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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.

RobMarsh

The Post-Plugin Library does nothing by itself but must be installed to provide shared code for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/similar-posts/" rel="ugc">Similar Posts</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/" rel="ugc">Recent Posts</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-posts-plugin/" rel="ugc">Random Posts</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popular-posts-plugin/" rel="ugc">Popular Posts</a>, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-comments-plugin/" rel="ugc">Recent Comments</a> plugins.
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>2.6.2.1
<ul>
<li>support for recent comments to only show one comment per post</li>
<li>fix for donate link</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.6.2.0
<ul>
<li>new {imagealt} output tag — rather like {imagesrc}</li>
<li>{excerpt} can now trim to whole sentences</li>
<li>content filter can now take parameter string</li>
<li>widget can now take parameter string</li>
<li>output can be appended to posts & feeds</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.6.1.0
<ul>
<li>the current post can be marked manually</li>
<li>widgets now honour the option to show no output if list is empty</li>
<li>{commenterlink} now respects the appropriate filter</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.6.0.0
<ul>
<li>version bump to indicate compatibility with WP 2.6</li>
<li>fix to really include attachments</li>
<li>new parameter for {imagesrc} to append a suffix to the image name, e.g. to get the thumbnail for attachments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.11
<ul>
<li>new option to include attachments</li>
<li>{php} tag now accepts nested tags</li>
<li>new output tag {authorurl} — permalink to archive of author’s posts</li>
<li>fix for numeric locale issue in Similar Posts</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.10
<ul>
<li>new option to select algorithm for term extraction in Similar Posts</li>
<li>new manual links option in Similar Posts</li>
<li>fix for faulty non-English tag indexing in Similar Posts</li>
<li>fix for page selection in old versions of WP</li>
<li>made omit current post try harder to find current post ID</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.9
<ul>
<li>new option to order Recent Posts by date of last edit rather than date of creation</li>
<li>new option to match the current post’s author</li>
<li>extended options for snippet and excerpt output tags</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.7
<ul>
<li>new option to show by status, i.e., published/private/draft/future</li>
<li>{categorynames} and {categorylinks} apply ‘single_cat_name’ filter</li>
<li>fixes bug in WP pre-2.2 causing installation code to fail</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.6
<ul>
<li>bug fix for new option for Recent Comments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.5
<ul>
<li>new option for Recent Comments: just_current_post</li>
<li>{snippet} and {commentsnippet} now handle ‘…’</li>
<li>{commentexcerpt} now same parameters as (excerpt}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.4
<ul>
<li>{commentpopupurl} targets the correct comment </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.3
<ul>
<li>bug fix for showing pages when not selected</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.2
<ul>
<li>{image} tag has even more options</li>
<li>new {commentpopupurl} tag</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0.1
<ul>
<li>made compatible with WP MU</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5.0
<ul>
<li>{image} has new post, link, and default parameters</li>
<li>new {imagesrc} tag</li>
<li>fix to empty category bug</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b28
<ul>
<li>more work on {image} scaling</li>
<li>improvements to Similar Posts matching</li>
<li>experiment with Chinese/Korean/Japanese matching</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b27
<ul>
<li>made {image} scaling more robust</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b26
<ul>
<li>reverted thumnail serving (speed)</li>
<li>fix current post after extra query</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b25
<ul>
<li>option to sort output, group templates</li>
<li>removed ‘trim_before’ option added more logical ‘divider’</li>
<li>{date:raw}, {commentdate:raw}, etc.</li>
<li>fix for {image} resizing when and not </li>
<li>{image} now serves real thumbnails</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b24
<ul>
<li>fix for recursive replacement by content filter</li>
<li>fix to {gravatar} to allow for ‘identicon’ etc.</li>
<li>fix to {commenter} to allow trimming</li>
<li>fix a warning in safe mode</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b23
<ul>
<li>new option to filter on custom fields</li>
<li>proper nesting of braces in {if} ; also allowed in condition</li>
<li>improved bug report feature</li>
<li>better way to omit user comments</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b22
<ul>
<li>show_pages option now possible to show only pages</li>
<li>update for {postviews}</li>
<li>fix {commenterlink} giving no output</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b21
<ul>
<li>fix bug in {snippet} stripping</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b20
<ul>
<li>fix default behaviour of {gravatar}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b18
<ul>
<li>new tag {if:condition:true:false}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b17
<ul>
<li>enhanced {php}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b16
<ul>
<li>fix submenus to work with Lighter Admin Drop Menu</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b15
<ul>
<li>fix bugs, add ‘included posts’ setting</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b14
<ul>
<li>enhanced bug reporter</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b13
<ul>
<li>added {gravatar}, extended {author}</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b11
<ul>
<li>fixed problem with bug reporter</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>2.5b9
<ul>
<li>clarifying installation instructions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

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