Nikk.Agency Related Flow

Nikk.Agency Related Flow is a lightweight related-content plugin for blogs, magazines, and news websites where relevance, freshness, and multilingual content matter.

It finds related posts using shared WordPress tags while strictly respecting a configurable freshness window.

You can automatically place related recommendations in up to four configurable positions inside an article and add a separate related-post list after the content.

Nikk.Agency Related Flow also provides centralized tag-matching rules.

Ignored tags never participate in matching.

Priority tags take precedence over ordinary tags. If the current post contains one or more configured priority tags, the plugin first searches using only those priority tags. One matching priority tag is enough, while candidates sharing more priority tags rank higher.

If no fresh related post is found during the priority-tag pass, the plugin automatically falls back to the post’s other non-ignored tags and applies the normal minimum-shared-tags setting.

With Polylang, related posts remain in the language of the current post. Ignored and priority rules automatically apply to translated versions of configured tags.

Each recommendation can display its publication date and time together with the exact clickable tags that caused the match.

A dedicated CSS / Styles settings tab lets administrators customize backgrounds, colors, fonts, font sizes, weights, spacing, separators, radius, metadata, matched tags, and other visual properties. The built-in Nikk.Agency styling values are provided as editable defaults.

Administrators can also enable “Use site/theme styles” to disable the plugin stylesheet completely and let the active WordPress theme control the appearance.

There are no thumbnails in the plugin output, sliders, JavaScript, AJAX requests, external APIs, tracking calls, or remote services.

Built for real multilingual publishing

Nikk.Agency Related Flow was originally developed for the multilingual publishing environment operated by Nikk.Agency.

The plugin is used in real production workflows and is continuously refined for the NAnews media project, where related-content logic has to work reliably across multiple language versions.

This real-world use case is one of the main reasons the plugin focuses on strict freshness limits, language-aware matching, configurable priority and ignored tags, and predictable internal linking for multilingual news and content websites.

Developed by Nikk.Agency

Nikk.Agency Related Flow is developed and maintained by Nikk.Agency, a digital marketing and SEO agency based in Haifa, Israel.

Nikk.Agency works with SEO promotion, lead generation, Google Ads, Google Maps visibility, AEO, AI-assistant visibility, and internet marketing.

The agency also develops and maintains the NAnews media project, where Nikk.Agency Related Flow is actively refined for multilingual publishing and internal-linking workflows.

Features

• Related posts based on shared WordPress tags.
• Configurable freshness window from 1 to 365 days.
• Strict freshness validation before related posts are displayed.
• Admin-configured ignored tags that never participate in matching.
• Admin-configured priority tags that take precedence over ordinary tags.
• Automatic fallback to non-ignored ordinary tags when no fresh priority match exists.
• One shared priority tag is sufficient; candidates matching more priority tags rank higher.
• Polylang automatically applies ignored and priority rules to translated versions of selected tags.
• Configurable minimum number of shared tags for normal matching.
• Four optional inline placements by paragraph number.
• Optional end-of-content related-post list.
• Posts with more shared tags rank higher.
• Newer posts break ties between equally relevant candidates.
• No duplicate recommendations within the same post.
• Strict Polylang language validation prevents recommendations from leaking across languages.
• Publication date and time can be shown or hidden.
• Shows the exact shared tags used to match each recommendation.
• Matched tags are clickable and link to their WordPress tag archives.
• Transient caching to reduce repeated database work.
• Cache invalidation when posts or post tags change.
• Lightweight CSS with logical properties for RTL support.
• Dedicated CSS / Styles settings tab.
• Editable background, text, accent and separator colors.
• Editable font family, font sizes, font weights, spacing, radius and padding.
• Separate styling controls for labels, headings, related-post titles, dates, matched tags and developer credit.
• Nikk.Agency style values are pre-filled as editable defaults.
• Optional “Use site/theme styles” mode disables the plugin stylesheet completely.
• Polylang integration keeps recommendations in the current post language.
• Editable front-end labels in the plugin settings.
• Automatic built-in label translations for Polylang languages, with per-language manual overrides.
• Polylang String Translations compatibility for the base labels.
• Request-local marker rendering helps prevent later content filters from rewriting the plugin markup.
• Developer filters for query arguments, selected post IDs, and rendered HTML.
• Optional developer credit link in the end-of-content block.
• Developer credit is disabled by default and appears only after explicit administrator opt-in.
• No JavaScript or AJAX on the front end.
• No external APIs, tracking, analytics, or remote assets.

Privacy

Nikk.Agency Related Flow does not collect, transmit, or track personal data.

The plugin does not contact external servers, use analytics or tracking services, or load remote assets.