chadrew

I see Kraken has an API, it would be sweet if someone made a WP plugin for it, too.

An easy way would be adding <!--more--> in your posts after a few paragraphs, this way only the part before <!--more--> will be displayed on the home page.

Alternatively, you can achieve the same results by editing the index.php of your theme, but that requires some WP knowledge (replacing the_content with the_excerpt and things like that).

Regarding showing older posts at the top, once again you could edit the index.php in your theme and add <?php query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=date&order=ASC'); ?> right before the line which has have_posts().

'public' => true
'exclude_from_search' => true

This way custom posts should be accessible, but won’t be included in search.

“Search” refers to WordPress internal search only. If you want to hide a specific post type from search engines (e.g. Google), you have to add a condition to your header.php, like this:

<?php if ( get_post_type() == 'custompost' ) { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
<?php } ?>

I hope I understand your question correctly because in the first post you ask how to make pages inaccessible but visible in search, and in the last post it’s the other way round 🙂

@bvanleeuwen you can check “Display using a custom template file” in the widget options, and select the custom template you want to use.

@ottens this is more of a PHP quesiton than WordPress. But basically you can add something like $counter, make it zero, and increase it by one for every post. Something like this I guess:

if ( have_posts() ) {
	$counter=0;
	echo '<ul>';
	while ( have_posts() ) {
		the_post();
		if ($counter==0) { ?>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'toolbox' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php
		if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
		the_post_thumbnail('medium');
		} } ?></a><li>
		<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'toolbox' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
		<div class="entry-meta"><?php toolbox_posted_on(); ?></div>
		</li></a>
		<?php $counter++; ?>

I’m sure mitcho will answer this soon, but for now have you guys tried 3.4.1b5? It fixed many issues for me.

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/yet-another-related-posts-plugin.3.4.1b5.zip

Yes to both. But regarding the second issue, it might not be important or related to 3.4. I’ve noticed before that YARPP doesn’t pick posts very well when I only use tags for “Relatedness” and the post has few (or especially only one) tag.

Regarding relatedness issues: I was only using tags, and now I switched to using only custom taxonomies for “relatedness”. The weird thing I noticed is that if I set it to “Require at least one (taxonomy) in common”, it still shows posts which do not have the said taxonomy. In fact, posts which do not have a common taxonomy actually have higher match score than posts which do. This might be related to the fact that the post only has one entry in the taxonomy, I’m not sure. (It doesn’t bother me too much due to the way I’m using this plugin, anyway).

Possible bug: for some reason, “Disallow by Tag” shows all tags, but “Disallow by (Taxonomy)” is empty.