3 Q's (Better relations, sidebar, show relations)

  • We’re extremely intrigued by your plugin Related Posts and think it may be a fit for our site (a movie review site).

    However, there are a few questions that have come up in our initial testing of it:

    First, the relationships between the posts hasn’t been optimal so far for us. For example, we just posted a new review of the film “The Danish Girl”. It stars Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and was directed by Tom Hooper. All of those names appear in other post content on our site. We also tested by adding those three names to tags of their films. Both before and after the tags, the related posts stayed the same and the relationship was entirely known. The only exception was “The Man from UNCLE” which also starred Alicia Vikander.

    The film Secret in Their Eyes just came out as well and your tool didn’t find the relationship to our review of the original, “The Secret in Their Eyes”.

    So question 1: Is there a way to increase these relationships?

    Question 2: Is there a way to easily display these vertically in a sidebar widget? Our reviews have a lot of available sidebar space where these would be easily seen.

    Question 3: It would be extremely optimal to be able to show the relationship. For example, people reading the review of The Danish Girl are very likely interested in Eddie Redmayne so showing Related Posts and stating “Related to Eddie Redmayne” above them would be extremely effective. Would there be a way to achieve that?

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  • Hey Agrajag27,

    thanks for reaching out and sorry for the late reply.

    1. Our aggregator works more or less in the following order: title + we add tags & categories that we’ve detected on your blog and content. More content (and similar) there is, the better the relevancy.
    For example, I tested with making one post named “The Secret in Their Eyes” (original) and one “The Secret in Their Eyes” (remake) and the third “Nothing” and added tags: Eyes, Secret and also writing similar content to the “The Secret in Their Eyes” (remake). When on post “Nothing”, both other post were shown as related.

    2. this depends on the WP theme you are using but usually you can achieve this by going to “Appearance”-> “Widgets” and drag an drop “Related Posts” to the right/left widget/sidebar

    3. sorry, currently we are not offering this option

    If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to ask.

    Take care and enjoy your New Years,
    Petra

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