Is there any way to add “related posts” thumbnails/links into the sidebar? I saw the recent posts shortcode, but I don’t want recent posts as my site’s homepage will already be displaying the latest/recent posts.

I want to manually select which posts and thumbnails are displayed in the sidebar widget – I don’t want WP (or X) to choose the posts based on tags or categories – I want to add them myself.

I’m using the Ethos child theme.

Thanks for your time.

You could need to use a plugin as like any of the following: http://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/

Have a nice day, Cheers!

Thanks for writing in!

You can have a look at YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin)

YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Thanks.

if( !empty( $tag ) ) {
if ($tag == ‘related’){
$args[‘tag’] = strip_tags(get_the_tag_list( ”, ‘, ‘, ” ));
the_tags( ”, ‘, ‘, ” );
} else {
$args[‘tag’] = $tag;
}
}