Title: Author Recommended Posts
Author: telepathy
Published: <strong>December 7, 2012</strong>
Last modified: January 27, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Author Recommended Posts

 By [telepathy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dtelepathy/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/author-recommended-posts.zip)

 * [Details](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/author-recommended-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/author-recommended-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/author-recommended-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/author-recommended-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/author-recommended-posts/)

## Description

#### Simple Author Recommended Posts Plugin

Author Recommended Posts lets you easily search and choose specific posts, pages
and custom post types you want to associate to a post or page. You can add, reorder,
remove selected posts for display via the simple drag and drop interface.

#### Features

 * Simple clean styles for basic layout/structure
 * Show/hide output title & featured images
 * Display your recommended posts vertically or side-by-side
 * Filter which content is searchable and which post types to automatically output
   on

**Requirements:** WordPress 3.3+, PHP5 and higher

This plugin is free to use and is not actively supported by the author, but will
be monitored for serious bugs that may need correcting.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The search meta box.
 * [[
 * Horizontal output after the post, with thumbnails.
 * [[
 * Vertical output after the post, with thumbnails.
 * [[
 * Vertical output after the post, without thumbnails.

## Installation

The plugin is simple to install:

 1. Upload `author-recommended-posts` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
 3. Visit the options in, Settings > Author Recommended Posts
 4. Go to a post, page or your custom post type and choose your recommended posts

## FAQ

  Can I output using a template tag?

Of course! Just include `<?php echo do_shortcode( '[AuthorRecommendedPosts post_id
="XXX"]' ); ?>` where _XXX_ is the ID of the post, or you can leave it out if you
include it in the loop. i.e. `<?php echo do_shortcode( '[AuthorRecommendedPosts]');?
>`

  I want to make it fit the style of my site better

We left the styles pretty generic so it is simple enough to update to fit your theme
style. Of course some CSS writing will be required.

  Is there a widget?

At this time no, we want to add this in though. So keep your eyes peeled.

  Why did you make this?

We did not really find any plugins out there that does just this. And we wanted 
something quick, simple, and easy to use.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Easy To Use & Works Perfectly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-to-use-works-perfectly-9/)󠁿

 [Mason](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ingie212/) November 3, 2016

Great job on this plugin. Please keep it up and running for many many years

 [ Read all 9 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/author-recommended-posts/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Author Recommended Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ telepathy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dtelepathy/)
 *   [ John ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oriontimbers/)
 *   [ dtlabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dtlabs/)
 *   [ kynatro ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kynatro/)
 *   [ jamie3d ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jamie3d/)
 *   [ bkenyon ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bkenyon/)
 *   [ moonspired ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/moonspired/)

[Translate “Author Recommended Posts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/author-recommended-posts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/author-recommended-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/author-recommended-posts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/author-recommended-posts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/author-recommended-posts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.3

 * Changed plugin URL constant to properly respect https scheme

#### 1.0.2

 * Added 2 new actions author_recommended_posts_before_related and author_recommended_posts_after_related
   that can be hooked into for outputting custom content before or after each related
   entry

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed posts search order to Desc
 * Updateing namespacing in admin.js

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.3**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-recommended-posts/)
 * Tags
 * [author posts](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-posts/)[reading](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reading/)
   [recommended](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recommended/)[related posts](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/related-posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/author-recommended-posts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ telepathy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dtelepathy/)
 *   [ John ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oriontimbers/)
 *   [ dtlabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dtlabs/)
 *   [ kynatro ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kynatro/)
 *   [ jamie3d ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jamie3d/)
 *   [ bkenyon ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bkenyon/)
 *   [ moonspired ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/moonspired/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/author-recommended-posts/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.dtelepathy.com/labs)