Installing and Using Contextual Related Posts

Contextual Related Posts core plugin is hosted on WordPress.org. This makes installing it on your site extremely easy and just like any other plugin.

WordPress install (The easy way)

1. Navigate to “Plugins” within your WordPress Admin Area
2. Click “Add new” and in the search box enter “Contextual Related Posts”
3. Find the plugin in the list (usually the first result) and click “Install Now”
4. Activate or Network activate the Plugin in WP-Admin under the Plugins screen

Manual install

1. Download the plugin
2. Extract the contents of contextual-related-posts.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called contextual-related-posts.
3. Activate or Network activate the Plugin in WP-Admin under the Plugins screen

Installing via WP CLI

If you’re using WP CLI, you can install and activate this plugin by running:

wp plugin install contextual-related-posts --activate

This plugin can also be network activated using:

wp plugin install contextual-related-posts --activate-network

Using Contextual Related Posts

Contextual Related Posts can be used in these ways to display the popular posts:

1. Automatically: This is the default option. You can enable/disable this using the setting Automatically add related posts to in General Settings
2. Widget: Simply drag and drop “Related Posts [CRP]” widget into your theme’s sidebar and configure it
3. Shortcode: [crp], so you can embed it inside a post or a page. View details on the shortcode
4. Template tags: Use echo_crp() to display the related posts anywhere on your theme
5. CRP_Query: You can use this for a more advanced implementation. Read more details on CRP_Query