jureham

The issue should be solved.
If it’s still broken please wait 15 minutes and clear the browser cache.

Thank you for the report.

Best, Jure

ps2. I pushed it to the dev channel if you want to try it out:

http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin.zip

Thanks, Jure

Hi,

sorry for the very late response. I somehow missed your question.

Our plugin should stabilized after some time. The initial fuzziness should go away after your reader will open most of the posts at least once. (A trade off between speed and accuracy)

The potential problem could be cause by our random post algorithm(which is used when no related posts could be found) that changes random seed every 5 minutes. You can find this code in recommendations.php line 302. If you don’t want random posts to change, replace this:
$seed = $t - $t % 300 + $post->ID << 4;
whith this:
$seed = $post->ID;

Best, Jure

Hi,

it’s relevance only. Tags are scored 10 points, categories 5 and tags that we generate from title and text are scored 2 points.

We’re always trying to improve the plugin so it would be very helpful if you’d give us a few examples where you think that recommendations could be better.

Thanks,
Jure

Hi,

in your case it’s probably matching the category or words in the title.
But even if it wouldn’t, it falls back to using random posts.

If you want to modify this behaviour check file wp_related_posts.php lines 87-89(wp_rp_fetch_related_posts_v2 is matching tags, categories, title and content and it behaves the way I described it in the previous post, wp_rp_fetch_related_posts is using only tags and wp_rp_fetch_random_posts returns random posts).

But you have to keep in mind that your changes will be overwritten on every plugin update.

Best, Jure

Hi,
wp_rp_should_exclude() is used for excluding categories.
To exclude custom post types you’ll have to modify line 51 in wp_related_posts.php and line 19 in recommendations.php.

We might add and option to exclude post types in the future version, but for now this is the only way.

Best, Jure

I really don’t know what is happening.
If you have access to the server(ftp or something similar) you can try deleting our plugin(wp-content/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin) manually and installing it again.

Best, Jure