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YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

The best WordPress plugin for displaying related posts. Simple and flexible, with a powerful proven algorithm and inbuilt caching.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.7
Current version5.30.11
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.7
Minimum stackWP 3.7 · PHP 5.3
Directory statusactive
Last directory update11 Nov 20241y ago
Active installations100K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.8 / 5 from 1,165 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin version 5.30.11 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.7.

Overview

About this plugin

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) is a professionally maintained, highly customizable, performant and feature rich plugin that displays pages, posts, and custom post types related to the current entry. YARPP introduces your visitors to other relevant content on your site — boosting visitor engagement, time on site and SEO. Related Posts can increase your pageviews up to 10%.

Simply install, activate and watch your sessions and pageviews increase.

Key Features

  • An advanced and versatile algorithm: Using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, categories, and custom taxonomies, YARPP finds related content from across your site
  • Caching: Inbuilt cache makes subsequent queries super efficient and fast
  • Custom Templates and Styles: Use a pre-built list or thumbnail template, or use the YARPP custom templating system for 100% control of how results are styles and displayed
  • Flexible with a full range of placement options, including:
  • Automatic Display Options (pick where to show YARPP from the YARPP settings page)
  • RSS/Feed Options
  • Block Editor (Gutenberg)
  • [yarpp] Shortcode
  • Widget
  • YARPP functions()
  • REST API
  • Works with all languages, including those with full-width (double-byte) characters and those that don’t use spaces between words
  • Custom post type and taxonomy support
  • WordPress Multisite support
  • bbPress forums support
  • WooCommerce support
  • Professionally maintained and supported with regular updates

YARPP Algorithm Explained

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Wide Support

YARPP is the most popular and the highest rated Related Posts Plugin for WordPress. With your support, this plugin always strives to be the best WordPress plugin for Content Discovery and Related Posts.

✔ Over 10 years of development

✔ Over 6 million downloads

✔ Translated into more than a dozen languages

✔ Professionally maintained and actively supported with regular updates

✔ Works with all languages

7 or greater. See the FAQ for answers to common questions.

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • contextual related posts
  • related posts
  • similar posts
  • seo
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.7

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.7.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.7
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.7 · PHP 5.3
Update activity11 Nov 20241y ago

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