Relevant – Related, Featured, Latest, and Popular Posts by BestWebSoft

April 19, 2024

Relevant – Related, Featured, Latest, and Popular Posts by BestWebSoft Plugin

Add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to your WordPress website. Connect your blog readers with a relevant content.

Relevant plugin displays related, latest, popular, and featured posts on your WordPress website. Customize widgets, change the appearance, number of popular posts, and much more.

Highlight and display relevant information for your readers!

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Features

Choose different position for related, featured, latest, and popular posts:
- Before content
- After content
Use separate shortcodes to add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to:
- Posts
- Pages
- Custom post types
Add related, featured, latest, and popular posts to the widgets area
Change related, featured, latest, and popular posts:
- Title
- Number of posts
Display related posts in posts and pages based on:
- Categories
- Tags
- Title
- Meta keyword
Set custom size for featured image
Display latest posts from a certain or current category [NEW]
Display popular posts for current category
Display featured posts for current category [NEW]
Display latest posts for current category [NEW]
Mark any post or page as a featured
Set featured posts:
- Inner content width
- Section width
Customize featured posts color:
- Section background
- Text background
- Section title
- Description
- Learn more link
Changing featured posts with reloading
Set the default image if post image is missing
Customize Read More text and Set the excerpt length for related, featured, latest and popular posts
Display additional related, featured, latest and popular post info:
- Date
- Author
- Reading time
- Comments number
- Featured image
- Excerpt
Display additional popular post info:
- Number of views
Sort popular posts by number of:
- Comments
- Views
Compatible with latest WordPress version
Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos

If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature

Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help — https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Translation

Russian (ru_RU)
Ukrainian (uk)

Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.

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Installation

Upload relevant folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
You can adjust necessary settings through your WordPress admin panel in “Relevant Posts”.
Create a page or a post and insert shortcode [bws_related_posts], [bws_featured_post], [bws_latest_posts] or [bws_popular_posts] into the text.
Add Plugin widgets to the widget area.

View a Step-by-step Instruction on Relevant – Related, Featured, Latest and Popular Posts Plugin Installation

Screenshots

Related Posts Widget.
Latest Posts Widget.
Popular Posts Widget.
The displaying of Featured Posts block with Custom plugin settings (default theme).
The displaying of Featured Posts block with Custom plugin settings (BestWebSoft theme).
Related Posts Settings page.
Featured Posts settings.
Latest Posts Settings page.
Popular Posts Settings page.

FAQ

What “Categories”, “Tags”, “Title” and “Meta Key” mean for “Search Related Words in” option on the Related Posts settings page?

The plugin displays related post depending on your choice:

if you select “Categories” option, then related posts will be displayed by similar words in categories;
if you select “Tags” option, then related posts will be displayed by similar words in tags;
if you select “Title” option, then related posts will be displayed by similar words in the posts and pages titles;
if you select “Meta Key” option, then related post will be displayed by meta key.

I chose “Meta Key” in “Search Related Words in” option on Related Posts settings page, but it displays nothing

After you choose “Meta Key” option, you should complete the following:

1) Go to “All Posts”;
2) Choose the post you would like to be displayed by our plugin;
3) Click “edit” button;
4) Find “Related Posts” section;
5) Check “Key” radio button;
6) Update/Publish the post;
7) Repeat all these steps for each post you would like to display as related.

I have adjusted the Popular Posts settings, and yet nothing is displayed

You have probably selected ‘Views’ in ‘Order Posts by Number of’ option on the plugin settings page. Since the plugin hasn’t collected the necessary data yet, there is nothing to display. Once the users start visiting your pages, the plugin will start tracking, and the posts will be displayed in the widget (in the frontend).

How can I add Featured Post block to my website?

If you would like to add Featured Posts to your page or post, open the necessary posts or page in the Edit mode and mark “Enable to display this post in the Featured Posts block.” checkbox.

There are several ways to add the block, please use one of them:
1. Go to Related Posts settings page, find “Block position” option and mark “Before content” and/or “After content” checkboxes.
2. Copy and paste the following shortcode into your post or page: [bws_featured_post].
3. Copy and paste the following code to the necessary place in your theme:

<?php do_action( 'ftrdpsts_featured_posts' ); ?>

I set the featured image size but the plugin scaled it. How can I crop the image?

You can manually regenerate thumbnails in any convenient way. We recommend you to use WordPress plugins in order to avoid the mistakes. Please read more here: Regenerate Thumbnails

I completed the steps you described, but Featured Post block is not displaying yet. Why?

Please select the necessary posts you would like to display (open the necessary posts or page in the Edit mode and mark “Enable to display this post in the Featured Posts block.” checkbox).

I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?

Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:
– The link to the page where the problem occurs.
– The name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
– The version of your WordPress installation.
– Copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status

Changelog

V1.4.4 – 10.05.2022

NEW : Add new Date Range – 3 days, 5 days, and 7 days ago.
Update : We updated functionality for wordpress 5.9.3.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.4.3 – 26.04.2022

Bugfix : Deactivation Feedback fix.

V1.4.2 – 24.03.2022

Update : We updated functionality for wordpress 5.9.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.4.1 – 14.07.2021

NEW : The ability to display posts from the current category in Related Posts, Featured Posts and Latest Posts has been added.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 5.8.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.4.0 – 02.11.2020

Bugfix : The bug with blocks for selecting the image size has been fixed.
Update : The plugin settings page was changed.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.3.9 – 18.12.2019

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 5.3.1.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.3.8 – 26.09.2019

Bugfix : The bug with the incorrect count of the views number has been fixed.
Bugfix : The bug with the custom image sizes displaying has been fixed.

V1.3.7 – 04.09.2019

Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.3.6 – 01.07.2019

Bugfix : The bug related to “Search Related Words” and “Search on Pages” options has been fixed.

V1.3.5 – 09.05.2019

Update : The function for returning an array of objects has been added.

V1.3.4 – 18.12.2018

Bugfix : The bug related to the featured image size, views number and content block width has been fixed.

V1.3.3 – 13.09.2018

NEW : Ability to display posts not older than the indicated time period has been added.

V1.2.3 – 14.06.2018

NEW : Ability to configure widgets using all plugin settings has been added.
NEW : Ability to change featured image size has been added.
Bugfix : The bug related to the old PHP version was fixed.

V1.2.2 – 25.01.2018

NEW : Display additional related, featured and latest post info.
NEW : Customize Read More text and Set the excerpt length for related, featured.

V1.2.1 – 12.06.2017

NEW : Latest Posts block has been added.
NEW : Popular Posts block has been added.
NEW : Featured Posts block has been added.
NEW : Ability to add popular posts before and after content.
Update : The plugin settings page has been updated.

V1.2.0 – 17.04.2017

Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.

V1.1.9 – 12.10.2016

Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.1.8 – 26.08.2016

Bugfix : The error with undefined variables has been fixed.

V1.1.7 – 11.07.2016

Update : ‘widget_title’ filter was added.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.5.3.

V1.1.6 – 18.04.2016

NEW : Ability to add custom styles.

V1.1.5 – 08.12.2015

Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.

V1.1.4 – 01.10.2015

NEW : You can include pages into related searching.
NEW : A button for Related Posts shortcode inserting to the content was added.
Update : Textdomain was changed.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.3.1.

V1.1.3 – 28.07.2015

New : Ability to restore settings to defaults.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.3.

V1.1.2 – 26.05.2015

Bugfix : We fixed a notice about Undefined index title.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.2.

V1.1.1 – 01.04.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.1
Bugfix : Plugin optimization is done.

V1.1.0 – 12.01.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.

V1.0.9 – 28.11.2014

Bugfix : The bug with Related Posts Plugin Widget is fixed.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.0.1.

V1.0.8 – 07.08.2014

Bugfix : Security Exploit was fixed.
NEW : Ability to show posts thumbnails.

V1.0.7 – 20.05.2014

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.9.1.
NEW : The Ukrainian language file is added to the plugin.

V1.0.6 – 10.04.2014

Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
Bugfix : Plugin optimization is done.

V1.0.5 – 21.02.2014

Update : Screenshots are updated.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.8.1.
Bugfix : Problem with posts marked by Meta Key is fixed.

V1.0.4 – 26.12.2013

Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.8.

V1.0.3 – 08.10.2013

NEW : Add checking installed wordpress version.
Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.7.1.
Update : Activation of radio button or checkbox by clicking on its label.

V1.0.2 – 02.10.2013

NEW : We added BWS Menu.
NEW : We added new screenshots.
Update : Styles were updated.

V1.0.1 – 04.09.2013

NEW : We added plugin description and a screenshot.
Update : Changed style and description of meta box.

V1.0.0 – 24.08.2013

Update : Improved design of code.