WordPress Plugins is one of the main reason for the popularity of this awesome blogging platform. You can add so much functionality to your WordPress powered site with these plugins. Every website owner wants to increase the page views of their website. To increase the page views you need to engage your website visitors. You can engage your website visitors by showing them the content related to their interest. In WordPress you can do this by adding a related posts plugin to your blog/website. In this post I compiled a list of the best WordPress Related Posts Plugins to increase your website page views.
Related Posts
This WordPress plugin provides multiple options to show the via tags related posts of a post. It contains a sidebar widget that is only visible when viewing a single post and displays a list of posts that are related with the current post via the tags. The number of related posts to display can be configured. The posts are sorted by the number of matching tags and then by the post date. It is also possible to insert the list of related post in a post via a placeholder. You can also embedd the list of related post in template files to add it to the bottom of each post page.
Related Posts via Categories
This Plugin will display the related posts list via categories. It can automatically display the related posts list after the content of any single post of selected post types by options. There are many options for the display, order, exclusion and post-type selection. This plugin works when viewing a post of selected post types by options. This plugin requires jQuery 1.6 or higher.
SEO Auto Links & Related Posts
Automatically create auto link, related posts, and slide out related posts when user reach the end of article.
Wp-Thumbie – Related Posts with thumbnails for WordPress
Display a list of related posts along with thumbnail images of those posts for the current post. You can select the number of posts to be display on articles or on feed. You can choose to exclude posts from certain categories as well as exclude pages.
Search Engine Keywords Related Posts Widget
The Search Engine Keywords Related Posts Widget collects the query string from Google, Bing and Yahoo and extracts the keywords that the user used in his search. The widget then lists posts related to the search engine keywords. Since the search engines usually only show one result from your site, but there may be many pages that are related to the users search, this encourages surfers to browse through the posts related to their search. The widget is only visible when a user arrives through a Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and Baidu searches. Bookmarked users and users referred from other sites do not see the widget.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
Related Posts Slider
The slider is a lightweight jQuery implementation of the related post functionality. Apart from template tag, it has a ready shortcode and widget as well to insert the slider anywhere in the blog post.
Related Posts All in One – with Grid, slider and list styles
This plugin displaying related posts in a very great way to help visitors staying longer on your blog.
Related Posts Thumbnails
This plugin will add related posts thumbnails after the post. Plugin allows to customize thumbnail sizes, display settings and type of relation.
Author Recommended Posts
Author Recommended Posts lets you easily search and choose specific posts, pages and custom post types you want to associate to a post or page. You can add, reorder, remove selected posts for display via the simple drag and drop interface.
Loveish Kalsi
Loveish Kalsi is a freelance Web and Graphic Designer from India. He is the owner of famous design blog Creativedesignmagazine.com
