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, …)
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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
How do I prevent “pages” from appearing? I just want “posts” to be displayed.
I will fix this in next update.. I am working on this
Added it using post layout plugin. It always shows “No results”, however I have 5 posts with very similar titles, same categories and tags.
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.
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
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 ?
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
This is a great plugin! But as with Smirk, it always shows “No Results”, and of course I have many similar articles.
Just updated the newest version. Getting no results error. Do I need to make the above change?
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.
Sorry for the trouble folks!
Just released the update 1.0.5 with the fix to above issues..
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.
THANKS a lot ! It works again
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?
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
I changed <td valign="top" to <td style="vertical-align: top" and it aligns the top of the images.
It’s cool plugin and works, previously the plugin wasn’t work, but after update automatically, it’s work. thanks..
Cool thing about this plugin is that you can format it how you like
thanks for your tip
for next update, I will keep your suggestion mind. thanks for checking this out
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
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.
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!
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
Hi, this is a great plugin. One question…
How to avoid that some posts are displayed?
I found this plug-in by mistake and have to say it’s amazing! Thank you!
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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installed plugin — but only the text appears — no images. Any idea what is going on? I am using WP 2.8.4. Thanks!
Do you have image on your site?
Great Plugin. Thanks. I am using it in my new site.
Wow! Took less than 3 minutes to get it installed and working perfectly. Thanks for such a great plugin. Keep up the good work!
Just want to praise your efforts, and say keep on..regards
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
This is an amazing plugin. Thanks for putting it out there.
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.
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…
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!!
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!!
It’s the best in this type of plugin I’ve tried linkwithin, thumbie but I found this is the best. Thanks a lot
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
I will release the next version soon. I would try to incorporate your suggestion in that
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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!!!!
@Brett Aquila, I couldn’t agree more. This is a great plugin, thanks to its simplicity.
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..
Fantastic, it is what I was looking for.
Great job
Thank you
@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.
hi i have installled and im getting No results using wordpress 2.8.5
how to fix it tnx
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!
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?
hi there, i used this plugin. it work perfectly at first but now, it seems like the thumbnail is not showing. any idea why?
I like to include the date creation of the post. How can I do that?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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!
why is this plugin not pulling any images,else it works like a charm thnx .
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!
I’m getting “No Results”.
I just installed WP 2.9.1. Is this the problem?
yeah working this plug in is good. and with those tips it is more easy to use.
There are a lot of posts without “first image”. So how to set a default picture for all of these?
how can we edit it for validation xhtml ?
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?