Introducing Related Posts

Pretty big deal to finally get related posts across WordPress.com launched. This is running 1 million Elasticsearch queries an hour against 500 million documents. More details to come…

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Do you ever wonder what happens when your readers reach the end of your posts? What do they click on? Where do they go next? What if you’ve piqued a reader’s interest and left them wanting more, but don’t give them the option to do so?

Today, we’re so happy to announce Related Posts on WordPress.com — one of the most requested features from users. Now, we’ll search your site for similar posts you’ve written and display a “Related” section at the end of every post, like this:

Related Posts section
Related Posts section

If you post a lot of images, you can jazz this section up with post thumbnails as well. To activate image thumbnails, head to Settings → Reading and scroll down to the “Related Posts” section.

Thumbnails option enabled.
Thumbnails option enabled

It’s mobile ready of course:

Related Posts, mobile view
Related Posts, mobile view

We’re excited about this feature — it allows your readers to dive…

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