Best Related Posts with thumbnails plugin for wordpress

Best Related Posts

Best Related Posts is a straight forward and easy to use plug in. It shows related posts for the post user is reading. It also add the first picture in post as thumbnail beside the related post.

It is better than other plugins and widgets as it is good for internal link building and overall pagerank. it Lets you to design the look of your related posts list. It lets to write your own HTML and gives you access to some tags (link, title, image, …)

Download

Want to try it download Best Related Posts Plugin from WordPress site

How to Use Best Related Posts Plugin

To add the related post list, usually you have to open the single.php of your current theme and add the PHP code:

<?php boposts_show(); ?>

or can use Post Layout plugin and add such line of code in the single post bottom.

Best Related Posts Plugin comes with a predefined layout which is a table suitable for most blog design but you can modify it as you like.

The layout is composed by an header block, a footer block and a body block. The body block will be repeated for the number of related posts found (limited by max posts values).

Tags need to be used within the body block that will be replaced with related posts data (such as title, permalink, excerpt, image and so on).

See Plug in action

112 responses so far

112 Responses to “Best Related Posts”

# fruityon 27 Aug 2009 at 7:24 pm

How do I prevent “pages” from appearing? I just want “posts” to be displayed.
# adminon 29 Aug 2009 at 10:06 am

I will fix this in next update.. I am working on this
# Smirkon 29 Aug 2009 at 4:50 pm

Added it using post layout plugin. It always shows “No results”, however I have 5 posts with very similar titles, same categories and tags.
# Ryanon 30 Aug 2009 at 9:24 am

This is a great plugin, thanks to team Sutlej for the work.

@fruity, here’s a quick fix to just show posts

in the file “plugin.php”, find and replace this line “‘ and post_status in (\’publish\’) and id!=’ . $post->ID . ” with “‘ and post_type in (\’post\’) and post_status in (\’publish\’) and id!=’ . $post->ID .” and it will just show posts.
# adminon 01 Sep 2009 at 10:17 am

Thank you for your contribution Ryan! we will be releasing the update to plugin with your fix. of course with an acknowledgment of your contribution
# danielon 01 Sep 2009 at 1:36 pm

Added it using post layout plugin. It always shows “No results”, however I have 5 posts with very similar titles, same categories and tags.

i have this same problem.. can you help me ?
# Ma9or !on 01 Sep 2009 at 2:42 pm

Hello ,

Thanks for this plugin .

I want to know if there any way to add the thumbnails by add special filed ?

I mean the I don’t want the plugin take the first image I want to add the thumbnails by my self ..

Thanks
# Jeson 01 Sep 2009 at 7:16 pm

This is a great plugin! But as with Smirk, it always shows “No Results”, and of course I have many similar articles.
# Another ryanon 01 Sep 2009 at 9:38 pm

Just updated the newest version. Getting no results error. Do I need to make the above change?
# Thomason 01 Sep 2009 at 11:53 pm

I’m using your nice plugin. I’ve just updated to the last version and it works no more. Instead to see related posts, I see “No results” everywhere. I’v already tried to desactivate and to reactivate again the plugin…

Please help. Thanks for your answer.
# R. MAK.on 02 Sep 2009 at 1:09 am

Sorry for the trouble folks!

Just released the update 1.0.5 with the fix to above issues..
# matejon 02 Sep 2009 at 3:26 am

hello,
sounds like a great plugin, but i get:
No results with 1.0.5 version.

Is it working based on tags? I have tried to add TEST tag to 5 posts….

thanks for reply,
M.
# Thomason 02 Sep 2009 at 5:51 am

THANKS a lot ! It works again
# Jeson 02 Sep 2009 at 1:45 pm

Thanks for a great plugin!! Is there a way to align the top of all of the images? Mine are uneven. Anyone else seeing that?
# JMon 02 Sep 2009 at 4:20 pm

Nice plugin tks. It’s what I need but… there I have a problem.

I use to write my own excerpt and dont let WP to get it from the first lines of the post. Your plugin get the excerpt from first lines of the post and not from the really excerpt from wp.

So, my question is: It’s possible yo can change the code in a way that, in case the excerpt exist, get this excerpt, else get the excerpt from the post?

Tks in advance
# Jeson 02 Sep 2009 at 9:11 pm

I changed <td valign="top" to <td style="vertical-align: top" and it aligns the top of the images.
# shibawion 02 Sep 2009 at 10:05 pm

It’s cool plugin and works, previously the plugin wasn’t work, but after update automatically, it’s work. thanks..
# R. MAK.on 03 Sep 2009 at 8:37 am

Cool thing about this plugin is that you can format it how you like thanks for your tip
# R. MAK.on 03 Sep 2009 at 8:43 am

for next update, I will keep your suggestion mind. thanks for checking this out
# viceon 05 Sep 2009 at 4:19 am

i have wordpres 2.8.4 and your plugin 1.0.5 and keeps showing “no results”. i tried other related posts plugins and the worked. can you help me pls? thx
# Pallabon 05 Sep 2009 at 1:13 pm

Great plugin, but I had to remove it because it has a major problem. have a look at this image:
It needs to have a built in crop functionality.
# Nicoleon 06 Sep 2009 at 8:24 pm

Hi there, thanks so much for the plug-in, it’s great! Just a small problem though, only one thumbnail appears, while the rest of the image placeholders are empty. Is there a way to solve this?

Thanks!
# zon 09 Sep 2009 at 10:19 pm

a little suggestion here.
rather than putting that first image in the post as the thumbnail, can we put set the custom value of the image? i think that would be better. because not all post is started with an image. btw its just a suggestion to make it better. thank you for this great plugin though
# kidon 12 Sep 2009 at 2:38 pm

Hi, this is a great plugin. One question…
How to avoid that some posts are displayed?
# Paulon 13 Sep 2009 at 11:11 pm

I found this plug-in by mistake and have to say it’s amazing! Thank you!
# ceopson 16 Sep 2009 at 7:58 pm

when i saw first i liked it to much but afetr installed i feel bad cause its not enough elegant. if u make any classic slimy frames to seperate posts i think will be better. But this is just my opinion dont care. wish u best (^-^)
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# martinon 25 Sep 2009 at 7:52 am

installed plugin — but only the text appears — no images. Any idea what is going on? I am using WP 2.8.4. Thanks!
# R. MAK.on 25 Sep 2009 at 2:20 pm

Do you have image on your site?
# Banglaon 29 Sep 2009 at 8:04 am

Great Plugin. Thanks. I am using it in my new site.
# Fenellaon 30 Sep 2009 at 6:24 pm

Wow! Took less than 3 minutes to get it installed and working perfectly. Thanks for such a great plugin. Keep up the good work!
# Simonon 01 Oct 2009 at 5:24 am

Just want to praise your efforts, and say keep on..regards
# udayon 01 Oct 2009 at 9:00 pm

Hi. Is there any way to align this posts vertically – I mean i would like to bring 3 thumbnails on my sidebar of 180 px width vertically.

thanks
# Gagaon 10 Oct 2009 at 7:38 pm

This is an amazing plugin. Thanks for putting it out there.
# zaalandon 11 Oct 2009 at 8:56 am

Hi !
The plugin results are not visible using Firefox 3.5 (nothing “best related posts” visible at all). Works great with other browsers like IE or Chrome.
Am I the only blind ?
Congrats for the great work anyhow.
# wildbugon 11 Oct 2009 at 11:06 am

Fantastic plugin! But for a lot of the “related” posts displayed, I know there are posts much more related to what’s being shown. Is there any way to get the results to take the “tags” into consideration? That would get a much closer results display. Thanks…
# wildbugon 11 Oct 2009 at 11:43 am

Hi again,
A few more questions:

1. Some of my images are not appearing. They all do show up on my archives/category listing page. Is there any way to adapt the plugin to use the same image as what is used on my archives/category listing page to make sure an image displays?

2. Also, I want my images to be a square shape (110px x 110px). Currently, the images on my archives/category listing page are resized/cropped. Is there any way to do the same for the images that display from your plugin? Right now, they appear distorted.

3. The issue I posted about previously is a big problem on some posts, as the “related” posts are completely unrelated. The tags would give a much tighter post result. Hope you can help me adapt the code to incorporate that!

4. This plugin looks great, but as I am new to WP and programming, I am unsure if it will have any big effect on load time for my posts. Will this slow my site down a lot?

Also, you might want to put your plugin on this list so others know you are compatible with 2.8.4: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.8

Thanks for a great looking plugin – it really adds to my site!!
# wildbugon 12 Oct 2009 at 1:27 pm

The developer is not answering support questions at this time, so I am hoping others who have used this plugin can help me out with the issues I posted above. Thanks so much to anyone that can advise me!!
# AutoSpinnon 15 Oct 2009 at 4:08 pm

It’s the best in this type of plugin I’ve tried linkwithin, thumbie but I found this is the best. Thanks a lot
# Christian Fosson 22 Oct 2009 at 5:30 pm

Hello and thanks for the neat plugin!

I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be smarter to compare posts via TAGS?
It should be quite easy to incorporate.

Best regards,
Christian / Hejven.se
# R. MAK.on 23 Oct 2009 at 4:32 am

I will release the next version soon. I would try to incorporate your suggestion in that
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# Brett Aquilaon 29 Oct 2009 at 9:11 am

I just installed this on WP 2.8.5 and it’s working exactly as it should. I’m pleased with it. I was able to customize the look and function in the options admin quite easily.

This is not a complex plugin with 1000 options. It’s simple – it lists as many related posts as you would like it to list with thumbnails included. It uses a very simple table layout as a template which you can easily customize to your heart’s desire.

If you’re looking for a thousand different options for how it determines related posts, different weightings to different fields, customizations for certain pages and posts and all that – this is not the plugin for you.

If you would like a plugin that is simple to install, works right out of the box, and has a markup/templating system that is easy to customize, then this plugin will do a great job.

I simply wanted a plugin that lists similar posts that would function well right out of the box that I could easily customize the look of to match my site – and this plugin did exactly that.

I would also agree with above comments that adding Tags as another consideration would be key. But otherwise, it’s doing a fine job.

Great job! Thank you!!!!
# Rudolfon 02 Nov 2009 at 6:08 am

@Brett Aquila, I couldn’t agree more. This is a great plugin, thanks to its simplicity.
# Anwaron 06 Nov 2009 at 4:27 pm

Hi. It would seem that the reason this plugin will not display images some of the time is because it will only recognizes gif. and not jpegs. I have put together an artist blog and that seems to be the problem concerning images as most of my images are jpeg..
# guidoon 09 Nov 2009 at 11:14 am

Fantastic, it is what I was looking for.
Great job
Thank you
# Brett Aquilaon 09 Nov 2009 at 7:21 pm

@Anwar – that’s not true. All of my images are jpeg and they show up just fine. Check out my site to see it working.
# mrititoon 10 Nov 2009 at 4:36 am

hi i have installled and im getting No results using wordpress 2.8.5
how to fix it tnx
# MXVon 17 Nov 2009 at 6:00 pm

Love the plugin, just one question/request:

Is there a way to exclude a category you don’t want it to pick posts from?

Thanks!
# Larryon 23 Nov 2009 at 11:10 am

I would like to filter out a specific page so it does not show up in the results. Can anyone post how to add this to the plugin.php file?
# Watch Online Serieson 23 Dec 2009 at 6:27 am

hi there, i used this plugin. it work perfectly at first but now, it seems like the thumbnail is not showing. any idea why?
# jhoon 24 Dec 2009 at 2:48 pm

I like to include the date creation of the post. How can I do that?

Thanks in advance for any help.
# Kimberleyon 27 Dec 2009 at 9:04 am

I just installed your plugin after trying many others and it is great, however I use images that are not square in my posts, but would like them to show up as square images in the related posts section. I know someone else asked how to do this or if it is possible some time ago, but it was never answered. Is it possible without having to change all of my image sizes in my posts? Thanks, and great job on this plugin!
# shoaibon 01 Jan 2010 at 11:31 am

why is this plugin not pulling any images,else it works like a charm thnx .
# Danon 02 Jan 2010 at 11:20 am

Great plugin! But please please can you help, in my site I use a custom field titled “thumb” to show the image of a post which is displayed on the homepage slider and in the post itself. is there anyway the plugin can show images from the custom field?

Thanks!
# Richon 05 Jan 2010 at 11:57 pm

I’m getting “No Results”.
I just installed WP 2.9.1. Is this the problem?
# ajayon 06 Jan 2010 at 3:06 am

yeah working this plug in is good. and with those tips it is more easy to use.
# luleon 15 Jan 2010 at 7:58 pm

There are a lot of posts without “first image”. So how to set a default picture for all of these?
# Denizon 01 Feb 2010 at 6:54 pm

how can we edit it for validation xhtml ?
# chipon 03 Feb 2010 at 4:12 pm

hi – nice plugin!

couple issues: the thumbnails are not always showing and the text underneath the thumbs is one word per line so it stretches long and looks funny.

any ideas?
# Maos Padon 04 Feb 2010 at 9:31 pm

Hi! nice plugin here.. have a question tough, does it require a manual installing like the ordinary related post plugin by wasabi? thanks!
# sean brennanon 09 Feb 2010 at 2:56 am

PS – Also seeing problem chip mentions about title showing one word per line – but ONLY IN EXPLORER. Looks lovely in Firefox.
# Mariaon 13 Feb 2010 at 3:14 pm

Thanks for the effort, but I had to uninstall it as it kept telling ‘No results’ for all my 30 posts.
# sean brennanon 17 Feb 2010 at 3:25 pm

left a comment a few weeks ago asking if there was any way to get the plug-in to recognize thumbnails saved by YouTube Thumbnailer?

Also had asked about some posts that were displaying some thumbnails differently (one thumbnail would be a tiny empty box about 5 pixels wide by 10 pixels tall, but 3 others displaying normally next to it) I had included a link to an example but it might have trigger a spam program so I won’t do that again.

I also said I was having same problem Chip mentions above with text under thumbnails showing 1 word per line – but only in Internet Explorer – the headline text looks fine in firefox.
# Kerenon 23 Feb 2010 at 1:50 pm

It does not save my settings from some reason.
I cannot change the number of max related posts. any ideas why?

options.php is writable
# Adamon 02 Mar 2010 at 12:58 am

Can i remove the link of your page in the end. “Grab This Plugin”. Is this allowed by you Mr. Owner or i cannot do it. By the way i really appreciate your work.
# Club Penguinon 06 Mar 2010 at 12:10 pm

I like this plugin a lot.
# R. MAK.on 07 Mar 2010 at 3:00 am

You are not allowed to remove it… It is how I get paid for my work… just a link back.. no money
# Shubhamon 07 Mar 2010 at 11:22 pm

that’s great…i was looking for a horizontal post plugin…Thanks..!
# Leiweion 16 Mar 2010 at 4:28 am

Any idea if there will be an updated version of this? I click on the link to the download page on wordpress above and it shows

# Version: 1.0.5
# Other Versions »
# Last Updated: 2009-9-2
# Requires WordPress Version: 2.3 or higher
# Compatible up to: 2.8.4

AFAIK wordpress is at 2.9.2 now
# Dominikon 24 Mar 2010 at 5:07 pm

Hi,
I think your plugin does not work with PHP 5.3.0 and up.
# aquiles candoon 15 Apr 2010 at 6:51 pm

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# mobile appson 16 Apr 2010 at 12:03 pm

its great plugin i was looking for ..

just simple install and get related post auctomacly with related thumbnail

great thankz
# adminon 25 Apr 2010 at 9:18 am

awesome plugin, but the alignment of the title and the excerpt goes for a toss when seen in Internet Explorer 8? Can you please help me to fix this issue?

Thanks!
# mahmoudon 28 Apr 2010 at 5:19 am

i like it but ….
does it work with wordpress 2.9.2 ???????????????????????????
# Cisoon 10 May 2010 at 3:19 pm

Same problem here.
Will ever arrive a fix for Internet Explorer 8?
# Tomon 04 Jun 2010 at 11:00 am

PROBLEM!
Works fine for posts that have ONE image before any text. But if there is text, then image and more text, it will not render any image, also, if there are several images in a post, it will not display any image. Please have script retrieve ALL image tags from a post, and then select a random image to display. Anyway, good work, and have the image tag retrieve script updated ASAP! thanks! ;p
# bayuon 13 Jun 2010 at 8:08 pm

Hi
I install this plugin in http://fokkerradio.com
it’s wallpaper blog
I want to place image only in the related post
then I edit the code like this

why there is no image in the related post?
please help me
# Notebook Toshibaon 14 Jun 2010 at 9:48 pm

Dude… thanks very much! as u were I was completly frustrated with other plugins about related posts! Mainly cause thumbs never worked fine!
# mikeon 25 Jun 2010 at 3:23 am

I have the same problem as TOM,
Works fine for posts that have ONE image before any text. But if there is text, then image and more text, it will not render any image, also, if there are several images in a post, it will not display any image.
No thumbnail in post having text / than image / text /images … any random way to extract the images instead of extracing the first images .. hope this will be solved soon .. Thanks
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# Cindyon 01 Jul 2010 at 10:38 am

This plugin didnt work for me either.. it did only the first time, but then again I’m seeing this symbol ‘/’ across all the code. I’m not sure but it might not be compatible with wordpress 3.0… and the links dont take it to their respective posts, it says its not found. The images are broken as well.
# Andimazlanon 05 Jul 2010 at 1:23 am

Hi I’ve tried it. But can’t work. Thanks anyway. Maybe the wrong is on my side. Keep up the good work.
# Nicoon 09 Aug 2010 at 12:02 pm

Hi there, can you please reply to me directly with an answer to my question of last night. I need to know how to remove this plugin without breaking my theme css.

It seems that you have included something in this plugin that makes it extremely difficult to remove.

Your attention is greatly appreciated.

Nico
# Roberton 16 Aug 2010 at 9:45 pm

The thumbs don;t show up?

can some one help?
# Lou Sparxon 20 Aug 2010 at 7:52 am

Doesn’t work with 3.0/+

Adds extra “/” to all codes.
# buzzon 19 Nov 2010 at 9:09 am

Hi all,

I have already “No results” when I use this plugin.
Someone have a tip for me ?

And Lou Sparx, can you explain me where I must add “/” please ?
I am a beginer to wordpress.
# dr_zombieon 28 Dec 2010 at 5:12 am

Hi !
Great plugin, but I need to change the sentence in english “You might also like” freely to french language.
Is it possible ?
And where must I do the change ? In which file ?

thanks in advance,

best regards from France.
# Notebook Dellon 17 Jan 2011 at 12:20 pm

I´ve ben searching long time for a related post for WordPress, and finally it works, thanks to you.
Do know how other plugins are so difficult to improve best results.
Very recomended.
# Headline Newson 03 Feb 2011 at 9:33 am

Finally, an issue that I am passionate about. I have looked for information of this caliber for the last several hours.
# moon 04 Feb 2011 at 2:14 am

thnks for plugin
# Beachbumon 20 Feb 2011 at 1:45 pm

Great plugin. I use it on a bunch of sites.

However there was one thing missing for me, wordTube thumbnails.

After a long time of experimenting I finally got some code to work to do it

added after line 104:

$content = $r->post_content;
$wordtubeshortcode = stripos($content, “[media");

added after the stripos post_content;
$matches = array();
$pattern = "/\[media id=(\d+)\]/”;
preg_match( $pattern, $html, $matches );
$wordtubeId = $matches['1'];
$image = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT image FROM $wpdb->wordtube WHERE vid = $wordtubeId;”));
}

It is working fine, but I’m sure it could be improved.
I would love to see this functionality in a future release of the plugin.

Cheers
# vinitaon 02 Mar 2011 at 11:46 pm

My blog is in two language. It is working fine for English post but for Chinese post it shows no results. How can i fix this problem? Please help.

Thanks in advance,
# jibranon 05 Mar 2011 at 10:45 am

wonderful that plugin is really great. i just use it and its awesome.
thakns buddy for such a nice tip
and i am looking for more advices from you
# kashon 05 Mar 2011 at 10:48 am

thanks for this great plugin
# Gadget Reviewon 10 Mar 2011 at 11:11 am

Hi, i’m interested with your related post plugin, my question, is this plugin compatible with WP 3.1?
# berita hari inion 20 Mar 2011 at 11:24 pm

whether this plugin can be applied to sidebar?
# gauravon 26 Mar 2011 at 1:45 am

nice plugin thanks for sharing
but i want plugin which have only image and gallery
how fix that plugin
please help……………..
# el 92on 13 Apr 2011 at 4:00 pm

Thanks for share this great plugin…
# lawn dresseson 16 Apr 2011 at 2:59 pm

thanks this plugin is best for seo also
# rootetoon 03 May 2011 at 1:01 am

Plugin delete!

Can you take care of the problem?
# Allisonon 12 May 2011 at 6:08 am

Thanks for the plugin! It works great other than the fact the thumbnails aren’t showing up (no images). Just the text/links. Any idea on how to correct this?
# MAKon 28 May 2011 at 6:14 pm

We have just updated it for IE 6+ . It works on all wordpress inculding mu versions.
# Techpremon 29 Aug 2011 at 11:35 am

Thnx for the Plugin…
# abhishekon 07 Nov 2011 at 10:15 am

I want to remove this plugin , as its not able to display mutli row post , I want to display 10 related post in 2 rows , how can I do this ?? Other thing is when ever I disable this my my blog’s sidebar and footer doesnt gets displayed , how can I remove this without causing problem to side bar and footer ???
# Hanson 18 Nov 2011 at 9:55 am

Why was it removed from wordpress.org!?
# Ramalan Bintangon 06 Dec 2011 at 12:16 pm

Great thanks
# Pakistani Videoson 17 Dec 2011 at 7:19 pm

Amazing plugin…loved it alot…. thanks for briefing it..
# asimon 14 Jan 2012 at 5:49 pm

Anyone? who have used this plugin as to show thumbnails in a wallpaper-type site?
# kaWaon 09 Feb 2012 at 6:11 pm

Thank you for this great plugin !
Just one question, what line do I have to add to exclude some categories of the results?
Thank in advance
# R. MAK.on 10 Apr 2012 at 6:21 pm

I don’t know. they refu
# related posts by titleon 26 Apr 2012 at 2:04 am

does any one can give me a related posts by title plugin
i searched for and found this
any one try it??
is it ok?
download link from wordpress.org:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-posts-list-grid-and-slider-all-in-one/