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Contextual Related Posts
Keep visitors on your site longer with intelligent, fast-loading, contextually related posts. Block, shortcode, custom post type and widget ready.
- Installs
- 50,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (201)
- Updated
- 15 days ago
YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
The best WordPress plugin for displaying related posts. Simple and flexible, with a powerful proven algorithm and inbuilt caching.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #406 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 8M
- 8,011,598
- Downloads, 30 days
- 13.3K
- 3.9K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,165 reviews
- Last updated
- 24 months ago
- Nov 11, 2024
- Version
- 5.30.11
- 253 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | November 11, 2024Not updated for over a year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.7.11Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 3.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.3 or newer |
| First published | January 2, 2008 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 1,165 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,051 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 57 |
| 3 stars | 15 |
| 2 stars | 7 |
| 1 star | 35 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
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
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Many pages list “no related posts.”
Most likely you have “no related posts” right now because the default “match threshold” is too high. Here’s what we recommend to find an appropriate match threshold: lower your match threshold in the YARPP “Algorithm” options to something very low, like 1.
How can I limit related posts to a certain time frame? For instance, I don’t want to show posts from two years ago.
In WordPress, go to “Settings” and “Related Posts (YARPP)” and make sure “The Pool” is checked in the “Screen Options” section at the top of the page. In “The Pool” section, check the box next to “Show only posts from the past X months.”
Where do I tell YARPP to display related posts only by tags?
In WordPress, go to “Settings” and “YARPP” and make sure “Algorithm” is checked in the “Screen Options” section at the top of the page. In the “Algorithm” section, configure the dropdown boxes next to “Titles,” “Bodies,” “Categories,” and “Tags.”
Can I manually specify related posts?
Sorry, but specifying related posts, displaying related posts from external WordPress sites, and pulling content from the Comments section are all outside the scope of YARPP at this time.
I’m seeing related posts displayed on the home page. How do I prevent that?
Some WordPress themes treat the home page as an archive or a “page.” Go to “Settings” then “Related Posts (YARPP)” and view the “Automatic Display Options” section. Make sure “Pages” and “Also display in archives” are not checked.
How can I prevent the “related posts” list from displaying on specific posts?
Option 1:
On the edit post page, uncheck “Display Related Posts” in the YARPP box. Be sure to update or publish to save your changes.
Option 2:
Add <!--noyarpp--> to the HTML code of any post to prevent related posts from displaying.
Option 3:
Use the noyarpp filter. For example:
Latest changelog entry
- Bugfix: Resolves minor Unauthenticated Broken Access Control bug
- Tested on WordPress 6.7
Screenshots
YARPP options in WP-Admin: Automatic Display Options 
YARPP options in WP-Admin: "The Pool" settings 
YARPP options in WP-Admin: "The Algorithm" settings 
Example - YARPP on starwars.com
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.