¿Desea mostrar una lista de entradas relacionadas en su sitio web de WordPress y prefiere utilizar código en lugar de un plugin?
Cuando los visitantes de su blog hayan terminado de leer un artículo que les interese, ofrecerles una lista de entradas relacionadas les mantendrá interesados y les ayudará a encontrar nuevos contenidos que leer.
En este artículo, le mostraremos cómo mostrar entradas relacionadas con WordPress usando código, sin necesidad de plugins.
¿Por qué mostrar páginas relacionadas en WordPress?
Cuando tu blog de WordPress empieza a crecer, puede resultar más difícil para los usuarios encontrar otras entradas sobre el mismo debate.
Mostrar una lista de contenidos relacionados al final de cada entrada del blog es una buena forma de mantener a los visitantes en su sitio web y aumentar las visitas. También ayuda a mejorar la visibilidad de las páginas más importantes al mostrar los mejores contenidos donde la gente pueda encontrarlos fácilmente.
Si no está familiarizado con el código, entonces le resultará más sencillo elegir uno de los muchos plugins de WordPress para entradas relacionadas que pueden mostrar entradas relacionadas sin código.
Pero si alguna vez te has preguntado si puedes mostrar entradas relacionadas sin usar un plugin, entonces compartiremos dos algoritmos diferentes que puedes usar para generar entradas relacionadas con miniaturas usando sólo código:
Nota: Si desea mostrar una miniatura con cada entrada relacionada, asegúrese de añadir primero una imagen destacada a esas entradas.
Método 1: Cómo mostrar entradas relacionadas en WordPress por etiquetas
Una forma eficaz de localizar contenidos relacionados es buscar otras entradas que compartan las mismas etiquetas. Las etiquetas suelen utilizarse para centrarse en los detalles específicos que contiene una entrada.
Teniendo esto en cuenta, puede que desee seguir adelante y añadir algunas etiquetas comunes a las entradas que desea relacionar entre sí. Puede introducirlas en el cuadro “Etiquetas” del editor de WordPress.
Después de haber añadido etiquetas a tus entradas, lo siguiente que tienes que hacer es añadir el siguiente fragmento de código a la plantilla single. php de tu tema. Si necesitas ayuda para añadir código a tu sitio, consulta nuestra guía sobre cómo pegar fragmentos de código de la web en WordPress.
$orig_post = $post;
global $post;
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
$tag_ids = array();
foreach($tags as $individual_tag) $tag_ids[] = $individual_tag->term_id;
$args=array(
'tag__in' => $tag_ids,
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
'posts_per_page'=>5, // Number of related posts that will be shown.
'ignore_sticky_posts'=>1
);
$my_query = new wp_query( $args );
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<div id="relatedposts"><h3>Related Posts</h3><ul>';
while( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
$my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li><div class="relatedthumb"><a href="<?php the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><!--?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?--></a></div>
<div class="relatedcontent">
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><!--?php the_title(); ?--></a></h3>
<!--?php the_time('M j, Y') ?-->
</div>
</li>
<!--?php }
echo '</ul--></ul></div>';
}
}
$post = $orig_post;
wp_reset_query();
Este código busca etiquetas asociadas a una página y ejecuta una consulta a la base de datos para obtener páginas con etiquetas similares.
¿Dónde debes colocar el código? Eso depende de tu tema, pero en la mayoría de los casos, deberías poder pegar el código en la plantilla single. php de tu tema después de la entrada principal y justo encima de la sección de comentarios.
Si utiliza el tema Twenty Twenty-One, como nosotros en nuestro sitio de demostración, un buen lugar para pegar el código es en el archivo template-parts/content/content-single. php después de la cabecera y justo después de <?php the_content();.
Esto mostrará automáticamente el contenido relacionado en cualquier entrada de WordPress. Tendrás que cambiar el estilo y la apariencia de tus entradas relacionadas para que coincidan con tu tema añadiendo CSS personalizado.
Consejo: En lugar de editar los archivos de su tema, lo que podría romper su sitio web, le recomendamos que utilice un plugin de fragmentos de código como WPCode.
WPCode hace que sea seguro y fácil añadir código personalizado en WordPress. Además, viene con opciones de ‘Inserción’ que le permiten insertar y ejecutar automáticamente fragmentos de código en lugares específicos de su sitio WordPress, como por ejemplo después de una entrada.
Para más detalles, consulte nuestra guía sobre cómo añadir código personalizado en WordPress. También puedes comprobar nuestra detallada reseña de WPCode para saber más acerca del plugin.
Método 2: Cómo mostrar entradas relacionadas en WordPress por categoría
Otra forma de mostrar contenido relacionado es listar entradas que estén en la misma categoría. La ventaja de este método es que la lista de entradas relacionadas casi nunca estará en blanco.
Como en el método 1, tienes que añadir un fragmento de código a la plantilla single. php de tu tema o en un plugin de fragmentos de código como WPCode. Para más detalles, consulta el Método 1 y nuestra guía sobre cómo añadir código personalizado en WordPress.
$orig_post = $post;
global $post;
$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
if ($categories) {
$category_ids = array();
foreach($categories as $individual_category) $category_ids[] = $individual_category->term_id;
$args=array(
'category__in' => $category_ids,
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
'posts_per_page'=> 2, // Number of related posts that will be shown.
'ignore_sticky_posts'=>1
);
$my_query = new wp_query( $args );
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<div id="related_posts"><h3>Related Posts</h3><ul>';
while( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
$my_query->the_post();?>
<li><div class="relatedthumb"><a href="<?php the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><!--?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?--></a></div>
<div class="relatedcontent">
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink()?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><!--?php the_title(); ?--></a></h3>
<!--?php the_time('M j, Y') ?-->
</div>
</li>
<!--?php }
echo '</ul--></ul></div>';
}
}
$post = $orig_post;
wp_reset_query();
Ahora verá una lista de contenidos relacionados en la parte inferior de cada entrada.
Si desea cambiar el estilo y la apariencia de sus páginas relacionadas, entonces tendrá que añadir CSS personalizado para que coincida con su tema.
Esperamos que este tutorial te haya ayudado a aprender cómo mostrar entradas relacionadas con miniaturas en WordPress sin plugins. Puede que también quieras aprender a hacer un seguimiento de los visitantes de tu sitio WordPress, o comprobar nuestra lista de 24 consejos para acelerar tu sitio web.
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Syed Balkhi says
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Abhijit Badgujar says
Hi,
I have a ‘Related post’ option from my wordpress theme and i am already using it. I have displayed 6 posts after the content. The problem is, it only shows 3 related posts and next three can be seen when you slide it horizontally. I don’t want that option, i want the site to display all 6 posts outright. Can you tell me how to do it?
Gyuricza Laszlo says
Hello,
Your guidance was amazing but how can i exclude a specific category from the related posts in order to not display it?
Thank you, in advance!
Sincerely,
LAszlo Gyuricza
WPBeginner Support says
You can try one of the related posts plugins.
Administrador
Tuta says
Hi Syed. How do I style it?
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Tuta,
You can use #relatedposts .relatedthumb and .relatedcontent selectors in your CSS to style it.
Administrador
Dev Rathore says
How to Display All Post List in one Page
Suraz says
How to Show Related Post It In two Columns Like here in WPBeginner??
Tom says
Nice solution but not definitive for my exigence. Infact the mean problem is that this code sort the related posts from the most recent in the same category or tags. The result is that when you browse inside a category/tag you’ll always display the same few last posts, limiting hardly the older posts of your site. That’s a right conclusion? Please if you tried it share your opinion!
Joy says
1. After ‘caller_get_posts’=>1 put a comma(,)
2. Hit enter button [next line]
3. Add ‘orderby’=>’rand’
You are done. Now related posts will be shown randomly. Thank you.
Zane DeVault says
This code works great. I was wondering if you could explain what this part of the code does?
$orig_post = $post;
global $post;
…
$post = $orig_post;
I think I have a grasp on what the rest is doing, but this is throwing me for a loop.
Thanks for all your great content!
may nghe len says
Let me ask the Code Related Posts by Category posted in public places. thank you
atiq says
in Twentyfifteen default theme where should i insert this code in single.php file? If i inserted above the endwhile; it shows syntax error, unexpected ‘endwhile’ and if i inserted below the endwhile; but above the endif; it shows syntax error, unexpected ‘endif’
Any solution for this?
Thanks
Mohammad Kazemi says
You must use ‘<?php' not '<?'
atiq says
in Twentyfifteen default theme where should i insert this code in single.php file? If i inserted above the enwhile; it shows syntax error, unexpected ‘endwhile’ and if i inserted below the enwwile but above the endif; it shows syntax error, unexpected ‘endif’
Any solution for this?
Thanks
Marcel Tripoux says
Hi! Great post!
Is there a way to combine both option, in order to call related tags only in the current category ?
Bambang says
my single.php layout :
//the_content bla bla bla code here
//Copy paste Related Posts by Tags code here
//comments_template bla bla bla code here
——————————-
the result i got error :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘endwhile’ (T_ENDWHILE) in …
——————————-
after i change ” <? } " to " <?php } " it worked,
just sugestion, maybe it better if you put complete php open tag
thanks
Alex says
Works perfect. How to exclude the definite tag from Related Posts by Tags? I mean how to change the code when algorithm would find other posts with any one of the tag (except tag 595 for instance) that the current post has and will list them.
Mohammad says
Thanks for the great code
It works great but you didn’t address any css codes for a more beautiful look for this section. Can you please do this? I’m newbie to coding and I tried some codes but they didn’t work. In your codes there is:
echo ‘Related Posts’;
but in some similar codes I found in other resources there is:
and in css some codes like this:
.relatedposts {
font-size: 12px;
width: 640px;
}
.relatedposts h3 {
font-size: 20px;
margin: 0 0 5px;
}
will get that a nice look but it didn’t work with your code.
Thanks
Muthu says
Dear collegue this is an error am getting while pasting this code on single.php file.kindly tell me exacctly where should i paste this code.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in C:\xampp\htdocs\beingusefull\wp-content\themes\TechPlus\single.php on line 78
WPBeginner Staff says
That will depend on your individual theme and template. You need to add the conditional tag after the WordPress loop begins. After this line:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>Jenny says
I got that error too and this is my updated code:
ID);
if ($tags) {
$tag_ids = array();
foreach($tags as $individual_tag) $tag_ids[] = $individual_tag->term_id;
$args=array(
‘tag__in’ => $tag_ids,
‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),
‘posts_per_page’=>5, // Number of related posts that will be shown.
‘caller_get_posts’=>1
);
$my_query = new wp_query( $args );
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { ?>
Related Posts
have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<a href="” rel=”bookmark” title=””>
<a href="” rel=”bookmark” title=””>
wiyono says
When the post i share on facebook, the thumbnail getting from related post, can i get the thumbnail from the main page? thx
Lacey Tech Solutions says
If you’re using Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin you can specify the thumbnail URL under the social tab for the post. If the social tab isn’t shown then you need to click the Yoast SEO link in the WordPress admin menu then click “Social”. In the social page tick the option for, “Add Open Graph meta data” and save. Go back into your post and you can specify the thumbnail image you want to use when the post is shared. If you don’t implicitly set the post image the user has the option of selecting any image that appears on the page, which is why your recent post images are being pulled in when you share the article link.
Gretchen Louise says
Any thoughts on how much of a database/server load this would be on a large self-hosted site? Looking for a related posts alternative now that #nRelate is no longer available.
WPBeginner Staff says
Use conditional tag if (is_single()) on the first line of the code.
vipul says
can you tell where and how?
Rachael says
This doesn’t work in the single.php for me, b/c related posts show up at the very bottom of the page. It works with loop.php but then they also show up on the homepage – any ideas on a fix so it just shows in single posts and not the homepage?
kate // always craving // says
Hi, I must be the only one who is not doing this correctly. My theme supports featured images, I added this code before the comments within the single.php file. Any tips on exactly where to input in the code?
Keyko Sakura says
All the codes I find never work. Or they don’t change anything on my page or they display an error message. I don’t know what else to do!
Mason Coulter says
Is there a way to add pagination to the related posts query? I cant seem to get pagination to work on a secondary query within single.php. Thanks!
Tom K. says
Hello , i want to ask , is there way to make , that related posts would be by category and tags in one place? Thanks.
Jonas says
My thumbnails are too big, help. How can you limit the related posts thumbnails?
WPBeginner Support says
You probably need to regenerate thumbnails.
Administrador
Jonathan says
Is there a way to choose a single category (let’s call it Brands) and then have it display related posts only affiliated with the child categories under Brands? So, the hierarchy for the cats would be Brands > JCPenny. I want to only show related posts for JCPenny. But, that child category could be different per post. So if a post uses a different child category it’ll show related posts for that child cat. Can this code be modified to handle that somehow?
Jonathan says
OH! I think I’ve got it. I just added ‘parent’ => ‘the cat id number’, to the args and I think that did it.
Jonathan says
wait… no, that didn’t work
Miro says
Hi, thanks for the code, but instead of grabbing the featured image as a thumb, can i grab instead the first image in my posts? Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
This sounds like a nice post idea, we will cover it soon in a new article. Thanks for the feedback.
Administrador
Miro says
It would be great if you guys would make a post on it. Thank you very much and will be waiting. Hope that you can kindly post here a notification once you made the post so we know.
Caleb says
Great post thanks! I run a website that uses WP more as a CMS with a large number of pages rather than posts. Can I do this with as related pages instead, so that it’s grabbing related pages and not posts? If so how do I go about doing this.
Thanks for the help
Muhammad Hadi Qureshi says
Really thanks for this helping post
Phil Simon says
This. Is. Awesome. WPEngine understandably doesn’t allow for related posts plugins, save for a few exceptions. I tried a few and really didn’t like them. I threw this code into single.php and voila! Thank you.
Lucas Bishop says
This is good, but i wanna do it with title of post rather then tags or category. Any suggestions for it, syed!!
Alexandros says
Hi friends little problem it appears to me: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘endwhile’ (T_ENDWHILE) in C: \ xampp \ htdocs \ z1 \ wp-content \ themes \ mytheme \ single.php on line 65” find
But what ..? Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
Try pasting the code below the endwhile; in your single.php file.
Administrador
Britt says
Love this piece of code, use it on the regular! One question: Is there a way to exclude some tags in the code?
Rakesh says
Take a look at the category related posts code. It wont work unless you add some php , the three letters before getting started with echo. Add php and it will not be ignored. In either case, it is ignored and wordpress cries every time with an error note. Thanks for the code by the way and it made my work a lot easier. Thanks a ton for that and do adjust it ,
Dennis says
Also, I have one more question,
What if I wanted to display a certain post containing a certain tag to all posts, how would I do this?
Dennis says
Hi, this is so awesome! Now I can just get rid of my related post plugin, so thanks A LOT for that!
One question I have is, how can I display the related post in 2 column?
Once again, this has been such a BIG help for me!
Christina says
Hi!! Thanks for your helpful information for those, like myself, who have no idea of any coding, but still want to have a blog!! I have just incorporated your ‘relate posts by tags” code to my single post file. It works except for the pfotos. They dont show at all and the titles of my related posts are shown the one under the other, like a list. What have I done wrong?? Thanks in advance for your answer!!
WPBeginner Support says
It seems like you are not using post thumbnails or featured images with your posts in WordPress. Also you may need to tweak the CSS a little bit/
Administrador
TheFran says
Hi,
This code is amazing! Thank you so much. Is there a way I can make the code show related posts from ANOTHER SITE? So it searches the posts from another site that I show below the post as a related post on my site?
Thanks!
Editorial Staff says
Not using this snippet. You would have to create something more complex for that.
Administrador
Carlos says
Hi,
I’m using a theme that works with custom posts. I wonder if I try your code, which part should I edit to display just those custom posts instead of the regular posts.
Thanks
Miz.Chellie says
Hello – yours is the first tutorial that I found that works but I would like the list vertical. Can you give an example of the CSS for that?
Livius says
Hey,
I cannot, find the single.php where I have to insert this code.
The problem is that I am using Balance Theme + Genesis. So in the genesis, I can find the Single.php, but it says to “Not Edit Under Any Circumstances”, and I have actually pasted the code in there, but it made my site to stop opening pages at all.
And in the Child Balance Theme, there is no Single.php ….
Any suggestions?
Editorial Staff says
Yes, don’t edit the framework file. You would have to familiarize yourself with Genesis hooks and filters. Then add the code in one of the loop hooks for single page using your functions.php file. Unfortunately, due to the amount of frameworks out there, we can’t possibly cover our tips for all frameworks.
Administrador
Mark says
Use Genesis Hooks then put the code in there.
peter says
Hello is there any way to change the thumbnail size? i get only one related post and its thumbnail is huge
Editorial Staff says
Yes. You would have to add additional image sizes like this:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-additional-image-sizes-in-wordpress/
Administrador
Dean says
Hi! this is very useful coding. Is it possible to use this for making a custom page that will show all the posts, like a sitemap but with thumbnails? Something like this:
Category 1
—– related posts code (all posts from that category) ——
Category 2
—– related posts code (all posts from that category) ——
etc. It would make a great showcase for categories with few posts. Thank you for reading and help!
Dean says
hey, found something here.. I will try that
Nuno Marques says
Hey,
very handy your “Related Posts by Category”.
Sometimes I believe it’s better to have add a raw code rather than use a plugin doesn’t is so expansible…
Thank you!
Silverbadger says
Is it possible to display the posts horizontal instead of vertical?
Thanks
Editorial Staff says
Yes, you can simply adjust the CSS.
Administrador
Paul says
Thank you thank you thank you!! A simple copy paste bit of code that just gets on with it and works – does exactly what it says. This is exactly what I was looking for
Editorial Staff says
Yes, you can use post thumbnails by itself. Not sure why you would want the related feature…
Administrador
Raheek says
Thanks for the helpful article. I now just added elated posts by using this code.
Ferdy says
What if there are no related posts. can it be coded such that it falls back to category related.
tobalseverin says
hi!
i need some help…
How i can filter.. the category, but if i have parent and child categories and only i show the child post. ex:
– product (all product, this is the parent) (id 104)
– KindOfProducts (subcategory, this is the child) (id 109)
– KindOfProductsTwo (subcategory, this is the child) (id 110)
in products have all post but just need show related from the child: KindOfProducts.
i try whit this:
$args = array(
‘category__in’ => $category_ids,
‘category__not_in’ => 104,
‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),
‘orderby’=> ‘rand’,
‘showposts’ => 100,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1
);
but dont showme nothing…
and i try whit this other one:
$args = array(
‘category__in’ => $category_ids,
‘child_of’ => 104,
‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID),
‘orderby’=> ‘rand’,
‘showposts’ => 100,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1
);
and nothing
help? tnks!