextual Related Posts

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Contextual Related Posts is a powerful WordPress plugin that helps you increase your site’s engagement by displaying a list of related posts that are relevant and interesting to your readers.

Contextual Related Posts uses a smart algorithm that analyzes the title and/or content of your posts to find the most related ones. This way, you can show your visitors more of your awesome content and keep them on your site longer.

Contextual Related Posts also comes with many features and options that let you customize the look and feel of the related posts list. You can choose between different styles, layouts, thumbnails, excerpts, and more. You can also use widgets, shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks, or REST API to display the related posts anywhere on your site or in your feed.

With Contextual Related Posts, you can easily boost your site’s traffic, reduce bounce rates, and refresh old entries. It’s fast, flexible, and easy to use. Try it today and see the difference for yourself!

Key features

  • Automatic: Just activate the plugin and Contextual Related Posts will automatically display related posts on your site and feed after the content. No need to edit any template files.
  • Manual install: If you want more control over the placement of the related posts, you can use the FAQ to learn about the functions available for manual install.
  • Gutenberg / Block Editor support: You can easily add a block called “Related Posts [CRP]” to any post or page, with its own set of options and settings.
  • Widgets: Add related posts to any widgetized area of your theme, such as the sidebar or footer. You can configure the widget options to suit your needs.
  • Shortcode: Use [crp] to display the related posts anywhere within the post content.
  • REST API: Fetch related posts for any post ID using contextual-related-posts/v1/posts/<id>/. You can also use query parameters to filter or sort the results.
  • The algorithm: Find related posts based on the title and/or content of the current post. You can also find posts by tags, categories and selected custom fields.
  • Caching: Related posts output is automatically cached as visitors browse through your site, reducing the load on your server and improving performance.
  • Exclusions: Exclude posts from certain categories or tags from being displayed in the related posts list. Or you can exclude specific posts or pages by ID using a meta box in the edit screen.
  • Custom post types: The related posts list supports posts, pages, attachments, or any other custom post type that you have on your site.
  • Thumbnail support: Display thumbnails or not!
  • Styles: The output of the related posts list is wrapped in CSS classes that allow you to easily style it using custom CSS code. You can enter your custom CSS code from within the WordPress admin area or use one of the default styles included with the plugin.
  • Customisable output: Display post excerpts in the related posts list. You can set the length of the excerpt in words and also strip HTML tags if needed. Customise the HTML tags and attributes used for displaying the output of the related posts list. For example, you can use an ordered or unordered list, a div container, a span element, etc.
  • Extendable code: Contextual Related Posts has many filters and actions that allow developers to easily add features, modify outputs, or integrate with other plugins.

Features in Contextual Related Posts Pro

CRP Pro enhances your experience with an advanced query block, offering more precise customisation options, additional shortcode functionalities, and enhanced meta box settings.

  • Advanced Algorith: Set the relative weight of the post title, post content and post excerpt. This feature overrides the default equal weight algorithm of the free version and provides a greater degree of fine-tuning.
  • Query Loop Block: An advanced block that allows you to display the related posts based on specified parameters. You can use the pre-built block patterns or create your own block patterns for use within posts or the site editor.
  • Extra shortcode parameters: Additional parameters for the shortcode that allow you to customise the output of the related posts list.
  • Additional Metabox settings: Additional settings in the post edit screen that allow you to customise the related posts output for each post.