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Great, I use it on my free websites and would go for the paid if 1 or 2 improvement. The automatic insertion is so-so (see 2 suggestions below) and the manual insertion is VERY nice … but 100% manual. 2 suggestions still for the automatic insertion: to add a user’s class name that could be added manually to any HTML tag, to avoid this tag content/children to have inline links inside which can be very disturbing. This exists in many translation plugins (to avoid the content of that tag to be translated) or automatic ToC plugin (to avoid that H2 or H3 to be in the ToC). I would take the paid version just for that. As others have mentioned, the posts automatically selected do not have much in common. While on a “usual” related post plugin that adds all the links/images at the bottom does not hurt much as there is always one or 2 related, here, in the middle of 2 paragraphs, it frequently looks very unrelated. It would be nice if the automatic insertion would take into account the previous 1 or 2 paragraphs or H2 or both. To not slow down the website, likely some pre-calculation/buffer may be needed. I would pay just for that also.

Documentation could be improved, explaining basic stuff for dummies, however the simplicity of the concept made my day.

Previously used a plugin by MicroKid which is abandoned and doesn’t work with PHP 8. This plugin allows us to manually choose related posts to be shown page by page. And the author gives great support too.

I use it for “Manually selected post”

The posts shown inside a particular post are not related to it in any way. This is just some kind of posts list with thumbnails inside posts, but “related”, no way.

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