Relatedly Documentation

Overview

Show related posts with thumbnails at the end of each article, matched by tags and categories, to keep readers on your site.

• Related posts with images
• Tags and categories
• More pages per visit

Best for: Blogs and content sites

Installation

1. Download relatedly-related-posts.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Related posts at the end of every post
• Matched by tags (counted double) and categories
• Grid with large images or compact list
• 1 to 8 posts, your title
• Date and excerpt optional
• Cached for 12 hours, refreshed when you publish
• Anywhere with [relatedly]

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [relatedly]
• [relatedly_preview]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• relatedly_active
• relatedly_sanitize

add_filter( 'relatedly_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• relatedly_admin_after_form
• relatedly_admin_before_form
• relatedly_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions