related posts in twenty thirteen
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Hi,
I have ticked the “Show thumbnails for related posts” box in “Reading Settings”. For some reason no thumbnails appear. Does anyone know how this function works in twenty thirteen?
Thank you!
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Howdy,
The new related posts feature and post thumbnails should both work properly in the Twenty Thirteen theme. There are however a few minimum requirements that we currently impose before showing related content.
First, there must be at least 10 published posts on a site before we show related content otherwise we will end up just cross linking every post with one another.
Second, there must be at least 500 bytes of content, which is about 100 english words, in a post before we try and find related content. We found that with very short posts we are not able to consistently find good quality content so we are just skipping them for now.
That said these limits are not written in stone, as we continue to improve on this feature we hope to relax them and make the results more relevant. I hope that answers some of the questions about why some sites or posts never show related content.
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I have over 900 posts. I insert the more tag into each post and I do not count the words to be sure there are 100 (why would I given that reblogs are not 100 words in length?) so that I cannot use this feature. Please confirm.
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Hi @timethief,
It appears that you are using the Expound theme which has related posts built in. If we were to enable this feature on the Expound theme the result would be two related posts sections per post. One from Expound and one from the new WordPress.com feature. (More info here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/removing-related-posts?replies=5#post-1517163)
We are currently working on updating Expound and a couple other themes so that the related content sections included within themes becomes powered by the new systems to deliver better results however even after that happens the settings talked about in the Related Posts feature release post will not appear as the method of display and formatting is left at the discretion of the theme itself.
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@hypertextranch
Thanks so much for the explanation. Just to be sure I understand this please accept my apology in advance for being dense.Are you saying to me that because Expound has a built in related post feature and enabling the new WordPress.com related posts feature would result in duplicating related posts that those of us who use Expound shall have no related posts at all?
Surely, that cannot be what you are saying.
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Or are you saying that the Expound theme will provide related posts automatically and there will be no setting here > Settings > Reading?
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Yeah I think we have our wires a bit crossed right now or something so please let me know where we are going astray.
I’m looking at one of your blogs specifically, http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/ which is using the Expound theme. Clicking on one of your posts, “Responsive Web Design: The Gold Standard” I see a “Related posts” section at the bottom of the page below the share and like buttons.
This “Related posts” section is output by the Expound theme itself. I believe currently it is simply looking up related content based on tags applied to each post. Soon we will make a change to the theme so that it will use the new WordPress.com related posts infrastructure to examine the contents of posts to make more relevant suggestions. But even when this happens Expound will not get the “Related Posts” styled output shown in today’s feature intro post because we respect the styles applied by the theme over the look and feel of the “global” WordPress.com “Related Post” plugin.
Also, this may be where we are getting our signals crossed, with either the WordPress.com Related Posts, or the Expound theme’s related posts nothing is shown on the home / post listing pages only when you click on a particular post and go all the way to the bottom does related content appear.
Does that make sense?
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Oh how embarrassing (red faced) :(
Yes, I see this now:
Related posts
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OMG! My images are goneI apologize for being dense.
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:)
No worries, one of our design goals with Related Posts was to actually make it as unobtrusive as possible so that people focus on the site owner’s content not the feature. After all in the end that’s what your readers are there to see.
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:) Thank you both :) I am only beginning and have two posts :) This must be the reason :)
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First of all, I don’t write in English very well, so I hope you can understand my question.
I have INove theme, and Related Post doesn’t work in it (I can see the option in Reading Settings). I saw that this theme (INove) is now retired, so I’ve used others (Oxygen, Skeptical, zBench…), but don’t work neither. I have more than 500 posts, and I always can see the option of Related Post in settings in all of themes.
Can you help me? I don’t know what the problem is. The blog is: http://dguinstation.wordpress.com/
Thank you and, again, sorry if there are any typo ;)
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Hi @pareidolico,
We are aware of a small number of sites which are unable to display related posts currently and are looking into the situation.
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Could you please let me know where I am going wrong as I can’t see the Related Posts feature on my blog: http://multilingualparenting.com/ ?
Thank you!
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Hi @ritarosenback,
You are using the Opti theme, which has a Related Posts section built into the theme. When a theme already has a Related Posts section, the WordPress.com Related Posts feature isn’t added on top of that. You can manage your theme’s Related Posts section under Appearance > Theme Options in your dashboard. Let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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