[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Templates’ incompability with php function calls provided

I spoke to @yarpp on Twitter and I was told to explain my problem further, so here I go.

I had edited a template provided with the plugin back in May to provide a YouTube-like display of related posts, as they all contain video players with videos and I came up with this. This included Woo themes’ custom function for displaying thumbnails and the call to display number of views, from Lester Chan’s WP Post-Views plugin.

<?php /*
Example template
Author: mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
*/
?>
<?php if ($related_query->have_posts()):?>
<ol>
	<?php while ($related_query->have_posts()) : $related_query->the_post(); ?>
	<li>
	<?php woo_get_image('image','64','64'); ?>
	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<small><?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?></small></li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
</ol>
<?php else: ?>
<p>No related posts.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

This worked well until the YARPP update yesterday. The related posts are still displayed, but it seems to be ignoring the calls for these two functions. I was wondering how to solve this as I literally did not touch anything.

Thanks in advance!

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