linkpublishers

The Link Publishers plugin allows the Link Publishers team to publish articles directly to your WordPress site as an Author. When an article is published, the site administrator will receive an email notification about the new article.
The plugin also includes Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for enhanced security.
This plugin communicates with the <a href="https://dashboard.linkpublishers.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers API</a> to authenticate users and notify admins about new articles.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin communicates with external servers.
<ul>
<li>The plugin connects to the following domain: <code>https://dashboard.linkpublishers.com</code> to update the status of the WordPress site with the Link Publishers dashboard.</li>
</ul>
No personal or sensitive user information is transmitted, only necessary status updates for functionality.
<h3>Third-Party Service</h3>
This plugin integrates with the Link Publishers API to handle user authentication and article notifications.
<ul>
<li>Service URL: <a href="https://dashboard.linkpublishers.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers API</a></li>
<li>Terms of Use: <a href="https://linkpublishers.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers Terms of Use</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://linkpublishers.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

Link Publishers

Link Publishers allows the Link Publishers team to publish articles as an Author, and notifies the site admin whenever a new article is published.

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Does your website utilize categories and tags? Does it use custom taxonomies? If so, this plugin will find similar content 
based on all your taxonomies. There are two ways to show related posts within your page.
<ul>
<li>The first way to show related content on your post is to use the widget provided. This only works when is_single() is true</li>
<li>The second way to show similar content on your site is to use the pk_related_return($post->ID); function which can be 
called programmatically anywhere you wish!</li>
</ul>
The Widget included with this plugin gives you the option to limit the amount of posts; it allows you to determine which 
fields to show: Featured Image, Author, Date, and Excerpt (Title is required); it allows you to determine which 
variant of the featured image to show: thumbnail, medium, large, or full. As of version 2.0, you can now decide whether the 
‘similar posts’ sorting prefers posts that are newer or posts that were created closer to the date of the post you’re 
viewing.
If you find the Widget doesn’t meet your needs or is too limiting, you can call the functionality programmatically using 
this function:
<pre><code>pk_related_return($post->ID, $args);
</code></pre>
Where $post->ID is the ID of the post for which you are wanting to show related articles.
The $args parameter is an array with the following values available to you (more coming soon):
<ul>
<li>posts_per_page (int defaults to 5)</li>
<li>thumbnail_size (string consisting of one of these values: “thumbnail”, “medium”, “large”, “full”. Defaults to thumbnail).</li>
<li>sort_prefer (string consisting of one of these values: “newest”, “closest”. Defaults to newest).</li>
</ul>
An example might be:
<pre><code><?php
$args = array (
 'posts_per_page' => 6,
 'thumbnail_size' => 'medium',
 'sort_prefer' => 'closest'
);
</code></pre>
The return value of pk_related_return is an array of objects that includes most of the fields within WordPress’s posts 
table plus permalink and featured image.
Future Additions:
Allow the user to specify only certain content types (posts, pages, custom) in a request. This would allow you to specify 
only products get returned, or only blog posts. This would only be an issue if content types share taxonomies.

Link Publishers vs Similar Posts Ontology