First released in January 2009, Contextual Related Posts has over 15 years of development behind it, making it a feature-rich plugin that gives you everything you need to add highly efficient and beautiful related posts to your site in minutes.

Beautiful Related Posts

• • Automatically display relevant posts from your site at the end of each post, page, or custom type.
  • Multiple different styles to match your theme or create your own with CSS.
  • Include the post’s featured image, date, author, and summary for more engagement.

Customisable

• Choose the number and order of the related posts.
• Exclude posts from categories or by ID from being displayed in the list.
• Additional settings to fine-tune your related posts.

Speedy

• In-built caching that loads the related posts efficiently.
• Choose to cache the posts or the entire HTML output.
• Works with other caching plugins.

Additional Features and Benefits
Plenty of options to make the plugin fit for your site.

• • Shortcode: Add the related posts with a powerful shortcode with a huge list of potential arguments.
  • Custom CSS Styles: You can easily change the display of the related posts by using your own custom styles.
  • Thumbnail Support: The plugin can use a custom image, featured image, or extract the first image of your post.
  • Customisable Output: Display author, excerpt, or date or change the HTML markup from the default ul and li tags.
  • Widget: If your theme supports it, then just drag and drop the widget into your sidebar or footer.
  • Block Editor Ready: You can find a block called “Related Posts [CRP]” with its own configurable set of options.
  • Custom API: Advanced users and developers can take advantage of the easy-to-use plugin API for custom layouts.
  • Developer Friendly: Contextual Related Posts has tonnes of actions, filters, and smart coding, making it a developer-friendly plugin.