Related Posts Thumbnails Plugin for WordPress

4.2.1 – 2025-01-15

• Bugfix: Set default value for new introduced settings.
• Bugfix: Fatal Error resolved from v4.2.0
• Enhancement: Code re-factorization and optimization.

4.2.0 – 2025-01-03

• Bugfix: PHP Warning for translation hook.
• Enhancement: Introducing new feature to show 1st image in the article as thumbnail if featured image is not set.
• Enhancement: Introducing new settings to set the width/height of the thumbnail.
• Enhancement: Introducing new settings to set the column of the thumbnails.
• Enhancement: Related Posts is now AMP compatible.
• Compatibility: Compatible with WordPress 6.7

4.1.0 – 2024-09-11

• Security Fix: Fixed Opt-out and Opt-in consent.
• Enhancement: Code re-factorization and optimization.

4.0.1 – 2024-08-22

• Enhancement: Code re-factorization and optimization.
• Compatibility: Compatible with WordPress 6.6

4.0.0 – 2024-06-11

• Enhancement: Implemented a new feature on the dashboard settings page allowing users to “Copy code to clipboard”.
• Enhancement: Code refactoring.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.5

3.0.2 – 2023-12-13

• Enhancement: Update the attribute aria-lable value for accessibility.

3.0.1 – 2023-11-14

• BugFix: Heading’s font size in list view.
• BugFix: PHP deprecated warnings.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.4
• Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.2

3.0.0 – 2023-11-08

• Enhancement: Introducing new dashboard layout for related post settings.
• Enhancement: Code refactoring.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.4
• Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.2

2.2.0 – 2023-07-21

• New Feature: Introducing new feature to display category on the related post.
• BugFix: Removed depreciated code.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.3

2.1.0 – 2023-01-10

• BugFix: ACF field with image object, URL or ID field.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.1

2.0.3 – 2022-07-06

• BugFix: Custom field compatible with images object or URL field.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 6.0
• Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.1

2.0.2 – 2022-04-19

• BugFix: PHP Warning on Gutenberg block.

2.0.1 – 2022-04-18

• BugFix: The image wasn’t displaying with {custom field name} setting.
• Enhancement: Code refactoring.

2.0.0 – 2022-03-22

• New Feature: Introducing date feature with 7 type of date format.
• Enhancement: Added a filter rpt_custom_relationship to get posts from multiple custom post types with same term slug.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.9.2

1.9.2 – 2022-02-18

• Bugfix: Border style issue.
• Enhancement: Added a filter relpost_anchor_attr to extend the HTML attributes within the related posts thumbnails anchor tag.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.9

1.9.1 – 2021-04-08

• Bugfix: Mobile view layout.
• New Feature : Introducing Lazy Loading filter. Use rpt-lazy-loading filter to enable the lazy loading for thumbnails. By default it’s false.
• Compatibility : Compatible with PHP 8.0

1.9.0 – 2021-03-22

• New Feature : Filter to add custom sizes of thumbnails to choose from.
• New Feature : added ‘rpt_exclude_post’ filter to exclude posts from showing as Related Posts.
• Enhancement : Shortcode attribute to exclude posts from showing as Related Posts.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.7

1.8.3 – 2020-03-21

• New Feature : Filter for related posts background image.
• New Feature : Add option to disable related posts on mobile.

1.8.2 – 2019-10-16

• New Feature : Filter for related post top text.
• New Feature : Filter to prevent image size check on inner post images.
• New Feature : Filter to prevent related posts on builders.
• New Feature : Filter to remove related post with empty custom field.

1.8.1 – 2019-06-25

• Bug Fix : Thumbnails are not showing when post thumbnail source is selected.

1.8.0 – 2019-06-25

• New Feature : Added AMP support.
• New Feature : Filter to disable related posts on AMP.
• New Feature : Filter to style list for related posts on AMP.
• Refactor : Remove unused assets for gutenberg block.
• Bug Fix : Fix query for sorting latest posts.
• Bug Fix : Fix empty vairable check on custom field.

1.7.2 – 2019-06-10

• Bug Fix : Sorting issue when latest posts option selected.

1.7.1 – 2019-05-27

• Bug Fix : Compatibility issue with php 5.3 in newly Gutenberg block.

1.7.0 – 2019-05-24

• New Feature : Added Gutenberg block for Related posts.
• Bug Fix : Empty container class name.
• Bug Fix : Unable to show related posts on empty custom field.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.2

1.6.6 – 2019-03-18

• Enhancement : Add posts_number & posts_sort attributes in [related-posts-thumbnails] shortcode.
• Compatibility : Compatible with WordPress 5.1
• Enhancement : Compatible with PHP 7.3

1.6.5 – 2018-06-14

• Bug Fix : Last update broke layout because of direct function usage in templates.

1.6.4 – 2018-06-06

• Feature : Add sort by option for Related Posts.
• Enhancement : Add class attribute in list styling, if someone wants to style list Related Posts.
• Enhancement : Move thumbnails source option to its own section.
• Enhancement : Minor style changes in settings page.
• Bug Fix : Fonts are unable to change in list output style.
• Bug Fix : Unclosed div making layout break.
• Bug Fix : Left content alignment is breaking layout.
• Bug Fix : Content of alt tag of Related Posts image is breaking layout.

1.6.3 – 2018-03-26

• Feature : Multilingual Compatible. All text is now translateable.
• Feature : Add filter to left, right or center align Related Posts.
• Feature : Add filter to change priority of Related Posts under posts content.
• Enhancement : Add ALT tag in Related Posts thumbnails.
• Enhancement : Replace input types of some fields form text to number.
• Enhancement : Replace default image URL to gallery image selection.
• Enhancement : Replace some ambiguous field’s titles with more clear titles.
• Bug Fix : Fix the undefined index notice on widget title.
• Bug Fix : Fix the image issue in widget.
• Bug Fix : Fix the image issue in thumbnails of Related Posts.

1.6.2 – 2018-02-27

• Feature : Change inline style to class.
• Feature : Add RTL support.
• Bug Fix : Undefined variable on shortcode.
• Bug Fix : Fix encoding tag on excerpt.
• Enhancement : Add color picker on color settings.
• Enhancement : Add date picker on date settings.

1.6.1

• BugFix: Center align output and image.

1.6.0

• Compatible with 4.8
• Multiple bugfixes

1.5.4

• Fixed Category Settings bug.

1.5.3

• [BugFix] Improved.

1.5.2

• [BugFix] Top Text title allows h1 to h6 tags now.

1.5.1

• [BugFix] Removed deprecated constructors for Related Posts widget. Compatible with PHP 7.0

1.5.0

• Major UI changes for admin settings and compatibility with WP 4.5

1.4.0

• compatibility with WP 4.4

1.3.1

• backwards compatibility with WP 2.9

1.3

• Added support of custom post types and custom taxonomies
• Added multibyte strings support
• Fixed a bug with double quotes in title
• Fixed a bug with stripping shortcodes
• Added Indonesian translation

1.2.9

• Fixed bug: when not all categories selected and tags only, wrong behavior
• Optimized performance
• Searching for post thumbnail in post body if no assigned Featured Image was set
• Added possibility to show only posts with thumbnails for themes, that support Post Thumbnails
• Removed filter, responsible for image existence

1.2.8

• Fixed bug, if category has 1 post and relation is based on categories, than no posts will be shown
• Font-family can have quotes in settings
• Added Turkish and German versions

1.2.7

• Added clean HTML option without plugin CSS, fixed background color change

1.2.6

• Fixed relative custom url

1.2.5

• Fixed selection of categories on plugin settings page

1.2.4

• French version updated

1.2.3

• Added option to set theme php resizing script

1.2.2

• Improved plugin performance with high number of posts
• PHP configuration allow_url_fopen is taken into account
• Added start date to exclude old posts
• Fixed display, only posts now
• Separated categories – which are displayed amoung thumbnails and on which thumbnails are displayed
• Random relation, for random posts display
• PHP 4.3 compatible now according to WordPress requirements
• tested with WordPress 3.0

1.2.1

• Thanks to Li-An it now has French version.
• Excerpts will be generated if no excerpt were defined.
• Developer mode to see debugging info in HTML source.

1.2

• added php tag for use in theme
• added option to turn off automatic appending
• set title length 0 for no title
• added excerpt
• added sidebar widget
• added shortcode

1.1.1

• removed PHP warning on settings page somebody may experience
• full HTML support in top text field

1.1

• removed PHP warnings for getimagesize and file if wrong header was received
• fixed Categories and Tags confusion (when you selected Categories relation was based on Tags and vice versa)
• added Categories option to select specific categories
• added post custom field name option as a source for thumbnails

1.0

• Released plugin initial version