Exploring WordPress plugins
Thanks to this blog entry: My Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins, by John Chow, I am just exploring the Wordpress Related Entries plugin for Wordpress.
If you’re reading this entry on its own page (as opposed to on the main page), it should give you a list of related posts below the entry.
So far, I like what it’s doing. I haven’t explored enough yet to know what it bases its “related” decision on (other than the fact that it needs a full-text index). There’s a lot of comments on Mr.Wasabi’s page and I’m a bit confused whether it honors Technorati tags, for example.
On thing I discovered about the installation: Whatever I did, the related_posts() call kept ignoring the parameters I passed it and simply dumped the titles of the related entries in a single row. No matter which parameters I gave. In the end I just edited the related_posts PHP script itself and plopped the values right into the script. That appears to work.
Edit: Ironically, the plugin shows no related posts for this post. It seems to work OK for the other entries, though.
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November 4th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Hi Daniel,
I actually came to this post while hunting for some Django info (shame your post got ripped off on that other site) but currently I’m running Wordpress too. I found another great ‘related entries’ plugin called ‘Similar Posts‘ — I’ve found it to be very good, and it is actually built on the Related Posts plugin but extends the algorithms used to find matching posts. It might be worth checking out — I’m running it at the moment and am very happy with it