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Cross-Promotion Content Recommendations by Engageya

Engageya’s cross promotion content recommendations plugin is the best way to expose your blog posts to new, related and highly engaged audience – for free!

Active installs20+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d200▲ +17% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.2/59 reviews
Health score33/100At risk
All-time downloads17.7KSince Oct 2012
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 2.6.0PHP any
Downloads · 7d33▼ -54.2% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (20+ active installs)
  • No update in 12 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 3.9 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

91928Jul 16Aug 29Oct 13
Yesterday7
Daily average (1y)5
Peak day38Aug 31, 2026
Last 12 months1.7K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Cross-Promotion Content Rec… stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
content >100 10,000 Best content plugins →
links >100 10,000 Best links plugins →
recommendations >100 2,100 Best recommendations plugins →
related links >100 4,985 Best related links plugins →
traffic >100 3,916 Best traffic plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 2.3100.0%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 from 9 reviews

  • 5★77.8%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★11.1%
  • 1★11.1%

About Cross-Promotion Content Recommendations…

From the official readme · v2.3.0

Description

Engageya’s cross promotion content recommendations plugin is the best way to expose your blog posts to new, related and highly engaged audience – for free!

Engageya’s WordPress related posts plugin displays related thumbnails or links at the foot of each post. The plugin recommends additional posts on your website as well as posts on other related websites in the network.
For outgoing users that click out of your blog through the plugin – you will receive new related traffic back into your posts.
By doing so, Engageya helps large and small bloggers and publishers drive a new stream of engaged readers into their websites through the highest click-through-rates plugins in the industry.

Your Benefits

  • Develop new audience – drive additional related traffic to your website, for free
  • Increase user retention and site pageviews – readers stay on your site for a longer period of time
  • Reduce bounce rate – offer your readers relevant new content from your blog or from the web
  • Expose your readers to other posts onsite that they might not have otherwise noticed
  • Add style & color to your website by using our customized related content design layouts

Plugin Features

  • Link between your related posts
  • Link your posts to other websites’ related posts
  • Customized plugin in various design layouts
  • Track and monitor your incoming and outgoing related traffic on http://www.engageya.com

Related Posts Layout Properties

Engageya’s plugin automatically inherits the style of your site.
Additionally, we offer rich display options to help you customize the best look & feel of your pages:

  • Thumbnails with titles
  • Various thumbnails sizes
  • Customize titles’ font color
  • Images shadow and/or hover effects
  • Static or slide-in plugins
  • LinkWithin or nRelate similar styles
  • Text only with no images

Check our screenshots to view all our display options, in this link:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cross-promotion-content-recommendations/screenshots/

How do we find the most targeted traffic?

Engageya’s technology consists of unique semantic analysis that intelligently classifies content pages in real time while using Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to find the best available matching content.
Engageya’s cutting-edge technology also performs profiling of the readers to display personalized recommendations based on user behavior analysis & collaborative filtering procedures – therefore, no two users will receive the exact content recommendations on the same page.

Languages

The plugin supports related posts in all languages.

Note that it takes the plugin between 2-4 hours until is fully learns your blog and finds the best images for each post.
Just settle back and relax… you will start enjoying related content recommendations as well as new qualified readers through cross-promotion in no time!

Installation

For the default layout installation:

  1. Download the plugin and save it on your computer.
  2. In your WordPress admin dashboard, go to “Upload New Plugin” page.
  3. Browse for the zip file from Step 1, and click on “Install Now”.
  4. Wait for the installation to complete, and activate the plugin.
  5. Allow our plugin 2-4 hours to semantically analyze your website and show related posts and content at the bottom of your posts.

For advanced layout settings and in/out coming traffic tracking and reports of your site, head to Engageya:
http://www.engageya.com/widgets/new/

Note that it takes the plugin between 2-4 hours until is fully learns your blog and finds the best images for each post.
Just settle back and relax… you will start enjoying related content recommendations as well as new qualified readers through cross-promotion in no time!

Changelog

2.3.0

Added layouts selection

2.2.4

Support https websites

2.2.3

Fix multiple plugin show on excerpt

2.2.2

Performance optimizations for the plugin load time
Display plugin also on excerpt

2.1.1

Display credits reports for logged-in users
Smarter connection between your Engageya admin with Engageya’s website – for plugin customization & performance reports
Improved performance for plugin load time
Insert additional images into recommendations frame, if there’s enough space for more

2.0.5

Backwards compatiblity WordPress-Engageya connection bug fix

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Engageya's plugin displays related links to other posts on your site, as well as posts on other sites in our network. For outgoing users that click out of your blog through the plugin - you will receive new related traffic back into your posts.
Engageya offers a variety of layout options, such as:
Engageya's plugin displays related links to other posts on your site, as well as posts on…
Thumbnail and text layouts in various thumbnail sizes
Thumbnail and text layouts in various thumbnail sizes
Text only slide-in layouts
Text only slide-in layouts
Titles only slide-in layouts
Titles only slide-in layouts
Large thumbnail slide-in layouts
Large thumbnail slide-in layouts
Background large thumbnail with text slide-in layouts
Background large thumbnail with text slide-in layouts
Text with bullets layouts
Text with bullets layouts
Traffic exchange schema of engageya's traffic crediting mechanism
Traffic exchange schema of engageya's traffic crediting mechanism

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FAQ

Cross-Promotion Content Recommendat…: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 14, 2026

Is Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… free?

Yes. Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… safe to use in 2026?

Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Cross-Promotion Content Recomme…?

Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… is active on 20+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 17,724 times since it launched in October 2012. It was downloaded 200 times in the last 30 days.

Does Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… work with WordPress 7.1?

Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… is officially tested up to WordPress 3.9.40, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… last updated?

The latest version, 2.3.0, was released on July 14, 2014 (12 years ago).

Who makes Cross-Promotion Content Recomme…?

Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… is developed and maintained by Engageya.com.

What are the best alternatives to Cross-Promotion Content Recomme…?

The most popular alternatives to Cross-Promotion Content Recomme… are One Click Demo Import (1M+ installs), Advanced Excerpt (80K+ installs) and Rara One Click Demo Import (20K+ installs).

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