Manual related posts without slowing down your website!
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.
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
Simple and flexible. Really appreciate it.
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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