After, the longest search of all to find the best ‘Related Posts’ I’ve always ended up with the same plugin: YARRP.
Although Mitch (@yarpp) is a great man and developed a text tool that is beyond good. It is not attractive enough. And the guides he provides to Display thumbnails for Related posts in WordPress are beyond ridiculously long and more then that -tiring. Because right after you’re done with that guide you realize that now you have to go to each and every single article and add a custom note ‘wp-thumbnail’ and attach a 125×125 url. OK That’s obviously not happening with our blog (2000+ blog entries)? Are you INSANE?
My top best ‘Related Posts’ in WordPress Plugin are:
The crown goes to WP-Thumbie by Blogsdna.com
What does it do? – WP-Thumbie displays a list of Thumbnail related posts for the current post.
- You can select the number of posts to be display in your content / feed.
- You can choose to exclude posts from certain categories as well as exclude pages.
Features
- Display Related Posts with thumbnail image automatically in content / feed, no need to edit template files
- Doesn’t use any custom field to generate thumbnail images
- You can manually add code to your template where you want the Wp-thumbie to be displayed
- Exclude posts from categories
- Exclude display of thumbnail related posts on Pages
- Exclude pages in thumbnail related Posts list
- Related posts based on content and post title
- Set Thumbnail image size
- Turn on/off Post excerpt
- set lenth of Post excerpt
- Different Styling for displaying thumbnail related posts
- Display Thumbnail related posts in RSS Feeds (Styling issue)
YARPP – ‘Yet Another Related Post – Takes 2nd place for being most clever, (reading both content & tags & titles).
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