Custom Related Posts

Description

Custom Related Posts is a user friendly plugin for manually adding related posts to any of your posts, pages or custom post types. You have full control over those related links, choosing for yourself if they go both ways.

An overview of the features:

  • Set which post types the plugin is active for yourself
  • Easily define relations in one or both ways on the post edit page
  • Display related posts with a shortcode, widget or block
  • Optionally show featured images in any size
  • Import from XML using post IDs
  • Compatible with the Classic Editor and Gutenberg Block Editor

Need help?
Check out our documentation!

This plugin is under active development. Any feature requests are welcome!

Screenshots

  • The Custom Related Posts block and plugin sidebar
  • Add relations by searching for posts

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Custom Related Posts

Installation

  1. Upload the custom-related-posts directory (directory included) to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Check out our getting started documentation

FAQ

Do you offer any support?

Yes! We pride ourselves on offering awesome support and almost always answer support questions within 24 hours. Send us an email at support@bootstrapped.ventures whenever you have a question or suggestion!

Reviews

March 13, 2024
I have used this plugin for more than 3 years now and I am very pleased with it. I don't want a plugin that chooses compatible posts itself, thus slowing my page down. Rather I want one where I can do the choosing and the plugin puts it on the page with minimum fuss. Which is exactly what this plugin does. What's more, when I had a minor layout issue, and ask for support, I got a quick answer that resolved the issue. So thanks for a useful plugin that simply works.
October 3, 2023
Simple and light, it is all I need for my project. The Gutenberg integration is pretty cool and UI is easy to work with. Thank you.
June 1, 2023
I want to control the links as needed. This plugin provides that functionality with a simple implementation.It is a bit basic in appearance, but with a bit of CSS work, you can make it look as you want quite easily.
March 20, 2023
It is a good plugin, simple and objective, but, the HTML is not encapsulated, the title is out of markup, this made my formatting a bit more complex.
January 8, 2023 2 replies
Thank you for plugin and documentation!P.S. but add wrapper div ;)div.crp-list-wrapper- h3.crp-list-title- div.crp-list
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Contributors & Developers

“Custom Related Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.7.2

  • Fix: Block editor error if related post is broken

1.7.1

  • Fix: Prevent deprecation warning

1.7.0

  • Feature: Manually set order for related posts (Block Editor only)
  • Feature: Setting to disable pinning of related posts images
  • Improvement: Image responsive sizing in some situations
  • Fix: Prevent PHP 8 deprecation notice related to usort

1.6.6

  • Fix: Block editor preview broken in WordPress 5.8

1.6.5

  • Fix: Problem when unpinning CRP sidebar in Gutenberg

1.6.4

  • Fix: Allow removing of relations to permanently deleted posts

1.6.3

  • Fix: Prevent PHP notice in WordPress 5.5

1.6.2

  • Feature: Limit by post type when searching for relations

1.6.1

  • Feature: Thumbnails in output are links as well
  • Improvement: Bring back shortcode button for TinyMCE
  • Fix: Class name error for list item title
  • Fix: PHP notice for missing variable

1.6.0

  • Feature: Show featured image for related posts
  • Feature: Setting to disable relation caching
  • Improvement: New settings page
  • Improvement: Filter hook for search arguments
  • Fix: Deleting related post to post type that has been disabled

1.5.1

  • Fix: Relations not loading correctly in Gutenberg

1.5.0

  • Feature: Gutenberg compatibility

1.4.1

  • Fix: PHP 7 Warning

1.4

  • Feature: Setting to open links in a new tab
  • Improvement: WordPress 4.8 compatibility
  • Improvement: $relation variable available in plugin hook

1.3

  • Improvement: Settings for searching related posts

1.2

  • Fix: Firefox compatibility problem

1.1

  • Feature: Import relations from XML

1.0

  • Very first version of this plugin