faestwistandtango · Member · Nov 13, 2013 at 8:06 pm
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I noticed that at the end of each post, WP has incorporated “Related” feature. I love it! I use to add ‘Thumbnails’ myself (extra work) to include ‘You may also like’ feature.
My questions:
1) Why is it that some ‘Themes’ have photos next to the ‘Related’ such as The Yoko Theme, Theme Manifest, The Forever Theme. I have The Imbalance 2 Theme… would mine have those little photos next to the ‘Related’ someday, or is it something that I have to do for the photos to appear?
2) Does WP randomly pick the three ‘Related’ in the bottom of each post, or do I have a way to chose?

Appreciate your response! :D Fae.

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timethief · Member · Nov 13, 2013 at 8:09 pm
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Yes this feature is new. Read this http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/related/

We will use the featured image as the thumbnail if it exists otherwise we will fallback to the first image in the post body.

If there is an image from a 3rd party in your post as long as it’s publicly accessible we will use the WordPress.com servers to pull the image in, scale it to the appropriate size, then serve it as the post thumbnail.
Unfortunately there’s no way to adjust thumbnail sizes at the moment, we’ll look into supporting custom sizes in the future.

Relatedness of the post currently takes into account the post title, content, tags and categories. We are constantly tweaking our algorithms and hope to improve on the quality of the results as time passes.
faestwistandtango · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 12:03 am
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Thank you Timethief! Hugs!
timethief · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 12:13 am
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I’ll take those {HUGS}. Happy blogging. :)
faestwistandtango · Member · Dec 12, 2013 at 5:53 pm
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Hellow again TimeThief,
I switched to a new theme and my “Category” at the bottom section of my theme does not work. Please help me. :)

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