SearchWP Related Content

SearchWP Related Content – Use SearchWP to power-related content on your site! SearchWP Related was built to work with minimal overhead, while allowing for customization to any degree. Showing related content to visitors is a great way to keep attention on your site! If you’re already using another system for related content, this SearchWP extension will likely save you some overhead by utilizing the content index it already created.

Setup & Integration

Like all SearchWP Extensions, Related is a standalone WordPress plugin that runs alongside SearchWP. Once installed, Related takes no action by default. You can view the settings screen (found within the Extensions dropdown on the SearchWP settings screen) Note: When activating Related on a site with existing content, entry titles will be used as the default keyword list to find related content. In the Related plugin folder there is another folder named templates containing this default Related template (related.php) used to display Related content. ~/wp-content/plugins/searchwp-related/templates/related.php The contents of this file are as follows: related.php Do not edit this file directly. If you install an update to Related, any customizations you make to this file will be overwritten! Instead, you can utilize the template loader built into Related to add your own custom template within your theme. To customize the output of Related content, create a new folder within your theme and paste a copy of the default Related template into that folder, keeping the same filename: ~/wp-content/themes/my-theme/searchwp-related/related.php You can fully customize this template to meet your needs. It’s based on The Loop, and you can do anything within the template you would in any other theme template.

Template Options

While the template used to show Related content is mostly a standard theme template, you can influence how Related behaves by editing the optional comment block at the top of the file: /** * SearchWP Engine: default * Maximum Results: 3 */ You can customize the SearchWP engine used, and the maximum number of Related entries displayed by editing the applicable line at the top of the template. You can also customize results templates per post type by appending a hyphen and the post type to the file name. For example, if you were to create a template with this filename: ~/wp-content/themes/my-theme/searchwp-related/related-page.php It would be used only for Pages. All other post types would use the base template.