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title: Change the Format of Related Posts
description: "The Related Posts feature in Taxonomies shows posts in a list format. You can modify the information shown for each post link. You can see the default format in the screenshot below: ![Related Posts example](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/related-posts-five.png) related posts five This format…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/format-related-posts/"
updated: "2026-10-12"
category: "PublishPress Taxonomies / Taxonomies: Related Posts"
---

# Change the Format of Related Posts

The Related Posts feature in Taxonomies shows posts in a list format. You can modify the information shown for each post link. You can see the default format in the screenshot below:

![Related Posts example](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/related-posts-five.png)
related posts five

This format is controlled by the "Term link format" setting in Taxonomies > Related Posts > Advanced:

![Term link format in TaxoPress](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/term-link-format-1024x308.png)
term link format

For example, you can change this display by adding "LINK" to the "Term link format, as in this screenshot below:

![Term link format change](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/term-link-format-changed-1024x302.png)
term link format changed

This next screenshot shows the result of those changes:

![Related Posts link change](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/related-posts-five-changed.png)
related posts five changed

Here is the code that Taxonomies provides by default:

```
<a href="%post_permalink%" title="%post_title% (%post_date%)">%post_title%</a>
```

Here are the items you can see inside that code:

- `%post_permalink%` The URL of the post
- `%post_title%` The title of the post
- `%post_date%`The date of the post (this shows inside a tooltip)

Here are other items you can choose to include:

- `%post_tagcount%` The number of tags used by both posts
- `%post_comment%` The number of comments on the post
- `%post_id%` The ID of the post
- `%post_relatedtags%` A list of tags used by both the current post and the related posts
- `%post_excerpt%` The post excerpt
- `%post_content%` The post content
- `%post_thumb_url%` The URL of the post's featured image.
- `%post_category%` The categories attached to the posts.
- `%post_relatedtags%` The tags attached to the posts.
- `%tag_description%` The description of the term