YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin: Breakdown
YARPP is a plugin for WordPress that displays a list of related posts to the post being viewed. It can do this automatically, meaning you don’t have to manually link each individual post. YARPP offers automatic related posts, pages, and even custom post types, making this a great feature for websites that use custom post types. YARPP shows the blog post titles, featured images, or excerpts and links them to either, the post content or an external URL. For example, if a reader views a blog post about the topic of the “best restaurants in New York City,” the YARPP plugin can display a list of related posts such as “top 5 coffee shops in Queens” or “the best pizza in Brooklyn.” In this case, the related post list will be created using the topics of “restaurants” and “New York City.”
YARPP also gives users the ability to customize the related post display. For example, they can choose the style of the related post list, as well as the size and the order of the list. Additionally, users can customize the criteria that are used to determine the related posts, such as related posts with the same author, category, tags, and taxonomy, or posts within the same directory. YARPP also gives users the ability to exclude certain posts such as those that contain a specific word, post type, tag, category, and so on.
YARPP also offers support for social media sharing, allowing users to easily share content across Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social networks. This helps increase web traffic, as it allows content to be shared easily among others, as well as adding social proof to the post. Moreover, the plugin also integrates with WordPress SEO by Yoast to help users optimize their content for SEO. Other features include the ability to exclude related posts from the feed, the ability to enable or disable features for different post types, and the ability to import and export settings for easy installation onto other WordPress websites.