Months back I have written post on WordPress plugin to Show related post and Linkwithin widget to reduce Bounce rate for WordPress. Personally I enjoyed using Linkwithin widget but it comes with some downfall as posts are not linked directly.
My friend Sandeep from blogsdna has come with a very useful plugin to show related post in WordPress with thumbnail. This is the same plugin which I’m using now at the bottom of the post.
This plugin will show related posts based in context and you can configure lots of settings from plugin option page.
This plugin is not yet officially released in wordpress directory but you can expect to see it with in next few days.
Here is screenshot of Plugin in action and its option page.
This plugin is more like plug and play. You can make changes in CSS and design from the plugin editor page. Though even if you don’t this plugin will look good to start with.
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Do let us know about your opinion about this plugin, any suggestion and idea will help the author to improve the plugin.
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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Thanks alot Harsh for reviewing Wp-Thumbie. I hope your blogger readers will find it useful.
Sandip its a very useful plugin and I’m sure users will love to use it. Thanks for wonderful plugin.
The plugin looks good but takes more space than LinkWithin.
Sourish the benefit of this plugin is interlinking along with usability. Link with in does not provide SEO benefits as your posts are not directly linked with each other.
Thats true.Either Linkwithin or Blogs DNA should come up with a more compact version with the above features meantioned by you.
Sourish I think that’s fair. If you are using link with in plugin, they also put the same link. I guess plugin author deserver a link back.. How does it make a difference? Specially when you getting better feature then link with in plugin and just one backlink like link with in?
Thats the real benefit of this plugin. I didn’t noticed that.
Anyway one more thing they also put their small link too after related posts… thats really irritating!
Shahab I had a word with Sandip , the author of the plugin and he confirmed me that inn upcoming update, they will give an option to remove credit..
I am not sure how you comparing Linkwithin space consumption with wp-thumbie. Wp-thumbie provides you option to change thumbnail size along with option to change number of posts to show.
Feature plugin update will let you to have horizontal styling too. so your space concerns wont be any issue with wp-thumbie.
will use this on my blog now, Thanx for sharing
can u suggest the best Adsense plugin for WP ?
You welcome.
For adsense you can try
Quick adsense or whytodowork adsense plugin.
Thanx Harsh, am using whytodowork on my blogs and will do the needful settings.
Nice Thumbnail Related Posts Plugin but i want to ask that can these posts in vertical or in columns.Thanks ..
As of now we have vertical and row format listing (when you want your own styling) and soon horizontal style listing will be added in next plugin update. So you will have complete freedom with styling part as well as full customization to suite your need.
Thanks Sandip.Waiting for the next Update
I tried this plugin on my blog…but its not showing up the thumbnails. Don’t know why?
Anyway i’ll try it once more
Shahab check with the settings and also permission of cache folder..
There are some requirements for this plugin to work.
1: WordPress 2.5+ : this is no problem for me.
2: Php GD library in webhost: but what’s this???
Going to google it!
Php GD library is for image processing. since wp-thumbie on fly generates thumbnails it requires Php GD library to do so.
99% of webhost has php GD library so it wont be issue for most users.
have you set wp-thumbie and wp-thumbie/cache folder permissions to 777 ??
I will have a look at the plugin, what’s the difference between this and YARP?
George
The basic difference is thumbnails..which make them more attractive..
I guess if you want the thumbnail then it’s ok, I doubt if this really makes any difference to the user having thumbnails. It’s just my opinion thogh
George Thumbnail make it interesting and increase the CTR. Remember images speaks 100 words, same thing is here… I have seen the difference in my no. of page views after using this plugin.
Have you ever tracked how your visitors utilizing your related posts links ? I am sure you haven’t.
Give it a try and see the difference.
Thumbnail in related posts is an awesome feature and it can reduce the page bounce rate.
But I am struggling to get it done correctly on my blog.
Surender I guess that’s because of your blog CSS. Please check with that or let me know in case if I can help you with it.
Harsh,
I must admit that linkwithin is very good. it has improved the bounce rate. But this is very good as the link is internal not redirected from other site.
Thanks for sharing. Will head to blogsdna and install it.
I like the CSS you have applied above for related post and also sidebar.
Thanks Nihar. You are right about the internal linking advantage and that’s why now I prefer this one over linkwithin.
Dinesh it is and it has extra edge over SEO . Since Likwithin only helps in reducing bounce rate but no extra edge for SEO.
Thanks for the post dude….
I am going to try it on ma blog
far better when compared with link within..
hope that the author releases the latest version soon with the option to leave the credit…
Hi, I also use Thesis theme but according to the thesis team, it’s imossible to display thumbnail retrieved from the post image as it’s stored in custom fields and I’ve talked to Sadip about this problem. Surprisingly you use Thesis and it works here. Could you advise how to make this plugin compatible with thesis theme. Thank you in advance.
Hi Ed,
Yea I have got couple of users reporting issue with thesis theme, dont worry next release of wp-thumbie will provide you option to use image as attachment or using custom field.
That will take care of all thesis theme users.
As always I find something else to help me out at Shout Me Out Loud, just installed Thesis and wasn’t happy with how YARPP was displaying along with my Twitter and Facebook share buttons.
This looks much better, now I just need to figure out how to color it and I will be set. Thank you and RT
Extreme I’m glad you find it useful. Here are my codes. Hope it will help you to design your theme related post.
/******************************************************************//* WP-Thumbie */
#wp_thumbie {background:#FFFBCC; font-family:verdana,arila,serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; color:#4E4848;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;}
#wp_thumbie_image { float:left; margin: 2px 10px 5px 7px; padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border:1px solid #EBDDE2;}
#wp_thumbie_title {padding:2px 2px 2px 0px;}
#wp_thumbie_title a{font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; text-transform:none; letter-spacing:0px; line-height:1.1em; text-decoration:none; color:#386990;}
#wp_thumbie_title a:hover{color:#386990; text-decoration:none; }
#wp_thumbie_thumb, #description {margin-left:0px;}
#wp_thumbie_li {border-bottom:1px solid #EBDDE2; padding: 5px 5px 10px 0px;}
#wp_thumbie_li:hover{background:#fafafa;}
#wp_thumbie_rl1 {color:#333333; font-family:Georgia,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:1.1em; font-weight:bold;line-height:1.4em;margin:0 0 8px;}
#wp_thumbie_rl2 {font-size:10px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;}
/******************************************************************/
Did it working with external image, like from other server
No….
I am using this plugin thanks to your referrel, I do have a question though. How did you get rid of the silly link that they forced into the box?
Extreme John
I Edited the plugin file.
Hi, you aren’t using it at the moment
Seoux I was using it, but due to server load I have to remove it, since pulling lots of thumbnails, create lots of php calls. I will be moving to more powerful dedicated server and than I will use it.
Thanks for the post “Wp-Thumbie”
I am going to try it on ma blog.
I had a problem with WP-thumbie before not generating thumbnails on another site but I figure it’s probably the theme. I’d like to incorporate it but was wondering if it works with the atahualpa theme. Also is horizontal column styling available now?
Hey harsh, i agree with you, this is a heavy plugin so i think to reduce load time i would probably use YARRP. What say?
– Rakesh
yes i’ve set wp-thumbie permission to 777 but i am still getting problems!
I think the problem may be due to css!