by Cooperative IT 5 (1 reviews)

Embedded Posts

Name: Embedded Posts
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Cooperative IT

Display related posts, pages or CPTs by category, tag or author - or embed any single post, page or CPT anywhere on your site.

Embedded Posts ranks #20,949 among WordPress.org plugins with 50+ active installations, is #467 of 1,454 in the Taxonomy category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Oct 29, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v1.2.9 Current Version v1.2.9

Updated 3 days ago Last Update on 29 Oct, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.2.9
Last Updated: Oct 29, 2026
Requires WP: 5.9+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.2 or higher
Author: Cooperative IT

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Embedded Posts

Toggle any combination of Category, Tag and Author in the Related By section of the settings panel in the Editor (or use the matching shortcode attributes). If you enable both Category and Tag, an AND/OR operator lets you choose whether posts must match both or either.

Use the Single Post section of the settings panel in the Editor to search by title or enter a Post ID, then place the block or shortcode wherever on the page, post, template or template part you want that content to appear.

Blocks are more configurable by the end user in terms of the content they show and their style. Shortcodes come with their own template, some of which is customizable, and hence a slightly more fixed appearance.

The Embedded Posts setting menu allows you to select components to be visible along side the corresponding CSS for custom formatting. If you require anymore functionality than this we would recommend exploring the block side of Embedded Posts.

You can use either. If you always want to show some related posts for example every time someone creates a blog post, then by all means add a embedded block with your criteria to a template. You may just want the odd bit of embedded content every now and again, in which case just add it to your content as you go.

Yes. The post or page that has an embedded block in it will update with your site. So for example a block with the 'last three posts' from an author will always show the last three. If you wanted to fix those posts, you could create three blocks that matched to a single post by title or ID. (Note: These will not change unless you deleted the post or changed the post ID or Title of the related content.) Equally, if you change the content in the post/page/CPT that has been embedded in another post/page/CPT, that embedded content will also show as changed/updated.

Embedded Posts functionality enables you to search for Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, or any combination thereof. You can achieve this by utilizing the Post Type box or by setting the post_type variable in the shortcode.

There may be cases when you want to use the query block instead of Embedded Posts e.g. if you want to show a list of unrelated content * maybe posts about "trees" on a page that is not in the "trees" category. Embedded Posts was built to deal with some of the cases that the Query Block doesn't offer. Embedded Posts is really good if you want to show just single post/page/CPT selected by title or ID. you have a number of Tags AND/OR Categories that you want to match content with. you want to gather content in pages, posts, and custom content types together. you want to set up page/post templates that automagically show related content.

We've tested Embedded Posts with a number of caching plugins, and we've not found any problems. The cases where caching could interfere are: 1. When content which is embedded and reused elsewhere on the site is updated it should also be updated in the embedded block where it is being reused. 2. Where an Embedded Post block shows the 'most recent three posts' and a new post of that type is added, it should automatically update the embedded content if a more recent post is created. The behaviour described above does not seem to be effected by caching plugins. If you are experiencing a problem with this behaviour, please disable your caching plugin, test, and report your findings to us. See the Support Section above for details on how to do that.

Embedded Posts will save some data in your database about the default options for the plugin and any other options you choose in the Embedded Posts settings. When you deactivate the plugin those options will remain in the database, so if you then reactivate the plugin those settings will still apply. However, if you uninstall the plugin that data is deleted. If you have created posts or pages with Embedded Posts on them and the plugin is deactivated or uninstalled, those posts and pages will still contain Embedded Posts data. If you used a shortcode, then the text for that shortcode will show up on the page. If you used the Embedded Posts block this will revert to a standard query loop block, meaning that some embedded posts will still show although probably not in the configuration you originally intended. In order to tidy up those posts/pages you would need to edit each of them in turn.