Contextual Related Posts

Contextual Related Posts is a powerful WordPress plugin that displays fast, intelligent related posts to keep users on your site longer. Improve SEO, increase pageviews, and lower bounce rates — no setup needed.

Key features

• Activate and Forget: Activate the plugin. Contextual Related Posts automatically displays related posts on your site and in your feed after the content. There is no need to edit any template files.
• Custom Control with Manual Install: Want placement control? You have multiple options available:
  • Gutenberg / Block Editor support: You can easily add a “Related Posts [CRP]” block to any post or page with its options and settings.
  • Widgets: Add related posts to any widgetized theme area, such as the sidebar or footer. You can configure the widget options to suit your needs.
  • Shortcode: Use [crp] to display the related posts anywhere within the post content.

  Contextual Related Posts uses an intelligent algorithm that analyzes your post’s title and/or content to find the most related ones. This way, you can show your visitors more awesome content and keep them on your site longer.

  With Contextual Related Posts, you can quickly boost your site’s traffic, reduce bounce rates, and refresh old entries. It’s fast, flexible, and easy to use. Try it today and see the difference for yourself!

  Additional features include:

  • Exclusions: Exclude posts from specific categories or tags from being displayed in the related posts list.
  • Custom post types: The related posts list supports posts, pages, attachments, or any other custom post type on your site.
  • Thumbnail support: Display thumbnails or not!
  • Styles: The output of the related posts list is wrapped in CSS classes that allow you to style it easily using custom CSS code.
  • Customizable output: Display post excerpts in the related posts list. Customize the HTML tags and attributes used to display the output.
  • Extendable code: Many filters and actions allow developers to easily add features, modify outputs, or integrate with other plugins.

  MySQL FULLTEXT indices

  On activation, the plugin creates three MySQL FULLTEXT indices (or indexes), which are leveraged to find the related posts. Learn more about how the algorithm works.

  If you’re running a multisite installation, an index is created for each blog upon activation. These indices occupy space in your MySQL database but are essential for running the plugin.

  Two options on the settings page allow you to remove these indices when deactivating or deleting the plugin. The latter is true by default.

  💼 Features Exclusive to CRP Pro

  CRP Pro supercharges your related posts with advanced customization, better performance, and powerful content strategy tools.

  🚀 Performance Enhancements

  • Efficient Content Storage and Indexing: Speed up your site with optimized custom tables and efficient database indices for lightning-fast queries.
  • Cache Setting: Fine-tune your performance with configurable cache times from 1 hour to 1 year.
  • Server Load Threshold: Prevent CRP from running queries when the database is under heavy load.
  • Bot Protection: Skip CRP processing for known bots and crawlers using an extensible signature list, saving server resources.
  • Lazy Loading: Load related posts via JavaScript only when they are about to enter the viewport, speeding up the initial page load. Works across the content, shortcode, widget and block display methods and plays well with page caching plugins.

  🎯 Smarter Content Matching

  Read the full description on the official page →