How to Display Related Posts in Wordpress Without a Plugin

How to Display Related Posts in Wordpress Without a Plugin

Increase your blog readers stay time by providing them helpful related posts list without using any extra plugin.

Paste the following code within loop in your theme’s single.php:

<?php
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
  echo 'Related Posts';
  $first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
  $args=array(
    'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
    'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
    'showposts'=>5, //Display this number of related posts
    'caller_get_posts'=>1
   );
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
      <?php
    endwhile;
  }
}
?>

P.S. This code uses first tag of that post to display releated posts.

This code was shared on Wordpress Support Forum.

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