Filtering vs. Exclude Categories

  • B & L Marketing

    (@unifiedac)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    I like the idea of being able to exclude categories from the related post list. However, by excluding categories any posts in those categories are automatically excluded. This is different than filtering. For example:

    Post 1
    Categories: Mammal, North America, large

    Post 2
    Categories: Fish, North America, large

    Post 3
    Categories: Mammal, South America, small

    Post 4
    Categories: Reptile, Africa, large

    Let’s say we’re viewing Post 1. I don’t want related posts to be based on location or size, only the type of animal (mammal, fish, reptile, etc.). With WP Thumbie, if I exclude all locations and sizes, both Post 2, 3 and 4 become unavailable as related posts because they belong to an excluded category. Ideally the plugin would filter the results and see only the remaining included categories (i.e., fish, mammal, reptile, etc.). I think this is the key to more high quality related results.

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-thumbie/

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