ElasticPress vs Related Posts by Taxonomy

ElasticPress, a fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress, enables WordPress to find or “query” relevant content extremely fast through a variety of highly customizable features. WordPress out-of-the-box struggles to analyze content relevancy and can be very slow. ElasticPress supercharges your WordPress website making for happier users and administrators. The plugin even contains features for popular plugins. Here is a list of the amazing ElasticPress features included in the plugin: Search: Instantly find the content you’re looking for. The first time. Instant Results: A built for WordPress search experience that bypasses WordPress for optimal performance. Instant Results routes search queries through a dedicated API, separate from WordPress, returning results up to 10x faster than previous versions of ElasticPress. WooCommerce: With ElasticPress, filtering WooCommerce product results is fast and easy. Your customers can find and buy exactly what they’re looking for, even if you have a large or complex product catalog. Related Posts: ElasticPress understands data in real time, so it can instantly deliver engaging and precise related content with no impact on site performance. Protected Content: Optionally index all of your content, including private and unpublished content, to speed up searches and queries in places like the administrative dashboard. Documents: Indexes text inside of popular file types, and adds those files types to search results. Autosuggest: Suggest relevant content as text is entered into the search field. Filters: Add controls to your website to filter content by one or more taxonomies. Comments: Indexes your comments and provides a widget with type-ahead search functionality. It works with WooCommerce product reviews out-of-the-box.

Quickly increase your readers’ engagement by adding related posts in the sidebar or after post content with a widget or shortcode. Posts with the most terms in common will display at the top! This plugin is capable of finding related posts in multiple taxonomies and post types. Include or exclude terms from the search for related posts. Change the look and feel by using your own templates in a (child) theme. plugin documentation Plugin features: Widget and Shortcode. Display related posts as post thumbnails, links, excerpts or full posts. Small Footprint. Doesn’t slow down your site! Automatic display of related posts after the post content. Exclude or include terms and posts. Search for related posts in single or multiple taxonomies and post types. Limit the search for related posts by date, number or post meta. Use your own HTML templates for display of the related posts. Extensive plugin documentation. Follows WordPress coding standards and plugin best practices. Highly Adjustable! For the following features you need to be somewhat familiar with WordPress hooks. The plugin documentation has many examples to help you along. Extended features: Use a persistent cache for the related posts query. (opt-in feature) Use the WordPress REST API to get related posts. (opt-in feature) Load related posts after the whole page has loaded (with Ajax). (opt-in feature) Use plugin functions in your theme templates to display related posts yourself. Use Filters to change the default behavior of the plugin. Follow this plugin on GitHub. Search the code reference See the FAQ to have related posts automatically display after the post content without using the shortcode or widget. Default usage for the shortcode is: [related_posts_by_tax] Attributes for the shortcode are: post_id taxonomies post_types posts_per_page order orderby before_shortcode after_shortcode title show_date before_title after_title include_terms include_parents include_children exclude_terms exclude_posts format gallery_format image_size columns caption link_caption limit_posts limit_month meta_key meta_value meta_compare meta_type public_only include_self post_class Example to show 10 related posts instead of the default 5. [related_posts_by_tax posts_per_page="10"] See the documentation for more information about these attributes. Translations Dutch French (by Annie Stasse) Spanish (by Ludobooks – Cuentos personalizados) Catalan (by Ludobooks – Cuentos personalizados) Polish (by koda0601)