WZ Followed Posts – Display what visitors are reading
by Ajay 3 (2 reviews)

WZ Followed Posts – Display what visitors are reading

Show "Readers who viewed this page, also viewed" a.k.a. followed posts on your page. Much like Amazon.com's product pages.

WZ Followed Posts ranks #10,438 among WordPress.org plugins with 300+ active installations, is #282 of 2,168 in the Analytics category, a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews, and was last updated Oct 10, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4
v3.4.3 Current Version v3.4.3
Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 10 Oct, 2026
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#282 of 2,168 in Analytics Top 25% by installs Downloads +216.7% this week Actively maintained
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#10,438
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Active Installs
300+
-16.7%
KW Avg Position
26.3
0.3 worse
Downloads
46.1K
+10 today
Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
60%
Review 3 out of 5
3 (2 reviews)

Next Milestone 400

Total Progress 58%
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Rank Changes

9,916 10,177 10,438 10,699 10,960 31-10-2026 01-11-2026 02-11-2026 03-11-2026 04-11-2026 05-11-2026 06-11-2026 07-11-2026
10,300 10,353 10,406 10,458 10,511 23-10-2026 24-10-2026 25-10-2026 26-10-2026 27-10-2026 28-10-2026 29-10-2026 30-10-2026 31-10-2026 01-11-2026 02-11-2026 03-11-2026 04-11-2026 05-11-2026 06-11-2026 07-11-2026
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Reviews & Ratings

3.0
2 reviews
Overall 60%
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Support Threads Overview

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Total Threads
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

2 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

  1. WZ Followed Posts – Display what visitors are reading [where-did-they-go-from-here] < 3.1.1

    CVE-2025-4171 · Fixed in v3.1.1

  2. WZ Followed Posts – Display what visitors are reading [where-did-they-go-from-here] < 2.1.0

    CVE-2023-33999 · Fixed in v2.1.0

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin was for WordPress site owners who wanted to show visitors related pages they'd clicked through from a post, similar to Amazon's product recommendations. It solves the problem of visitor retention by displaying previously followed posts automatically, via shortcode, or via a widget, though it is now retired with no further updates or support.

  • Automatic display after content
  • Block editor support
  • Shortcode [wfp] support
  • Multi-widget support
  • Manual install functions
  • Exclude posts and categories
  • Supports all post types
  • Thumbnail support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WZ Followed Posts – Display what visitors are reading

Check out the settings page for a wide array of settings that let you customise the plugin output. You can also style the followed posts list using CSS. The following are the main classes that can be styled:
You can add the CSS code in the Custom Styles section of the plugin settings page or in your theme's style.css file. To find out the detailed list of available styles, check out the HTML output of the generated code. Shortcode Use [wfp] to display the followed posts. This was changed in v3.1.0 from [wherego]. Read more in this knowledge base article. Function the_wfp() Use <?php if ( function_exists( 'the_wfp' ) ) { the_wfp(); } ?> to display the followed posts. You can also use this function to display posts on any type of page generated by WordPress including homepage and archive pages.
Go to Tools > Followed Posts Tools and use the Export tracking data box. The CSV contains one row for every source post and followed post pair, which is the complete data set. It opens in any spreadsheet. Once you have your export, the Danger zone on the same page will delete the tracking data, or delete every trace of the plugin and deactivate it.
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

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