A few weeks ago, I’ve showed how to display the most popular posts in the sidebar. Another way of getting more interested readers and pageviews is to display related posts in single posts. This is great for the readers as well, because they’ll get exposed to content that is related to what they’ve just finished reading.

There’s more than one plugin that can help you display related posts, but the one that I currently use is the Related Posts plugin by Wasabi. The instructions regarding installation and usage are very good and easy to follow. The only problem that I see is that some people might not understand how to call the plugin. Well, it says that the plugin is called using related_posts();, but where do you put this?

To help you out, I’m providing step-by-step instructions according to how I’ve done it in this blog:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels;
2. Go to the Related Posts Options (Plugins>Related Posts Options);
3. Add the following:
   Before / After (Post Title) : <li> / </li>
4. Open the single.php file of your current theme (wp-content\themes);
5. Add the following after the div containing <?php the_content(); ?> (This should work for most themes. If it doesn’t for the one that you want, leave a comment or ask for support in the WPDesigner forums):
   <div class="related_posts">
<h4>Related Posts</h4>
<ul><?php related_posts(); ?></ul>
</div> <!-- related_posts -->
6. Your single posts now display a list of related posts!

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