Show DIFFERENT related posts on every post but from same category

First of all….PHENOMENAL Plugin. Thank you so much for this! I was able to customize this really nicely and I am just left with one problem. If this can be solved I will be extremly grateful!

Now, here’s the problem. I do know that I can use “rand” to randomize the related posts. This works as expected. Now, as far as SEO goes, though, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to use randomized because every time a user will access this page, the related posts will be different. So I guess these links are not “stable” then ant can’t be indexed properly by the search engines because they change all the time.

My problem is now that when I DONT use random, on every post in the same category, I get the same 10 Related Posts shown. But what I would like to display is DIFFERENT related posts from the same category for every post in the same category. So it should be like “rand” but these related posts should always stay the same and not change after every refresh. Hope you know what I mean.

I know that this can be done MANUALLY by setting the post IDs for literally every post where the shortcode appears. But this is obviously extremely time-consuming if you have thousands of posts. So I wonder…is there any way to do this automatically…so something like “rand” but related posts that don’t change after every refresh.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,

Marcel

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