This post will guide you to add related post entries to the current page of your WordPress blog that will based on a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, categories, and custom taxonomies. This plugin finds related content from across your site. We have included the best-related posts plugin with and without thumbnails for WordPress.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin without Thumbnails | nrelate Related Posts Plugin with Text & Thumbnails
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Why Related Post Entries are Important for Blogs
As far as SEO is concerned, internal linking is very important for every blog specially, if we are in the world of Google Panda and Penguin. Every webmasters are trying to give their best with interlinking their blog’s content. You must be very careful to internal links on your site. Related posts plugin “for WordPress” gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to another relevant content on your site. Related posts will show on each post after your content area that will count as internal links. Just you have to install the plugin that will show the related entries after each post, which may reduce the bounce rate of your blog. In short, you can increase your pageviews per visit by displaying related entries post title below to the current page.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) Without Thumbnails for WordPress
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) will display your related posts to the bottom of every post based on the hypertext link. YARPP also displayed the related links on your WordPress feed. YARPP is the most downloaded plugin with more than 1.7 million from the WordPress Plugins directory. We also use Yet Another Related Posts Plugin on this blog; you may check a live preview at the bottom of this post. Follow the simple steps to have this plugin to your WordPress blog.
- Go to the plugin page of Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), and download the plugin to your desktop.
- Now, upload this plugin to your WordPress and activate it. Here is the process to Install a WordPress Plugin.
- Once you have installed and activated YARPP, go to Settings » Related Posts (YARPP) as shown in the image below,and make a tick on the features you want to use with YARPP. Below is a screenshot for our YARPP’s setting.Once you have set it up, don’t forget to click on Save Changes. If you want to add related posts plugin with thumbnails, follow the below steps.
nrelate Related Content Plugin with Thumbnails for WordPress
By default, nrelate has more styles to display the related content entries than any other plugins have. In addition, it has some other features to include the related posts from your other websites to the current blog posts via blogroll. You may also earn money by displaying the ads among your related content. You can set whatever you want with nrelate after the installation. You may look on the different styles provided by nrelate related content plugin,
nrelate Related Content Preview
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If you like the previews, and want to install this awesome plugin to your WordPress blog, follow the below steps,
- Go to the plugin page of nrelate Related Content Plugin, and download the plugin to your desktop.
- Now, upload this plugin to your WordPress and activate it. Here is the process to Install a WordPress Plugin.
- Once you have installed and activated plugin, you will see a new tab called “nrelate” to the WordPress admin panel. Now, go to nrelate » Dashboard. In this section, you may sign up for earn money. You can send your WordPress admin email address for communication with nrelate. You may exclude the categories; you do not want to show on related content entries. If a post is in multiple categories, and one of those categories is excluded, it will not show up.
- Now, go to nrelate » Related Content, and choose your display options for your related content entries under General tab, below is a screenshot for my settings.Set the options according to your need. Choose thumbnails or text, and set the relevancy to Low (recommended), if you write about your niche. If you write about wide topics, then I recommend you to set it to be high. Finally, click on Save Changes. You may include the related entries from other blogs to your current post that are in your blogroll. For using this feature, in WordPress admin panel, go to Links » Add New, and add the new blog link with category “Blogroll”, and hit on Add Link. Again, go back to the nrelate general setting’s page as shown in the above image tick on “Blogroll” under Partner Settings section. Choose how many links you want to show on your related content entries from these blogroll links. Finally, click on Save Changes. Now, go to the Thumbnails Gallery tab, and choose the design for your related content entries and save it.
- Troubleshooting:If you have some issues with nrelate post content plugin in your post pages, then below are the common problems along with the solution.
- If the post content entries with thumbnails show differently than the preview under Thumbnails Gallery, for example, let you choose “Huffingtonpost” style, and you do not get the exact display on your blog pages what mentioned on the preview. The common problem is, the thumbnail’s image is in float left, but the post title and excerpt not showing at the right of the image, instead of that showing below to the image. Solution, go to nrelate » Related Content, under General main settings tab look at the “Maximum number of characters for title?” option, edit the no. of character to lower integer as 50 or 40. Click on Save Changes, and look that it shows correctly. If no, then try to decrease that value, and watch.
- You will have seen Engadget style on the above screenshot. Do you not have the option to set Engadget style for your WordPress sidebar on the gallery? Solution, go back to the general main settings page, and change the display option from thumbnails to text, and click on Save Changes. Now, go to Text Gallery tab and set Engadget style. Now, look on WordPress admin menu panel and go to Appearance » Widgets, drag and drop “nrelate Related Content” to your sidebar widget.
You have successfully installed related posts plugin for WordPress to display the related content post title link at the bottom of every post. You may add the related posts to your WordPress sidebar widget from both plugins.
Hmm I used nRelate before but it was always very glitchy for me… I’ve been experimenting with good ol’ WordPress Related Posts, LinkWithin, and Zemanta and so far I think I like Zemanta the best. It offers a lot more customization and features then all of the other options.
You may use YARPP that finds the most targeted related links related to the current post entries.