Please follow these step to configurate properly our plugin.
1. Go to TIP Plugins > TIP Related Posts Pro page and open the Plugin settings tab
Below the list of all available options:
Appearance settings
– Layout, Choose the layout style for the related posts section.
– – Classic layout
– – Hero layout
– – List layout
– – HTML list layout
– Columns, Specify the number of columns for displaying the related posts in a grid format.
– – One column
– – Two columns
– – Three columns
– – Four columns
– – Five columns
– Content Alignment, Set the alignment of the content within the related posts section.
– – Left
– – Center
– – Right
– Border Color, Choose the color for the border surrounding the related posts section.
– Navigation Arrows Color, Set the color of the navigation arrows in the related posts carousel.
– Navigation Arrows Hover Color, Set the color of the navigation arrows in the related posts carousel when hovered.
– Dots Color, Choose the color of the dots used for pagination in the related posts carousel.
– Dots Hover Color, Set the color of the pagination dots in the carousel when hovered.
– Links Hover Color, Define the hover color for links.
– Top Margin, Specify the margin space above the related posts section.
– Bottom Margin, Specify the margin space below the related posts section.
Post elements settings
– Enable the section title , Would you like to display the section title?
– Section title , Insert the title of the related posts section.
– Enable the post title , Would you like to display the post title?
– Linkable post title , Would you like to link the post title to the full content?
– Enable the featured image , Would you like to display the featured image?
– Linkable featured image , Would you like to link the featured image to the full content?
– Enable the post date , Would you like to display the post date?
– Date format
– Enable the post author , Would you like to display the post author?
– Enable the post author label , Would you like to display the post author label?
– Post author label , Insert the label of the post author.
– Linkable post author , Would you like to link the post author to their author page?
– Enable the post summary , Would you like to display the post summary?
– Truncate post content , Would you like to truncate long post content (title and summary) with ellipsis?
Carousel settings
– Enable the carousel , Would you like to enable the post carousel? (Important: The carousel is not available on AMP pages)
– Enable the carousel navigation , Would you like to enable the carousel navigation?
– Enable the carousel dots , Would you like to enable the carousel dots?
– Carousel Item Height , Adjust the height of carousel items. Choose to match the height based on the visible items or set all items to the height of the tallest one.
– – Disabled
– – Match height based on visible items
– – Match height to the tallest item
Typography settings
– Background color , colorpicker to select the background color for the button
– Section title font size , Specify the font size for title of the related posts section
– Post title font size , Specify the font size for post titles
– Post meta font size , Specify the font size for post metadata (e.g., author, date)
– Post summaries font size , Specify the font size for post summaries
– Default font size (Mobile) , Specify the default font size on mobile devices (CSS media query: 0 to 480px).
– Default font size (Tablet) , Specify the default font size on tablet devices (CSS media query: 481px to 768px).
Search engine settings
– Order by , Select how to order the related posts.
– – Post title
– – Randomly
– – Post date
– Sort order , Select the ordering of related posts.
– – Ascending
– – Descending
– Post count , How many related posts do you want to display?.
– Search engine , How do you want to get the related posts?
– – Based of post categories
– – Based of post tags
– – Categories and post tags
– – Post title (Using the full title to search the related posts)
– – Post title (Use the full title to search the related posts), filter posts by retrieving only those in the same post categories
– – Post title (Use the full title to search the related posts), filter posts by retrieving only those in the same post tags
– – Post title (Using each word in the title to search the related posts)
– – Post title (Use each word in the title to search the related posts), filter posts by retrieving only those in the same post categories
– – Post title (Use each word in the title to search the related posts), filter posts by retrieving only those in the same post tags
– – Based of custom keywords
– – Based of custom keywords, filter posts by retrieving only those in the same post categories
– – Based of custom keywords, filter posts by retrieving only those in the same post tags
– Target attribute , Set the target attribute
– – _self , to open the related content on the same window
– – _blank , to open the related content in a new window
– Rel attribute , Set the rel attribute
– – dofollow
– – nofollow
– the_content hook priority , If the related contents does not show, please change the priority of the_content hook.
Featured image settings
– Hide posts without the featured image , Do you want to hide all posts without the featured image?
– Placeholder image , Do you want to view a placeholder image, if the featured image is not defined?
– Featured image width , Set the width of the featured image.
– Featured image height , Set the height of the featured image.
– Set image crop , Choose whether to scale the image while maintaining proportions (off) or crop it to the specified dimensions using the center (on).
Filter settings
– Device , Select one or more device where you want to load the related posts
– Categories to exclude , Select one or more categories to exclude from the related posts
– Post tags to exclude , Select one or more post tags to exclude from the related posts
– Post to exclude , Select one or more posts to exclude from the list of related posts
– Posts without related contents , Select one or more posts where you want to remove the related posts
Miscellaneous settings
– Remove related posts in articles where the shortcode is present , You can remove the related contents inside all articles and pages where our shortcode is present.
AMP settings
– Default font size (AMP Pages) , Specify the default font size on Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
– Posts count on AMP pages, How many related posts do you want to display on AMP pages?.
Custom post types settings
– Supported custom post types , Enable one or more custom post type (Important: unlike the WordPress posts, you can not use yet a specific taxonomy if the custom post type uses more than one taxonomy, such as WooCommerce. In this case, the list of related product will be generated based of the product categories and product tags.)
– Filter by , that means that you can enable one or more associated taxonomies for the selected custom post type
– WordPress pages , Once WordPress pages are enabled, it is possible to include child pages (if available) or link pages together using keywords.