Category Posts Widget vs YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. Term and Category based Posts Widget A premium version of that free widget available at tiptoppress.com created for big WordPress sites. Premium features Auto-sizing Grid layout Custom field support in the Template Shortcode support in the Template Image-Slider (or News-Ticker) Asymmetrical list layouts Full background images Masonry responsive grid layout More complex filter (ANY, NOT, AND, …) Custom Post Types, Events, Products support All free features E-Mail support More examples on the demo pages Features Template to arrange the post details. The Template text can be a post details placeholder, plain text, HTML or a font-icons. Font-icon support. ‘Load more’ button / Ajax API Item Title heading level buttons Excerpt length and item title in lines (line-clamp) Shortcode (Easily change all Shortcode options in the customizer). Date range filter New date format: Time since plublished Filter by post status: Published, scheduled, private. Multiple shortcodes at the same site or post. Add option for post offset (use two or more widgets after another). Admin UI: Buttons in the editor toolbar to insert shortcode. Option to touch device friendly “everything is a link”. For editing shortcode adds a Customizer link to the admin-bar (“With one click to the Customizer”). Set thumbnail width & height / image crop with CSS (object-fit). Fluid images (max-width in %). One thumb dimension can be left empty. Option to set mouse hover effects for post thumbnail. Set a default thumbnail. Hide widget text or text, if there is no post. Option to hide posts which have no thumbnail. Option exclude current post. Option show post author, comment’s count, post date. Admin UI: Set / find thumbnail size buttons: +, ¼, ½, 2x, -, ratio and Media sizes Admin UI: Buttons to easy add post details placeholder. Multi sites support. Documentation Full documentation Shortcode: Use [catposts] in the content and edit in the customizer Formatting date and time: See Formatting Date and Time Contribute While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at Github (If possible with a pull request).

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) is a professionally maintained, highly customizable, performant and feature rich plugin that displays pages, posts, and custom post types related to the current entry. YARPP introduces your visitors to other relevant content on your site — boosting visitor engagement, time on site and SEO. Related Posts can increase your pageviews up to 10%. Simply install, activate and watch your sessions and pageviews increase. Key Features An advanced and versatile algorithm: Using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, categories, and custom taxonomies, YARPP finds related content from across your site Caching: Inbuilt cache makes subsequent queries super efficient and fast Custom Templates and Styles: Use a pre-built list or thumbnail template, or use the YARPP custom templating system for 100% control of how results are styles and displayed Flexible with a full range of placement options, including: Automatic Display Options (pick where to show YARPP from the YARPP settings page) RSS/Feed Options Block Editor (Gutenberg) [yarpp] Shortcode Widget YARPP functions() REST API Works with all languages, including those with full-width (double-byte) characters and those that don’t use spaces between words Custom post type and taxonomy support WordPress Multisite support bbPress forums support WooCommerce support Professionally maintained and supported with regular updates YARPP Algorithm Explained Contribute: Translate YARPP YARPP is available for translation directly on WordPress.org. Please check out the official Translator Handbook. Wide Support YARPP is the most popular and the highest rated Related Posts Plugin for WordPress. With your support, this plugin always strives to be the best WordPress plugin for Content Discovery and Related Posts. ✔ Over 10 years of development ✔ Over 6 million downloads ✔ Translated into more than a dozen languages ✔ Professionally maintained and actively supported with regular updates ✔ Works with all languages YARPP works best with PHP 5.3 or greater, MySQL 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB 10.1 or greater, and WordPress 3.7 or greater. See the FAQ for answers to common questions.