Contextual Related Posts WordPress Plugin
Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed. Supports thumbnails, shortcodes, widgets and custom post types!
Contextual Related Posts is a powerful plugin for WordPress that allows you to display a list of related posts on your website and in your feed.
The list is based on the content of the title and/or content of the posts which makes them more relevant and more likely to be of interest to your readers. This allows you to retain visitors, reduce bounce rates and refresh old entries.
Although several similar plugins exist today, Contextual Related Posts is one of the most feature rich plugins with support for thumbnails, shortcodes, widgets, custom post types and CSS styles. The inbuilt cache ensures that you have related posts without excessive load on your server.
And the default inbuilt styles allow you to switch between gorgeous thumbnail-rich related posts or a similar text di
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Usage of Contextual Related Posts over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 4 053 to 3 534 — down 519 (-12.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 3 534 | -109 |
| June 2024 | 3 643 | -20 |
| May 2024 | 3 663 | +16 |
| April 2024 | 3 647 | +13 |
| March 2024 | 3 634 | -126 |
| February 2024 | 3 760 | -37 |
| January 2024 | 3 797 | -192 |
| December 2023 | 3 989 | +50 |
| November 2023 | 3 939 | +6 |
| October 2023 | 3 933 | -82 |
| September 2023 | 4 015 | +4 |
| August 2023 | 4 011 | -32 |
| July 2023 | 4 043 | -10 |
| June 2023 | 4 053 | — |
Themes used with Contextual Related Posts
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Generatepress |
| 3 | Twentyfifteen |
| 4 | Twentytwelve |
| 5 | Divi |
| 6 | Astra |
| 7 | Twentyeleven |
| 8 | Twentyfourteen |
| 9 | Iconic-one |
| 10 | Magazine-pro |
| 11 | Graphene |
| 12 | Twentythirteen |
| 13 | Mh-magazine-lite |
| 14 | Avada |
| 15 | Hueman |
| 16 | U-design |
| 17 | Responsive |
| 18 | Theworld |
| 19 | Headway |
| 20 | Sahifa |
Sites running Contextual Related Posts
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