At the bottom of a published recipe, readers are offered other recipes under a heading like More in Weeknight dinners. Each of those blocks comes from one of the recipe’s tags, and you choose which tags get one.
The first few are set up for you
The first 3 tags you add to a recipe automatically get a related block. For most recipes that is the whole story: add tags, and related recipes appear.
Managing them in the editor
On a wide screen, the Related content column beside the recipe shows what each block will hold. In it you can:
- Add a block with + Show another tag. It uses the next tag on the recipe that does not have a block yet; if every tag already has one, it opens the tag window so you can add another tag.
- Change which tag a block uses from the dropdown beside Recipes tagged. Two blocks cannot use the same tag.
- Reorder blocks with ↑ and ↓. They appear on the published recipe in this order.
- Remove a block with ✕. The tag stays on the recipe — it just stops offering related recipes.
If you are using Split view, this column is replaced by the live preview. Switch to Full view to get it back.
What readers actually see
- Only published recipes appear. Drafts are never shown to readers.
- Up to 6 recipes per block.
- The recipe being read is never listed in its own related recipes.
- A block with no other published recipes in it does not appear at all, so a tag you have only used once shows nothing yet.
That last point is the usual explanation for “my related recipes are missing”: the tag needs another published recipe on it.
Why bother
Related recipes are how a reader who came for one dinner ends up cooking three. They are also ordinary internal links, which is the part search engines care about.