Related Posts Widget shows a list of posts with similar tags to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. That is, it is only shown when is_single() returns true.
Features:
- Support for displaying thumbnail images via WP 2.9′s new post thumbnail feature.
- Set how many posts to show.
- 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.
- Option to make the widget title link to the category page.
- Multiple widgets.
Great widget! Does exactly what I was looking for in a simple and elegant way.
Just one little bug for you – the ‘Number of Posts’ option wasn’t working. It looks like you are using the id ‘num’ to store the value but on line 57 when you set the showposts argument you use the id ‘num_posts’. I changed that just to ‘num’ and it works.
Cheers & thanks for sharing the widget!
I downloaded it – am looking for exactly this but it won’t work. It isn’t showing anything in teh sidebar. The url is http://desperatelyseekingwp.com
Thanks for creating this plugin!
This is exactly what I have been looking for, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work with the latest version of WordPress.
Not working for me either. I have 2 articles on Amelia Earhart and neither of them are being picked up by this plugin. Hope we can get this fixed as I believe this has the potential to be a great plugin.
Disregard. Its working fine
It doesn’t help me at all if you just say “it doesn’t work”. Tell me what you think doesn’t work so that I know what to fix.
@James: Nothing shows up when you activate it.
Stefan, It only shows up when you’re viewing a single post.
No, nothing shows up on my single posts even though I activate the plugin and add it as a widget.
Maybe something changed in the latest version of WordPress.
The only other possibility I can think of is that your posts don’t have any shared tags. The plugin works by searching for other posts that have at least one tag in common with the current post.
Thanks a lot
Just wondering how i can inter-grate this plug-in with simple thumbs. Has anyone done it and are willing to share. I can't get the thumbs to show
it doesnt seem to work with wordpress
In the widget setting surface of this plugin, I couldn't see anything about thumbnail. What's up?
WP 2.9.2