The best WordPress plugins to display related posts in a professional manner

When you watch an episode of a program on YouTube, with a historical or religious title, for example, YouTube suggests to you subsequent clips on the same topic or in the same nature or field, so you watch in sequence and start opening clip after clip, so your wealth of knowledge about it increases, and you become more understanding of it. This is called (user interaction), which various sites strive for, regardless of their content and content. By the same principle as similar sections, article site owners work to show the reader relevant content to increase his connection and interaction with the site and keep him longer on the site. What do you gain from the user’s interaction with your site?

How can you achieve this?

What tools are used for this? We will answer these questions within this article.

The importance of user interaction with your site’s articles Why Who

What is important for the visitor to interact with your site? By reading at length or constantly browsing and sharing his opinions and impressions? User interaction with the site is measured by the number of clicks, views, and preferences, so through it you can understand the customer experience more based on these metrics, and thus it is easier for you to develop a special strategy to gain their satisfaction, and also through it you can build a relationship of trust between you and your customer, so your site becomes a reliable source of information, and thus makes it easier for you to sell your products later if you are the owner of a website and an online store, and by measuring user interaction you can know the most requested or visited articles or products and thus you can exploit them to display your ads, which are an excellent source of profit.

These benefits can be summarized in the following points: Showing old articles and renewing their display, because WordPress shows new articles first. Strengthening the reader’s relationship with your site, to provide you with all the information he needs about a topic, so he does not need to search another site to learn more about it. Reading an article and then leaving the site does not build a loyalty relationship between the reader and the site, so reasons must be provided that increase the reader’s stay on the site and thus increase his loyalty.

Some users face difficulty in accessing the required content, for whatever reason, and displaying related content solves this problem, through which visitors can access content that they do not find through direct search. Increasing the material and content read, heard, or viewed increases the reliability of your site and thus increases posts and interactions on it. Let us not forget that it is necessary to provide organized and actually useful content in the beginning so that you can benefit from this feature to the fullest and accrue these benefits to you.

So how can we do it to reap these returns? If you are the owner of a website on WordPress and you publish your educational, literary, or other articles, one of the most important ways through which you can improve user interaction is by suggesting relevant content, or showing the most popular and read articles on your site. We have previously talked in detail about how to publish the most popular articles, which allows you to publish your articles more widely and gives the visitor access to a greater number of your articles that are excluded due to their age. As for the tools used in this, they are add-ons; The easy, fast, and efficient solution to many of the features added to websites. Here we will present a number of these plugins with a simple analysis of them so that you can choose the best plugin that suits your site and your content: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – 1 We start with an addition that a number of WordPress users have agreed upon, which is a plugin (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin) installed by more than 100,000 users and rated with five stars by 661 people. It requires a version WordPress 3.7 or higher, and PHP version 3.5 or higher.

YARPP supports any type of visual, read, or audio content, and through it you can exclude specific content based on its category, for example, or the tags included in it, etc. One of its most important features is the easily customizable template system, through which you can display relevant content to the reader through thumbnails, and you can control the form of this display. The addition algorithm compares the title, tags, and category of the specific content with the rest of the content on the site, and sets a minimum level of matching, so that if other content on the site links to it, it is considered similar and related content and thus displays it to the visitor. You can modify this algorithm to have greater control over the interconnectedness of the site’s content, so you must have technical knowledge to modify and customize as you want, as it is not completely easy, and it is worth noting that you can add related content manually based on user behavior, for example, and their previous likes and preferences. 2 - Contextual Related Posts By WebberZone The second add-on on the list is (Contextual Related Posts By WebberZone), which is an add-on with a long list of features. It is characterized by flexibility and ease and does not require more than downloading and activating it, so that the work of linking the related content to each other begins immediately after activation. As for its flexibility, it is evident in the multiple ways of displaying the content, where you can display the related content using a custom template in the Gutenberg editor, through widgets, or via a shortcode.

You can also modify the code as you wish, in terms of editing the HTML tags used and adding custom CSS to style the displays, and if you have advanced developers, you can use the filters in the addition and edit it as you want. You can specify a specific number of articles suggested to the visitor so that the page design does not become distorted. You can also specify the places to display these suggestions on the page and add thumbnail images through the URL link to customize the image for the content, or just list the list of suggestions only. The add-on contains a cache that allows you to link articles together without excessive load on your server. The add-on is compatible with the General Data Protection Regulation for users (GDPR), so it does not collect any user information. Posts are processed on your site only and are not exported to any third party.

3 - Related Posts For WordPress Another distinctive add-on for this purpose, which is (Related Posts For WordPress). This add-on is characterized by its lightness on the server due to the cache memory, so that it does not affect the speed of your site, and does not use any servers outside your own site. The real advantage over other add-ons used for this purpose is the ability to modify the link in the content. After activation, it links similar content together while leaving you the option to cancel this link or add a new link to specific content. This feature helps in developing the add-on as it can link to the content more accurately. Another advantage is that it works on various types of content, even WooCommerce products, which really need this feature, and this will inevitably keep your customer for hours in your store browsing similar products that match his taste.

4 - Related Posts by Taxonomy We move to the (Related Posts by Taxonomy) add-on. What strengthens this add-on in the arena of competition among add-ons is that it can find similar content regardless of its category, tags, or type, and of course it includes multiple display options for related content. You can view it through thumbnails or links only, or complete posts or excerpts from previous posts that you want to refer to. One of its advantages is also its high speed, as it does not affect the performance of your site at all, and it displays the relevant content in order according to the degree of compatibility with the specific content. It is possible for an article to share a general topic with another article, and share with another a more specific and close aspect to the first article, so the article closest to the topic appears first. When you display a list of related content, you can specify the date of publication, the number of posts, and other classifications to determine what content is most appropriate. You can also exclude certain terms from the search. If there is a term that is frequently ambiguous and linked to another topic that may cause misunderstanding for the reader, you can use this feature to exclude it and filter the content more systematically. In addition, it is a highly customizable add-on, as you can use the filtering tools to change the default behavior of the add-on, so that the proposal is more relevant to the main topic.

5 - Jetpack We move to a leading, high-level add-on for WordPress users that has many uses, which is Jetpack. It is not an add-on dedicated to showing relevant content, but it performs this service within its many features. You can adjust the settings of related articles through the (Traffic) window, where you find several options to control the way relevant content is displayed. What distinguishes Jetpack is that it performs all analysis and processing operations through its own servers and not through your site’s server on WordPress, which means less effort expended by your server and thus reducing pressure on it. Like other add-ons, you can also place thumbnails of relevant content, and you can customize related posts manually using a set of code prepared by the Jetpack developer team. It is worth noting that the related posts feature in Jetpack is not a separate add-on in itself, but rather a feature within the full Jetpack add-on, so you will have to download the add-on to benefit from this feature, unlike previous add-ons specialized in this function. 6 - Thumbnails This add-on is completely opposite to the previous add-on. It is specifically designed for the purpose of displaying relevant content. It is one of the easiest and simplest add-ons as it does not have any complicated settings. Only through it can you display the relevant content in thumbnails, either on the sidebar or at the end of the article, in addition to a few simple formatting options. It is compatible with SEO through error-free code. Simply put, we can say that it is an easy and initial solution if you want to start with it and then improve to an option that includes more advanced settings later, and this add-on received the award. It is well received by many WordPress users, with more than 40,000 active installations.

7 - By adding Inline, you can predict the purpose of this addition from its name, as it is distinguished from previous additions by the ability to place relevant content within the article or publication and not at the bottom, for example, or on the sidebar. You can count it as a unique feature if there is an actual connection between the content displayed and the related content. The reader’s understanding is complete when he looks at the group of sources collected in one article, and sees them as complementary sources more than just suggestions at the bottom of the page if you want to read them or review them, but Unfortunately, it only offers this display method, so if you want to add content to the sidebar or the bottom of the page, you will have to use another independent add-on. Conclusion After reviewing the group of add-ons that provide you with the service of displaying relevant content, which increases the customer’s time on your site pages and activates the ways of interaction between you and your visitors, you can examine each add-on more closely to find out what suits the nature of your content and your site, as there is no single best solution for all sites and blogs, and the many options allow you the freedom to use, renew, and experiment more in search of what is most appropriate for you, and no matter how much time it costs, it is of course worth it. Do not delay in using this feature for your content and maintain it. Read your readers intelligently and gain their loyalty.