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Custom Related Posts

Manual related posts without slowing down your website!

By Brecht·Widget·Free
4.9(46 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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As of April 2026, Custom Related Posts is a WordPress widget plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 46 reviews. It has been downloaded 76K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.

4.9/546 reviews
3.0K+active installs
76K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

Custom Related Posts is a user friendly plugin for manually adding related posts to any of your posts, pages or custom post types. You have full control over those related links, choosing for yourself if they go both ways.

An overview of the features:

  • Set which post types the plugin is active for yourself
  • Easily define relations in one or both ways on the post edit page
  • Display related posts with a shortcode, widget or block
  • Optionally show featured images in any size
  • Import from XML using post IDs
  • Compatible with the Classic Editor and Gutenberg Block Editor

Need help?
Check out our documentation!

This plugin is under active development. Any feature requests are welcome!

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.946 reviews
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Recent Reviews

A fine plugin!
by Lovro Hrust·5 months ago

Plugin does its job and it is very usable to integrate in large projects. However, author should be caution to announce plugin HTML output change as breaking changes.

Simple, clear, does the job!
by septim·1 year ago

Quite a nice tool, allows to control what goes where with some useful layout options. Of course it’s more work than automated plugins and as you add content you need to manually setup your links, but I’d rather have it this way.

Had a small issue with shrinking thumbnails on smaller screens for posts with long titles, but I could find the css code to add in the templates section in this very forum. Still I think this should be a default feature, or at least a checkbox option, because it looks weird when it happens.

Thanks for this light, simple & useful tool!

Everything I needed
by unklee·2 years ago

I have used this plugin for more than 3 years now and I am very pleased with it. I don’t want a plugin that chooses compatible posts itself, thus slowing my page down. Rather I want one where I can do the choosing and the plugin puts it on the page with minimum fuss. Which is exactly what this plugin does. What’s more, when I had a minor layout issue, and ask for support, I got a quick answer that resolved the issue. So thanks for a useful plugin that simply works.

Works perfectly
by alordiel·2 years ago

Simple and light, it is all I need for my project. The Gutenberg integration is pretty cool and UI is easy to work with. Thank you.

Really nice plugin
by ririro·2 years ago

Simple and flexible. Really appreciate it.

Download Trends

Today: 20Yesterday: 31This week: 151Period total: 14K

Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.8
60.4%
v1.7
31.1%
v1.6
8.1%
v1.4
0.4%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.8.1

  • Improvement: Compatibility with Block Editor in iFrame
  • Fix: Additional check to make sure a logged in user can only see his own posts
  • Fix: Change default post status to published only
  • Fix: Icon color in Block Editor
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

BrechtBrecht
Plugin Info
Version
1.8.1
Last Updated
Jan 23, 2026
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
3.0K+
Downloads
76K+
Added
Aug 7, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

widgetrelated postscustom post typemanual related posts

Developer

B
Brecht
7 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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