WZ Followed Posts – Display what visitors are reading vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

This plugin has been retired. Version 3.4.0 is the final release. Version 3.4.0 adds a CSV export of your followed posts data, so you can take it with you, plus tools to delete that data or remove the plugin cleanly. Export anything you want to keep before you remove it. Existing installs will keep working, but there will be no further updates or support. For content recommendations, I suggest one of my other plugins instead: Contextual Related Posts recommends posts based on title and content relevance. Top 10 tracks page views and displays your most popular posts. Both are actively developed and cover the same goal of keeping visitors on your site. Have you seen Amazon’s product pages? Amazon is a great example of visitor retention through recommendations. All of Amazon’s pages have a “Customers who viewed this item also viewed”. And how many times have you clicked those links? I know I have! Now you can implement the same feature on your WordPress blog. WebberZone Followed Posts let’s you show “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” links on your page. The plugin tracks the pages, posts and custom post types that visitors click through from the current post. You can then display these followed posts automatically at the bottom of your posts, using a shortcode or via the inbuilt widget. If you’re looking for a plugin that displays posts related to the content, look no further than Contextual Related Posts. Key features Automatic: The plugin will start displaying visited posts on your posts and pages automatically after the content when you activate the plugin Block editor support: Easy to use block for the block editor. Find it under widgets or using “followed posts” or “where did they go from here” Shortcode: Use [wfp] to display the followed posts Multi-Widget support: Find the Followed posts widget to display the posts in your theme’s sidebar or any other area that supports widgets. You can use the widget multiple times with different settings for each Manual install: Want more control over placement? Check the FAQ on which functions are available for manual install Exclusions: Exclude select posts and pages from the list of posts. Exclude posts from select categories from the list of posts Supports all post types: The visited posts list lets you include posts, pages, attachments or any other custom post type! Styles: The output is wrapped in CSS classes which allows you to easily style the list. You can enter your custom CSS styles from within WordPress Admin area Customizable and extendable: Extendable via filters and actions. Style with CSS or use the inbuilt plugin API Thumbnail support: Display thumbnails as well as text. The plugin tries multiple methods to fetch a thumbnail or you can even specify a default one Plugins by WebberZone Contextual Related Posts – Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed Top 10 – Track daily and total visits to your blog posts and display the popular and trending posts Better Search – Enhance the default WordPress search with contextual results sorted by relevance Knowledge Base – Create a knowledge base or FAQ section on your WordPress site WebberZone Snippetz – Manage custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript snippets Auto-Close – Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks and manage revisions on your WordPress site Popular Authors – Calculate and display popular authors WebberZone Link Warnings – Add accessible warnings for external links and target=”_blank” links

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