Same Category Posts free WordPress plugin

Same Category Posts shows a list of related posts with a same Post Type to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. Forked from Related Posts Widget.

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Features

• Shows a list of related posts.
• Option which Post Type should be related to the current post.
• Custom Post Types support.
• Child category and terms support.
• Archive page support.
• Option exclude one or multi categories or terms.
• Option to filter by popular posts (by comment count).
• Option separate categories if more than one is assigned.
• Set how many posts to show (overall and by category).
• Option exclude current post, sticky posts or children.
• Option exclude categories and terms without exclude their children.
• Placeholders in title string (e.g. “There are a lot of %cat%-News.” -> “There are a lot of Tech-News.”).
• Filter hook for the post titles ‘widget_title’.
• Option to show post thumbnail and set width & height.
• Option to crop thumbnails dimensions with CSS.
• Option to put thumbnail on top.
• Option to make the widget title link to the category page.
• Option to show/hide the title.
• Option to show the post excerpt and how long (in words).
• Option change excerpt ‘more’ text.
• Option to show the post date, author and comment count.
• Multiple widgets.

Placeholder

In text boxes %cat% will replaced with the (first assigned) category name, e.g. “There are a lot of %cat%-News.” -> “There are a lot of Tech-News.”

And %cat-all% will replaced with all assigned category name, e.g. “Special offers for %cat-all%!” -> “Special offers for houses, flats, apartments.”

Contribute

While using this plugin if you find any bug or any conflict, please submit an issue at
Github (If possible with a pull request).