The Related Posts feature pulls relevant content from your blog to display at the bottom of your posts. If the feature is enabled, a section of related posts appears just underneath your Sharing Buttons and WordPress.com Likes (if you’ve turned these on).
To start using Related Posts, head to the Jetpack page in your blog’s dashboard and click the Activate button for Related Posts. You can also customize how the related posts section looks by going to your Settings → Reading page and scrolling down to the options next to “Related posts.”
You can opt to display a “Related” header to better separate the section from the end of your post — just check the box to show a “Related” header.
To make the section more visual, you can check the box next to “Use a large and visually striking layout” to display accompanying images next to the post titles.
Don’t forget to scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Save Changes” after you’re done.
For further customization options, please read the Customize Related Posts page.
General Information
- Your blog must have at least 10 published posts for related content to appear (to avoid simply cross-linking posts with one another).
- Related content is automatically generated based on the content of the post and any tags or categories if they exist.
- This feature uses the WordPress.com infrastructure and mirrors your content there for indexing. If you see intermittent issues only affecting certain posts, you can request a reindex of your site under Jetpack → Related Posts → Learn More.
Details on Related Post Thumbnails
- A post’s featured image will appear as the thumbnail. If you haven’t set a featured image for the post, the feature will pull the first image in the body of the post. Thumbnails are resized and cropped to be the same height and width to improve the layout using Photon.
- If you’ve used a 3rd-party service image (for example, Flickr) in a post, as long as it’s publicly accessible, WordPress.com servers will pull the image, scale it to the appropriate size, and then set it as the post’s thumbnail.
