{"id":2162,"date":"2014-04-10T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2023-12-30T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T19:37:48","slug":"related-posts-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/related-posts-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Related Posts Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using the<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin\/\"> Related Posts<\/a> plugin by Sovrn Zemanta. At some time, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.forums.wordpress.com\/topic\/removing-zemanta-integration\/\">WordPress deprecated this<\/a> and one of the webservice providers &#8220;Zemanta&#8221; withdrew\/failed or something &#8230; this led me to consider how to replace it as I very much like the feature, although given the low readership, I wonder how many others than me find it so.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to lose the current list of &#8220;Related Posts&#8221;, I suppose I need to examine the database records of the current provider. It would seem that Automatic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.support.wordpress.com\/related-posts\/\">have provided equivalent functionality in Jetpack<\/a>, which I have not installed on this wiki; perhaps I should.<\/p>\n<p>While looking for a picture for this blog, I found this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190416144546\/https:\/\/www.wpkube.com\/7-best-related-posts-plugin-wordpress\/\">listing someone&#8217;s favourite 7 plugins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I transferred to Jetpack; it&#8217;s quite odd, I opened<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/problem-with-related-posts-feature\/\"> this thread at the support forum<\/a>, initially it didn&#8217;t work, and latterly the recommendation seem odd. I need it to select primarily on category because of the way I use categories. They are statements of editorial intent and usually unique. I would also like to hint about how old it should look back. I would also like to exclude certain articles, say those with a given tag, such as deprecated. I would like the display to be defined by lines\/rows and not by items.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/search\/related+posts#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=related%20posts&amp;gsc.sort=\">a bunch of alternates<\/a> to choose from, if I so wish.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will, what they offer is just odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using the Related Posts plugin by Sovrn Zemanta. At some time, WordPress deprecated this and one of the webservice providers &#8220;Zemanta&#8221; withdrew\/failed or something &#8230; this led me to consider how to replace it as I very much like the feature, although given the low readership, I wonder how many others than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,584],"tags":[224,54,1234,66,660,911,28],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-wordpress-technology","tag-configure","tag-howto","tag-jetpack","tag-plugin","tag-related-posts","tag-technology","tag-wordpress"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/plug-mikewinkler-unsplash-w1080.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}