If you want to boost Page Views, Read Time, and User Engagement on your news website, the Related Posts feature is extremely useful. With this feature, readers explore more articles on your portal — which leads to better traffic growth and improved retention.

In this guide, we will learn how to enable and customize the Related Posts feature in Vedanta Software’s NewsPortal CMS.

🔹 What is the Related Posts Feature?

When a user reads a news article, other relevant articles from the same topic, category, or tags are displayed inside the article content.

This encourages users to continue reading more content on your website.

👉 More clicks → More time spent → Better engagement!

🛠️ How to Enable Related Posts Feature? (Step-by-Step Guide)

Follow these steps inside your NewsPortal CMS:

🔸 Step 1: Go to Settings

Navigate to System → Settings

Select News Portal Settings → Related Posts

🔸 Step 2: Enable the Feature

✔ Check the Enable box

🔸 Step 3: Include Posts From

You will see two options:

1️⃣ Date – show posts after a specific date

2️⃣ Days – show recent posts from past X days

For demonstration, we selected Date and chose 2nd January 2017.

🔸 Step 4: Display Count Options

Count → Number of related posts to show

👉 We selected 3

After Paragraph Count → Display after how many paragraphs

👉 We selected 2

🔸 Step 5: Set Label Text

Default label → Read More

We renamed it to Related Posts for clearer intent.

🔸 Optional: Enable Thumbnails

If you turn this ON, article thumbnail images will also display.

This makes the design more appealing and clickable.

🔸 Step 6: Matching Condition

Choose how posts should be matched:

Category
Tag

✔ You can enable both for best relevance.

👀 Preview Output

After saving settings:

✔ Related Posts appear after 2 paragraphs

✔ Thumbnails appear (if enabled)

✔ Articles shown are based on category/tag match

A better browsing experience for every reader!

🎯 Benefits of Related Posts Feature

• Increases Page Views: More articles clicked
• Higher Read Time: Better retention & engagement
• Boosts Traffic: Helps overall website growth
• Better Content Discovery: Improved user experience

📌 Final Thoughts

By enabling Related Posts in your NewsPortal CMS, you can significantly increase user engagement and keep readers active on your website for longer.

A simple setting…

A powerful impact! 🚀

If you found this helpful, share it with your team and keep exploring more smart features of Vedanta Software NewsPortal CMS.