Description
Mevabi – Related Posts Inline lets you automatically insert related posts directly inside your post content — not just at the bottom. Keep readers engaged by surfacing relevant content right where their attention is.
Key Features
- Two placement modes — Insert related posts at the end of the content, or distribute them inline evenly throughout paragraphs.
- Three modern layouts — Choose the style that fits your theme:
- Design 1 · Solid + Arrow — Full-color card with a large right-hand arrow CTA. Section title displayed above the box.
- Design 2 · Grey · Centered — Subtle light-grey card, centered text, section title inside the box. No arrow.
- Design 3 · Image + Arrow — Same as Design 1 but with the featured image displayed on the left side of the card.
- Fully clickable cards — The entire card area is a single link; no awkward partial click zones.
- Per-design color customization — Every color (background, hover, title, excerpt, arrow, section label, border, border-radius) is individually configurable via native color pickers in the admin.
- Optional post excerpt — Show a short, clean text excerpt (shortcodes and HTML stripped automatically). If the post begins with a shortcode it is skipped and the first real text paragraph is used instead.
- Typography controls — Set font sizes (in any CSS unit) for the section title, post title, and excerpt independently.
- Match by category or tags — Choose which taxonomy drives the “related” logic.
- Link target — Open related post links in the same tab or a new tab (with proper
rel="noopener noreferrer"). - Section title — Define a custom heading shown above (or inside) each related posts block.
- 1–3 posts — Display one, two, or three related posts per block.
- Lightweight — No jQuery, no external libraries; vanilla JS + a single small CSS file.
Privacy
This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.
Screenshots
Design 1 – Solid color card with arrow CTA, title above the box. 
Design 2 – Light grey card, centered text, title inside the box. 
Design 3 – Solid color card with featured image on the left and arrow CTA. 
Admin – General settings tab. 
Admin – Design & Colors tab with live color pickers. 
Admin – Typography tab. 
Installation
- Upload the
mevabi-related-posts-inlinefolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install via Plugins Add New in your WordPress admin. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu.
- Go to Settings Related Posts Inline to configure the plugin.
FAQ
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No. Related posts are injected only on single blog posts (
is_single()), in the main query loop. -
What happens if a post has no matching category or tag?
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No block will be shown. The content is returned unmodified.
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What happens if the content has fewer than two paragraphs and inline mode is selected?
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The plugin automatically falls back to appending the block at the end of the content.
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Does Design 3 require a featured image?
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No. If a related post has no featured image the card is displayed without the image column.
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Is the excerpt safe from shortcode execution?
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Yes. All shortcode tags are stripped with a regex before the text is sanitized, so no shortcode is ever executed inside the excerpt area.
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Can I use this plugin on a multisite installation?
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Yes. Settings are stored per-site using the standard WordPress options API.
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Contributors & Developers
“Mevabi – Related Posts Inline” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.