WordPress related posts plugin are the best way to keep your readers interest stay on track. And even if they don’t like post they’re reading, they can have the opportunity to choose a better one from the related post plugin you’re going to install.

There are more than 9 WordPress related posts plugins available and you’re probably unsure which the best is?

In this post, we’ll going through a little comparison of them and help you choose the best plugin for your blog, as well we want to listen to some smart folks were using lately and their recommendation and here are..

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9 WordPress Plugin for Related Posts

1. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Mitchoyoshitaka – Be able to choose whether to display a list of related post to site or on feed and with custom post type support.

2. WordPress Related Posts  by Denis Hua – Generate related posts via WordPress tag and display related posts on feed.

3. Related Posts for WordPress by Microkid – Increase your site page view and SEO by manually selecting related posts for content.

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4. Contextual Related Posts by Ajay – Decrease bounce rates and increase reader retention by using contextual Related Posts to generate and display

5. Related Post Thumbnails by Marynixie – Choose whether to Display different amount of related posts thumbnails under your content.

6. SEO Auto Links and Related Posts by Poer – SEO Auto Links and Related Posts is a plugin that combine related posts and auto smart links.

7. Efficient Related Posts by Aaroncampbell – Required PHP5 to load this plugin and can be works immediately even with a thousand of posts and tags already existed.

8. Thumblated Related Post by Shekharsaxena007 – Choose whether to Display different amount of related posts thumbnails under your content.

9. Darren’s Related Posts Plugin by Darren.

Choose Plugin that have the Latest Update

Most people were choosing plugin to install to their blog, by simply looking at the number downloads; rate. But actually, plugin that have the latest update and often update are the best plugin for us.

Just like a blog, a blog without update is a dead blog. Therefore, we shouldn’t use a dead plugin that would never make an update over a long period of time. You can also go through this article to know more about this topic.

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Recommendation from Smart Folks

Matt Cutts is software engineer in Jan 2000 and currently the head of Google’s Webspam team, said:

My criteria was: the easiest plugin to install, that appeared to be actively maintained, and ideally would give me lots of options. The first one I ended up trying was Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), and Mitcho has really done a fantastic job on it:

• It’s trivial to install.
• You don’t have to edit your WordPress template.
• The relevance is good: the suggested posts are related, and you can tweak thresholds and how things are computed if you want.

Have you decided which related posts plugin you’re going to install? – list it on the comment below!