tosok

Hey Ajay, FWI, entering the name into the metabox does work. Thanks for that suggestion. That will be my go-to option if necessary. I’m really hoping that I can get the plugin to do this automatically so that I don’t have to manually enter anything.

So, setting the manual metabox method aside for the moment, I’ve been working with different settings and gotten pretty close to getting my desired results automatically.

As it stands now I can get the correct related podcast posts to display (same person/different episode). However, when there is someone that shares a first or last name, etc… those posts display as well. That’s what I’m trying to eliminate right now.

I’m using only the post title to select related posts. Here is how the post titles come in from the rss feed:
Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 1
Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 2
Chug Garreau (Lakota) Part 3

I’m trying to figure out how the plugin chooses what is related from the title. I’ve got “1” selected for number of common terms. The results displayed are using “Garreau”. Not sure why it wouldn’t use “Chug” since it is the first common word. Whatever the reason, this setting of “1” gets me closest to what I’m looking for.

I was thinking that using “2” for the common terms setting would narrow it down but the results were further off. It seems when “2” is used it picks up on “Part 1” and then I get more random results, all containing “Part 1”. Not sure why it wouldn’t use “Chug” and “Garreau” since they are the first common words in the title.

Is there a way to globally select only the first two or three words in the post title in order for the plugin to determine related posts?

Also, is there a way to globally exclude words when the plugin is looking at the title to find related posts? If so, I would use it to exclude “Part 1”, etc.

I can email a pdf of the settings I’m using if that would be helpful.

Thanks so much much for your help.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by tosok.

Wondering if you had any more thoughts on this? A bit more info… Using a plugin, WordPress imports podcast episodes as posts from the podcast rss feed. The posts consists entirely of content that is imported from that feed. The feed is populated with info from mysql db.

I hope we can get this working. I really like how your plugin displays related posts. Thanks for your help.

If I understand your question, just through the title. Each episode comes into WP via rss which is generated by a php script. When the episode is imported into WP the name of the person is part of the title of the post. Categories are used only to designate that it is a podcast from radio program.

Thanks!

Hi Chandni. I figured it out. The problem was on my end. Your plugin works as it should. Was able to import a separate csv file and it properly added the new content to the existing content. Great plugin! I apologize for the confusion.

Hi Chandni-

No new pins were created. It doesn’t seem like the import happened. I emailed you with the test csv file that I was trying to import. If you didn’t receive it let me know and we’ll try something different.

Thanks so much!

Hi Chandni.

Thanks for your work on this. Unfortunately, I am not having success at importing a csv file. I downloaded the template and added latitude, longitude, marker title, and marker content information in rows 2 and 3. I did not change the column names that are in the template. I saved the file and then chose the import pins csv option, uploaded the csv file, selected it, but it did not import anything.

Any ideas? I can send you the csv file if you wish.

Also, I noticed that in the “Enter Map Pin” setting that when I am typing in any of the dialog boxes like Marker Content… if I stop typing for more than 2 seconds the box outline turns from blue to grey and I can no longer type in the box until I select the box with the mouse again and click. I’m a slow typer so that gets frustrating to have to keep selecting the dialogue box with the mouse to continue typing. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks for your help.

Great. Thanks for doing this. Looking forward to incorporating your plugin on our site.

Hi Chandi-

Just checking to see if you have been able to successfully add this feature yet.

Thanks.
Kent

Yes, that did it. Thanks so much.

That sounds great. Please let me know when it’s done and I’ll give it a try.

Thank you!

Thanks Chandi-

I’m sure I will be able to rename fields to match or adapt to whatever you develop. Thank you for your interest in this. Do have an idea of how long it will take to develop?

Have a great day!
Kent

Hi Chandi- Thanks for getting back to me.

I would like to place pins on a single post if possible. I produce a radio program that airs in 400+ communities in US and Canada. If I needed to do a map/post for US and a separate one for Canada, that might work. It would be easier for me to put the information in a CSV file and import than it would to manually go through the process of entering each individual station/community.
The fields I would be importing would include:
latitude
longitude
City, State/Province
station call letters
radio frequency
air day
air time
web url

I would be willing to skype if that was helpful to you.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by tosok.

Do you have an idea when you might implement this? If it’s in the near future I would feel more confident in incorporating your plugin into our site.

I have no idea how much work that would be for you, so I understand if it’s not something you can do soon, but it would be helpful to know if you can.

Thanks.

Hey there-

Wondering if there is any more word on this? Sure hope you folks can make this work. That would be a great help.

Thanks!