Display thumbnail, title, and excerpt?

Hi tactics

At this momemt you can only show one or the other. You can use a workaround by adding the excerpt to the post title with this filter:
https://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/filters/#related_posts_by_taxonomy_caption

[edit] This works with the current version of the plugin 2.0.1

Try it with this in your (child) theme’s functions.php

add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy_caption', 'rpbt_add_excerpt_to_caption', 10, 2 );

function rpbt_add_excerpt_to_caption( $caption, $_post ) {
	global $post;
	$post = $_post;

	// the title
	$caption = '<h3>' . $caption . '</h3>';

	// the excerpt
	setup_postdata( $_post );
	$caption .= apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() );

	// reset global $post object
	wp_reset_postdata();

	return $caption;
}

btw:
consider creating a child theme instead of editing your theme directly – if you upgrade the theme all your modifications will be lost. Or create a plugin with the code above.

I ended up just doing the child theme and adding the thumbnail to the excerpt template in that. Works fine. Thanks!

Great solution!

I didn’t even think of that.

Here’s a write-up how you could do it with templates
https://keesiemeijer.wordpress.com/related-posts-by-taxonomy/templates/#create-format