Display Related Post in WordPress

You can

display related post on any page or post in wordpress without any plugin.

Related posts feature can be implemented without the help of any plugins in wordpress based on supporting tags. All we have to do is find the other posts with some same tags as the current post. Just open the single.php file in your wordpress theme and add this bit of code where you want the related posts to show up.

<?php
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($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),
		'showposts'=>5, // Number of related posts that will be shown.
		'caller_get_posts'=>1
	);
	$my_query = new wp_query($args);
	if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
		echo "<h3>Related Posts</h3><ul>";
		while ($my_query->have_posts()) {
			$my_query->the_post();
		?>
			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">< ?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
		<?php
		}
		echo '</ul>';
	}
}
?>

<?php
$categories = get_the_category($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),
		'showposts'=>5, // Number of related posts that will be shown.
		'caller_get_posts'=>1
);
?>