Displaying related posts on your WordPress websites helps to improve your visitor’s engagement with your content. Showing some relevant blog posts to the current reading blogs gives more related information to your readers.
If you are not showing related blog posts on your website, then you are restricting your visitors to explore more pages. This blog post helps you on how to show related posts on your wordpress websites.
Having better recommendations for blog posts and relevant posts reduces your bounce rate. Bounce rate is one of the important things, that shows the visitor’s interaction on your website.
By using two different ways, you can easily show related posts on your WordPress blogs. Displaying related posts on WordPress using a plugin and without a plugin.
Using the WordPress plugin is the best way for beginners to display related posts on WordPress blogs. Some popular WordPress themes like OceanWP have related posts as an inbuilt feature.
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Show and Display Related Posts using a plugin
You need to just install a WordPress plugin and it shows the best relevant related posts on your blog pages.
There are many WordPress plugins available, but here I have chosen is JetPack. It is one of the most trusted multipurpose plugins. Follow the below steps to activate the plugin.
Head over to the add new plugin on the WordPress dashboard and search for JetPack.
Then Install the Plugin and activate it. After activating it, you can set up the plugin.
During your setup, it asks you to enable the related posts display option. You can easily enable it.
If you are already using the JetPack plugin, then you can visit the JetPack settings options to enable it. On the JetPack setting, navigate to the Traffic option and enable the show-related posts option.
JetPack > Settings > Traffic > Activate related posts
Once you enabled it, it will show you the preview of the related posts. You can also use the below customization option to customize it.
You can choose the layout style between Grid and List, to show your related posts.
With this, you can also customize your related posts, using the coding. The customization with code gives you more flexibility for displaying related posts on your WordPress blog.
But if you are directly doing any changes on your core files, then use backup plugins like UpdraftPlus to take the backup of your site.
Customizing the display of related posts on individual blog posts
You can also easily add the related posts on your blogs, wherever you need them. JetPack gives you separate related posts block on your Gutenberg editor.
But you can use this block only one time on each blog post. You can also enable and disable the related posts for individual posts on the block editor.
How displaying related posts on WordPress works
Usually, these related posts plugins highly depend on the server-side, to fetch and compare all the blogs to show the relevant posts.
This plugin analyses and process your blog posts and doesn’t load on your servers. It shows you the best-related blog post suggestions with better accuracy.
Other plugins for adding related posts to your WordPress blogs include YARPP and Similar posts.
Having a related post on every blog is important. Having relevant content helps your readers to explore more about the particular topic. It also reduces your bounce rates.
Some best SEO-friendly WordPress themes also come with an inbuilt related posts option. If your theme has this option, then you can easily enable it.
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I hope this blog helps to show related posts on your WordPress blogs to increase your traffic to your pages.
