Contextual Related Posts
The best and easiest way to add related posts on your WordPress blog for free
Features overview
Everything you need to add highly efficient and beautiful related posts to your site in minutes
Quick install
Installing the plugin is extremely simple. Search for Contextual Related Posts in your Plugins » Add New screen and hit Install Now. The plugin will automatically add beautiful thumbnails at the bottom of your WordPress posts.
Beautiful default display
Once you install the plugin, Contextual Related Posts will automatically add a beautiful set of related posts displayed as thumbnails at the bottom of every post and page
Aggressive Caching Algorithm
Contextual Related Posts has an in-built cache that makes subsequent queries super efficient.
This means that Contextual Related Posts will not slow your site down. Just turn the cache ON under General Options on the plugin settings page.
Additional features and benefits
Plenty of options to make the plugin fit for your site
Shortcode
Add the related posts with a powerful shortcode with a huge list of potential arguments
Custom CSS Styles
You can easily change the display of the related posts by using your own custom styles
Thumbnail support
The plugin can use a custom image, featured image or extract the first image of your post
Customisable output
Display author, excerpt or date or change the HTML markup from the default ul and li tags.
Widget
If your theme supports it, then just drag and drop the widget into your sidebar or footer
Gutenberg ready
You can find a block called “Related Posts [CRP]” with its own configurable set of options
Custom API
Advanced users and developers can take advantage of the easy to use plugin API for custom layouts
Developer friendly
Contextual Related Posts has tonnes of actions, filters, and smart coding making it a developer-friendly plugin
70,000+ installs and counting
Contextual Related Posts has been downloaded over a million times and is used on over 80,000 blogs
And, the 4.8 out of 5 stars rating tells you how much our users love this plugin and here’s some of what they are saying…