Display a list of related posts on your site based on the most terms in common. Supports thumbnails, shortcodes, a widget and more.
As of April 2026, Related Posts by Taxonomy is a WordPress posts plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 77 reviews. It has been downloaded 313K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Quickly increase your readers’ engagement by adding related posts in the sidebar or after post content with a widget or shortcode.
Posts with the most terms in common will display at the top!
This plugin is capable of finding related posts in multiple taxonomies and post types. Include or exclude terms from the search for related posts. Change the look and feel by using your own templates in a (child) theme.
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Adoro questo plugin, funziona alla grande e ha molte funzionalità! Il supporto è fantastico!
Grazie di cuore!
How on the Earth did I miss this related posts plugin? Maybe the name is too niche but it is a wonderful “allrounder” plugin.
A six-stars out of five — tool.
Rocking it on my primary website and soon to be added to all my client sites.
Very well done and thanks for the documentation. Helps a fellow developer.
After having repeatedly tried and dumped a heap of plugins that didn’t quite do what they should—or needed convoluted work in order to do so—, what a relief it is to finally installing this plugin!
I was wondering why I had chosen this one for a previous website I put together a while ago, and now I understand.
I enjoyed RPbT while it worked. It used to be a 5 star plugin.
But it seems to have finally wilted, ceased to be and is now an ex-plugin.
Rest in Plugin-heaven
I love that this plugin does exactly what I need it to do, the attributes are easily edited and you’re really thought of anything I would want to specify. I really like that it’s so lightweight and simple, I had given up on using these plugins a few years back because of the load on larger sites. I hope it gets updated if there are any issues with new versions of wp, but for me, it’s working great with 5.9.1 (classic admin) Thank you!
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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