Same Category Posts WordPress Plugin
Adds a widget that shows posts from the same category to the current post.
Same Category Posts shows a list of same posts to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. Forked from Related Posts Widget.
Features
- Option to show post thumbnail & set dimension by width & height.
- Option to put thumbnail on top.
- Option to change ordering of posts.
- Set how many posts to show.
- Placeholder in title string.
- Option to make the widget title link to the category page.
- Option to show/hide the title.
- Option exclude a category.
- Option exclude current post.
- Option to show the post excerpt and how long the excerpt should be.
- Option to show the post date.
- Option to show the comment count.
- Multiple widgets.
Placeholder
post list
recent posts
related posts
same category
similar posts
Sites running Same Category Posts, click to open one
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Usage of Same Category Posts over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 122 to 205 — up 83 (+68%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 205 | -4 |
| June 2024 | 209 | +2 |
| May 2024 | 207 | +3 |
| April 2024 | 204 | +5 |
| March 2024 | 199 | +9 |
| February 2024 | 190 | +6 |
| January 2024 | 184 | +5 |
| December 2023 | 179 | +13 |
| November 2023 | 166 | +6 |
| October 2023 | 160 | +4 |
| September 2023 | 156 | +18 |
| August 2023 | 138 | +2 |
| July 2023 | 136 | +14 |
| June 2023 | 122 | — |
Themes used with Same Category Posts
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Divi |
| 2 | Generatepress |
| 3 | Doeren-mayhew |
| 4 | Astra |
| 5 | Genesis |
| 6 | Newspaper |
| 7 | Total |
| 8 | Aspire-pro |
| 9 | Bridge |
| 10 | Hello-elementor |
| 11 | Twentysixteen |
| 12 | Enfold |
| 13 | Hueman-pro |
| 14 | Spike |
| 15 | Bosa |
| 16 | Keni80_wp_standard_all_202002112103 |
| 17 | Child-hueman |
| 18 | Sahifa |
| 19 | Divi-child |
| 20 | X |
Sites running Same Category Posts
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