RelatIQ - Related Posts

Help readers discover their next article. RelatIQ recommends related posts from your own WordPress content, giving blogs, magazines and content libraries a way to surface articles worth rediscovering. 100% free. No premium version. Every feature included. All six layouts, editorial controls, reports and layout experiments are available without a subscription, paid add-on or license key. Give readers a useful next step

• Match your content locally. Find related articles from shared words in titles and content. Article text stays on your site; no account or external AI service is required.
• Choose the recommendations. Pin articles in your preferred order, exclude unsuitable suggestions, select eligible post types and set an optional age limit.
• Place them where they help. Display recommendations after the article, after a chosen paragraph or heading, or wherever you insert the block or shortcode.
• Preview before saving. See your articles at desktop and mobile widths. Try three presets and adjust spacing, colors, images and typography.
• Follow indexing progress. See processed articles, elapsed time, estimates for the current step and a manual Run next batch control when background work is waiting.
• Learn from local reports. Optionally measure impressions, clicks and CTR, or compare two layouts with a cookie-free A/B test. Reporting and experiments start disabled.
• Manage a growing library. Inspect content health, diagnose missing matches, import/export settings and use Site Health checks or WP-CLI tools.

Six layouts, all included

• Cards: image-led recommendations with titles and excerpts.
• List: compact rows that fit naturally beneath an article.
• Hero spotlight: highlight one story with supporting picks.
• Magazine: wide image-and-text rows for editorial pages.
• Minimal grid: a clean, text-first layout without thumbnails.
• Carousel: a horizontal article strip with scrolling and keyboard focus.

See Screenshots for each layout, then preview your articles in Design studio. Block, shortcode and automatic placement Insert the RelatIQ Related Posts block in the WordPress block editor, enable automatic placement, or add this shortcode: [relatiq layout="magazine-split" count="3" title="Explore this topic"] Automatic display skips articles containing a RelatIQ block or shortcode. If your theme template includes the block, disable automatic display to avoid duplication. The original [rltiq_related_posts_ai] shortcode is also supported. Content matching you control RelatIQ uses word overlap and local relevance scoring, not generative AI. Pins appear first. If matches are scarce, optional fallback suggestions use shared taxonomy terms or recent eligible articles. Only published, public, password-free content is eligible. Global exclusions, per-article exclusions and age limits apply to pins, matches and fallback suggestions. Same-language matching reads WPML or Polylang language information when available; articles with unknown language remain eligible. Matching quality varies by language and writing style. Privacy and optional reporting Matching runs in your WordPress database. No article text or automatic off-site telemetry is sent to the author. Reports start disabled. When enabled, your site's /wp-json/rltiq/v1/event endpoint receives source/destination article IDs, layout, experiment variant, a link signature and a random event ID. Daily aggregate counts are kept for up to 90 days; no analytics cookies or visitor profiles are created. Impressions require half the item to be visible. Counts are not unique visitors or proof of traffic lift. Temporary keyed IP hashes and click IDs limit abuse and duplicates, expiring after two and ten minutes; database cleanup depends on cron. RelatIQ stores no raw IP addresses. Other plugins and server logs are outside its control. Disabling reports stops recording; existing data remains until expiry or deletion. Images load from your media, CDN or fallback-image host. Credit, review and license links open external sites when clicked. See Settings > Privacy for policy text and docs/technical-notes.md for technical details.

1. Upload the plugin ZIP through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, or copy the relatiq folder into wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate RelatIQ and open RelatIQ > Setup guide.
3. Select your content types. Use Save and choose a design, preview a layout, choose whether to show credit, and start indexing.
4. Review an article on your site. Adjust the design, editorial picks and placement as needed.
5. Enable reports in Reports if you want engagement measurements.

Quick-start credit behavior: Use saved settings and start enables the public author link to VPNDeals (https://vpndeals.com/), even if previously disabled, and starts indexing. This is explained above the button. To keep credit off, follow step 3. You can also disable it in RelatIQ > Support. Quick start does not enable reports or experiments. Background work needs WP-Cron, server cron or an existing Action Scheduler installation. On a quiet site, use Run next batch or the WP-CLI command in the FAQ.

3.4.2

• Make Use saved settings and start enable public author credit before indexing, with its destination and override behavior explained above the button.
• Keep the normal design setup path, Support opt-out and reporting choices available.
• Synchronize quick-start previews with saved settings and clarify free feature availability in the directory documentation. Earlier releases and upgrade notes are included in changelog.txt.