Kreativ Smart Related Posts

Help readers find their next interesting article. Kreativ Smart Related Posts recommends published posts that share categories and tags with the current post, with controls to fine-tune the result.

It works out of the box with taxonomy-based related posts and can optionally use the WordPress AI Client to re-rank candidates for stronger semantic relevance.

Make recommendations your own

• Display recommendations automatically after single posts, or place them with a block or shortcode.
• Choose a grid, list, or minimal layout and customize thumbnails, accent color, columns, and card radius.
• Pin or exclude specific posts using the post editor’s manual controls.
• Choose whether to show excerpts, dates, categories, or fallback posts.
• Cache results and optionally enable background AI re-ranking through the WordPress AI Client.

AI is optional and disabled by default. Category and tag matching works without an AI provider or API key.

Backwards compatibility:
– Existing installations retain the legacy shortcodes [smart_related_posts] and [kreativ_related_articles] when those names are not already registered by another plugin.
– Sites previously using direct OpenAI must configure a WordPress AI provider and explicitly re-enable AI re-ranking. Older WordPress versions continue to display taxonomy-based recommendations.

Source Code

All plugin source files, including the block editor JavaScript and CSS, are included in the plugin. No build step is required. The maintained source is available at https://github.com/aolaru/kreativ-smart-related-posts.

External Services

When you enable AI re-ranking, source post titles and excerpts and candidate IDs, titles and excerpts are sent through the WordPress AI Client to the provider configured for your site. Consult that provider’s privacy policy and terms before enabling it. This requires WordPress 7.0 or later, a configured text-generation provider, and caching. Requests run in a scheduled background task for published posts. No external AI request is made by default.