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Same Category Posts

v1.1.18
by Daniel Floeter · 4.7 (13 reviews)

Show posts related to the current category or other custom post types.

4K+ active installs Updated Apr 09, 2024 Tested to 6.5.3
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About Same Category Posts

Same Category Posts is a widget for WordPress that shows a list of related posts with the same Post Type as the current post. It has features such as custom post types support, the ability to filter by popular posts, and the option to show post thumbnails. It also allows for placeholders in the title string for dynamic content.

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Same Category Posts screenshot
Same Category Posts screenshot
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Changelog

1.1.18 – March 01 2023

  • Cleanup for anchor title

1.1.17 – June 18 2022

  • Bugfix Excerpt length overrides other filters

1.1.16 – June 05 2022

  • Bugfix Showing to much posts from not related categories

1.1.15 – January 27 2022

  • Bugfix HTML entities in title attributes

1.1.14 – January 17 2022

  • Bugfix Exclude

1.1.13 – July 29 2021

  • Include archive pages

1.1.12 – July 20 2021

  • jQuery Helper warnings

1.1.11 – April 06 2021

  • Bugfix Thumbnail to top

1.1.10 – April 04 2021

  • Bugfix Title splits with Safari

1.1.9 – March 19 2021

  • Bugfix Same Taxonomies
  • Bugfix Collect Post Types

1.1.8 – March 01 2021

  • Bugfix Duplicate post content

1.1.7 – December 04 2020

  • Bugfix Ensure the current post object

1.1.6 – October 08 2020

  • Support child categories
  • Bugfix Not assigned categories exclude child categories

1.1.5 – Septemer 27 2020

  • Bugfix Posts are from all categories
  • Bugfix Don’t use the thumbnail, if it is cropped

1.1.4 – September 17 2020

  • Bugfix Finding the current post is overwritten by other widgets

1.1.3 – November 19 2019

  • Add option to exclude children
  • Add option to exclude without exclude children

1.1.2 – November 03 2019

  • Bugfix for exclude sticky posts

1.1.1 – November 02 2019

  • Exclude sticky posts

1.1.0 – November 02 2017

  • Custom Post Type support

1.0.12 – June 15 2017

  • Bugfix for if widget title as a link, there are HTML special characters in the rendered output
  • Bugfix for no posts are displayed, if some categories are excluded

1.0.11 – May 20 2017

  • Add a filter hook for the post titles ‘widget_title’
  • Add option to format the date

1.0.10 – January 01 2017

  • Patch panels do not open

1.0.9 – December 31 2016

  • Add option to exclude multi categories (pull-request from arielcannal)
  • Add panels on the admin sites

1.0.8 – Juli 07 2016

  • Add option seperate categories if more than one is assigned
  • Add option change excerpt ‘more’ text.
  • Title show and link to all referenced categories
  • Additional placeholder %cat-all% gets (show and link) all referenced categories

1.0.7 – June 26 2016

  • Show all assigned categories

1.0.6 – June 05 2016

  • Added option to show post author

1.0.5 – April 02 2016

  • Added Custom Post Types support

1.0.4 – April 02 2016

  • Add option CSS cropping for thumbnails.

1.0.3

  • Placeholder in title string
  • Added Option exclude current post
  • CSS class for current post
  • Bugfixes

1.0.2

  • Added Option to change ordering of posts
  • Added Option to make the widget title link to the category page
  • Added Option to put thumbnail on top
  • Added Option to show/hide the title
  • Fixed no background bug.

1.0.1

  • Option exclude a category.

1.0

  • Initial release.

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