How to show related posts with thumbnail in wordpress

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Related posts with thumbnail is an effective way to show older posts that are relevant or related with your entries and can significantly increase blog page views. Here are few methods how you can implement the widgets in your blog.

1. Linkwithin

Linkwithin is a simple widget to show related stories from your archive with thumbnails. Installation is a very easy and quick. Linkwithin is available as wordpress plugin and as blogger widget or you can just copy the html code and insert it manually in your blog template.

To use linkwithin, just go to linkwithin,com and fill the form with correct information of your blog. Click on get widget, then get the wordpress plugin and upload to your blog. Activate it and you can start using linkwtihin.

2. Yet Another Related Post (YARP)

BuildInternet has posted an excellent tutorial on how to show related posts with thumbnail using Yet Another Related Posts (YARP) plugin for wordpress.

Click here to read: Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in WordPress

3. Wp-Thumbie

Wp-Thumbie is a wordpress plugin released by Blogsdna that can show related post with thumbnails in your wordpress blog.

Download Wp-Thumbie at Blogsdna.

4. Outbrain recommendations widget

Outbrain widgets can be used for blog content ratings and recommendations. Recently, outbrain widget users can select thumbnails instead of plain text links to show recommendation.

To use outbrain’s widget, you need to register and claim your blog first, then change the settings; set recommendations to limited recommendations and widget style to thumbnail images.

Outbrain widget’s link.

5. Rich Related Posts WordPress Plugin

Powerful CMS solution to quickly and easily create multiple groups of rich related content with images using tools such as combination search/entry fields and element units consisting of custom headline + permalink + image url. Code is ready to be inserted into posts, and can be used in sidebar text widgets after adding this filter to functions.php:

add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

Download Rich Related Posts wordpress plugin at wordpress.org.

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