Repeating posts when plugin used twice on a page

  • Resolved luc3283

    (@john5171)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    I use the plugin at the sidebar and at the bottom of the page.

    I cleared the cache and now the related posts showing are the exact same ones at the sidebar as they are at the bottom.

    Is there a way to fix this? other than using the “randomize” option?

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    You can also use the offset function for the widget to potentially display the next set of related posts so these will show different set

    Thread Starter luc3283

    (@john5171)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Great! this worked.

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    🙂

    Will mark this as resolved.

    Thread Starter luc3283

    (@john5171)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Another related problem, why isn’t the ‘Height of the thumbnail:” doesn’t apply to the sidebar thumbnails, only the ones at the bottom.

    More to that – the sidebar thumbnails are sized at the set maximum height, but are stretched to fill the width, so they are out of focus and pixelated…

    Example of a sidebar thumbnail image sizing: 123px × 150px (scaled to 200px × 244px)

    So as you can see, the size is set to 150px since I set it like that for the bottom images, but at the sidebar, they extend to fill the width… so it turns out to be pixelated and out of focus.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by luc3283.
    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    The issue is the clash of the different sizes. I’m not sure there is an easy way to do this. One option is to manually add the image size to create images of the sidebar size.

    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_image_size/

    Thread Starter luc3283

    (@john5171)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Maybe you can apply the “Height of the thumbnail:” to the sidebar images as well?

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    I will need to explore how I can do that. I do have a few thoughts, but it is likely going to add a new size to be generated based on the widget selected automatically.

    You would need some thumbnail resizing plugin like OTF Regenerate Thumbnails for the older thumbs

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