Build stronger content connections
Contextual Related Posts Pro helps WordPress sites present relevant content alongside posts and pages. It analyzes content to find related entries and adds advanced controls for matching, performance, display, and content strategy. The result is a more configurable way to guide visitors from one article or product-related page to another.
Control how related content is found
Pro gives you more control over relevance matching. Adjust the weight assigned to titles, content, and excerpts, and refine results with taxonomy weighting. For block-based displays, a keyword override lets you set a word or phrase for the Related Posts block. These settings are useful when the default relationship between entries does not reflect the way you want content grouped.
Content storage and indexing can be optimized through custom tables and database indices. The plugin also includes configurable cache times from one hour to one year. A server-load threshold can prevent related-post queries from running when the database is under heavy load, while bot protection can skip processing for known bots and crawlers through an extensible signature list.
Flexible display options
Display related content through the content area, shortcode, widget, or block methods. Lazy loading can load related posts with JavaScript as they approach the viewport, including when the output is used in content, shortcodes, widgets, or blocks. The Pro edition also supports advanced block layouts through the Query Loop Block and ready-to-use patterns such as Grid and Image with Title.
Extra shortcode parameters provide additional control over related-post output. Tracking parameters can add UTM information to related-post clicks, making it possible to measure how visitors interact with recommended content. Cornerstone Posts help feature important content within the related-post experience. Exclusions can be used to omit selected categories or tags, and related lists can support posts, pages, attachments, and other custom post types.
WooCommerce recommendations
For WooCommerce stores, Pro can customize product-related output by changing prices and ratings and choosing whether to replace or complement WooCommerce related products. Cart Related Products can show contextually related products priced within the gap between the cart total and a free-shipping threshold. You can configure the price band, product count, heading, and cart-page hook position. Matching is anchored to the most expensive cart item.
Administration and automation
WP-CLI support provides commands for database management, index-status checks, post-meta migration, cache control, custom-table operations, content processing, and FULLTEXT index management. Cache commands can clear, warm, enable, or disable caching and support multisite installations. Bulk content processing and multisite network commands are available for administrative workflows.
Installation and setup
Install and activate Contextual Related Posts Pro in WordPress, then configure its matching, cache, display, and exclusion settings. Choose automatic content placement or add related posts manually through a block, widget, or shortcode. Store and index settings, WooCommerce options, tracking parameters, and WP-CLI commands can be adjusted according to the site’s publishing and administration workflow.
