The WebberZone Followed Posts settings page is at Settings > Followed Posts. Settings are organized across five tabs: General, Output, Thumbnail, Styles, and Feed.
General tab
Enable cache
When enabled, the HTML output for each post is saved in post meta on first load and reused on subsequent page loads. Disable temporarily when testing output changes. Default: enabled.
Add followed posts to
Controls where the plugin automatically appends the followed posts list. Each location can be toggled independently:
- Posts — singular post pages
- Pages — singular page pages
- Home page — the site front page
- Feeds — RSS and Atom feeds
- Category archives — category archive pages
- Tag archives — tag archive pages
- Other archives — custom taxonomy, author, and date archives
Deselecting all locations disables automatic insertion. You can still display the list manually using the shortcode, block, widget, or PHP functions.
Default: Posts, Pages.
Track user groups
Controls which logged-in user roles are tracked. Uncheck a role to exclude that group from tracking:
- Authors — users who are the author of the current post
- Editors — users with the
edit_others_postscapability but notmanage_options - Admins — users with the
manage_optionscapability
Default: all three groups tracked.
Track logged-in users
When unchecked, no logged-in users are tracked, regardless of the Track user groups setting above. Only logged-out visitors are tracked. Default: enabled.
Tracker type
The method used by the JavaScript beacon to send tracking data:
- REST API based (recommended) — posts to the
wfp/v1/trackerREST endpoint. Better performance. - Ajax based — posts to
admin-ajax.php. Use this if REST API requests are blocked on your server.
Default: REST API based.
Debug mode
When enabled, the tracker logs its server response to the browser console instead of silently returning a 204 No Content response. Disable on live sites. Default: disabled.
Add admin column
Adds a Followed Posts column to the All Posts list table in the WordPress admin, showing the tracked post IDs for each post at a glance. Default: enabled.
Link to plugin page
Appends a small “Powered by WebberZone Followed Posts” credit link (with rel="nofollow") after the followed posts list. Default: disabled.
List options
Number of posts to display
The maximum number of followed posts shown in the list. Default: 6.
Post types to include
The post types from which followed posts are drawn. Accepts a comma-separated list when using the shortcode or PHP functions. Default: post.
Post/page IDs to exclude
Comma-separated list of post or page IDs to exclude from the followed posts list globally. Example: 188,320,500. Default: empty.
Exclude Categories
Comma-separated list of category slugs to exclude. The field has autocomplete support — start typing a category name and select from the suggestions. Posts in these categories will not appear in the followed posts list. Does not support custom taxonomies. Default: empty.
The Exclude category IDs field below it is read-only and is automatically populated with the corresponding category IDs when you save the settings. You do not need to edit it manually.
CRP Integration
Configure integration with Contextual Related Posts to feed followed posts data into the related posts system.
Enable CRP Integration
Feed followed posts data to Contextual Related Posts. This allows CRP to display posts that users actually clicked on from the current post. Requires Contextual Related Posts to be installed and active. Default: disabled.
Maximum Followed Posts
Maximum number of followed posts to feed to CRP. Set to 0 for no limit. Default: 3.
Output tab
Heading of posts
The HTML heading displayed above the followed posts list. HTML is allowed. Default: <h3>Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:</h3>.
Show when no posts are found
What to display when there are no followed posts for the current post:
- Blank output — outputs nothing (default)
- Display custom text — outputs the text entered in the Custom text field below
Custom text
The text displayed when no followed posts are found and Display custom text is selected above. Default: Visitors have not browsed from this post. Become the first by clicking one of our related posts.
Don’t display on these posts/pages
Comma-separated list of post or page IDs where the followed posts list will not be shown, even if automatic insertion is enabled. Example: 188,320,500. Default: empty.
Show post author in list
Displays the post author below each item in the list. Default: disabled.
Show post date in list
Displays the published date below each item in the list. Default: disabled.
Show post excerpt in list
Displays the post excerpt below each item in the list. Default: disabled.
Length of excerpt (in words)
Number of words in the excerpt when Show post excerpt in list is enabled. Default: 10.
Limit post title length (in characters)
Truncates post titles longer than this value. Default: 60.
Open links in new window
Adds target="_blank" to all followed post links. Default: disabled.
Add nofollow to links
Adds rel="nofollow" to all followed post links. Default: disabled.
Customize the output
These four fields let you replace the default HTML wrappers around the list and each list item:
- Before the list of posts — HTML inserted before the list. Default:
<ul>. - After the list of posts — HTML inserted after the list. Default:
</ul>. - Before each list item — HTML inserted before each post entry. Default:
<li>. - After each list item — HTML inserted after each post entry. Default:
</li>.
Thumbnail tab
Location of the post thumbnail
Where the thumbnail appears relative to the post title:
- Display thumbnails inline with posts, before title (
inline) - Display thumbnails inline with posts, after title (
after) - Display only thumbnails, no text (
thumbs_only) - Do not display thumbnails, only text (
text_only) — default
Thumbnail size
The registered image size to use for thumbnails. Select from any image size registered on your site. Default: thumbnail (150×150 px).
Thumbnail container width
The width of the image container element in pixels. Does not resize the image itself, only the container. Default: 150.
Thumbnail container height
The height of the image container element in pixels. Does not resize the image itself, only the container. Default: 150.
Thumbnail size attributes
How the width and height are applied to the <img> element:
- Use HTML attributes — sets
widthandheightattributes, e.g.width="150" height="150". Default. - Use CSS — sets
style="max-width:150px;max-height:150px". - No width or height set — no size attributes are output; apply sizing via your own CSS.
Thumbnail meta field name
The name of a custom field whose value holds the URL of the thumbnail image. This is checked first in the image lookup order. Default: post-image.
Get first image
When enabled, the plugin scans the post content for the first <img> tag and uses it as the thumbnail if no other image is found. Enabling this can slow down page loads if that first image is large. Default: enabled.
Use default thumbnail?
When enabled and no thumbnail is found by any other method, the image at the Default thumbnail URL is shown. When disabled and no thumbnail is found, no image is output. Default: enabled.
Default thumbnail
The full URL of the fallback image displayed when no other thumbnail is found. Default: the plugin’s own default.png.
Styles tab
Followed Posts style
The built-in CSS stylesheet applied to the followed posts list. Options:
- No styles — No stylesheet is loaded. Use this if you want to apply entirely custom CSS.
- Text only — A clean text-only list style without thumbnails.
- Left thumbnails — Thumbnails aligned to the left with post details to the right.
- Grid thumbnails — A responsive grid layout. Enabling this forces thumbnails on and overrides the thumbnail width and height. It also disables the author, excerpt, and date display if those are enabled. Disabling grid style does not revert those settings automatically.
Default: No styles.
Custom CSS
Additional CSS added inline to every page where the plugin loads. Do not include <style> tags. Available CSS classes are documented in the plugin FAQ on WordPress.org. Default: empty.
Feed tab
These settings override the main settings for the followed posts list when it appears inside RSS/Atom feeds. They only apply when Feeds is selected under Add followed posts to in the General tab.
Number of posts to display
Maximum number of followed posts shown in the feed. Default: 6.
Show post excerpt in list?
Display the post excerpt in the feed list. Default: disabled.
Location of the post thumbnail
Thumbnail position in the feed:
- Display thumbnails inline with posts, before title (
inline) - Display thumbnails inline with posts, after title (
after) - Display only thumbnails, no text (
thumbs_only) - Do not display thumbnails, only text (
text_only) — default
Thumbnail width
Width of the thumbnail in the feed, in pixels. Default: 150.
Thumbnail height
Height of the thumbnail in the feed, in pixels. Default: 150.
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