Related Posts Thumbnails

Plugin live example:

http://foreverculinary.com/2010/03/pechene-echpochmak/

Related posts thumbnails with titles under the post. Customized colors, thumbnail option with 150 x 150 pixels size, custom top text.

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I was planning to create something like this -but randomly. I think I will have a look at your plugin, the output is nice.

Hello!

I wanted to tell you, I love the plugin! It works wonderfully!

Just curious, I’m not a great coder by any means, so I thought I’d ask you instead of mucking it up. lol How would I go about changing it from pulling the default thumbnail to a post field?

Eg: I’ve got a custom field when I post that puts a thumbnail I link on top of each post. I’d like to pull that to show on each of my related posts, instead of the first thumbnail or the integrated post thumbnails.

Thanks so much!

Hi.
It would be nice to call the function only in certain categories, not to all posts.

Something like:

Is this possible?

DaxHorror, I glad you liked it. I’ll add custom field name option in next release.

WpUser, this feature will be added in next release. Thanks for the idea.

thanks for a great plugin, but i’m trying to get the images from previous post to be displayed. currently it’s just showing a gray box with the titles

Pedro, I can see that it shows gray images if post doesn’t have image – only video. This plugin can’t generate thumbnail for a video. You need to specify Post thumbnail for each of such posts. Right now you are calling thumbnails with 60×60 size. Are you using WordPress new specified post-thumbnail or changed your Media settings? If so, then you need to regenerate your thumbnails (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/).

Hi, Maria!

This is a terrific plugin, it’s just what I needed! Thank you for sharing it!

However, nearly all of the images in my posts are externally hosted, so most of my thumbnails are gray boxes. Short of editing each post and putting in WP-hosted images, is there another way to make images show up properly? will you be creating an updated version of this plugin that supports externally-hosted images?

Thanks!
Jenny

Hi Jenny, thanks for great feedback!
Currently there are no plans for this plugin to support external images. I am considering this in future for another plugin – http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/. However, the new version 1.1 of this plugin now supports post custom field as a thumbnails source. So as workaround, you can add new custom field for each post in which to specify external thumbnails URL. In plugin settings you may choose ‘Custom field’ as thumbnails source, set the name of this custom field and image sizes.

Thanks again, everyone at my site loves it! I look forward to the next release.

If I had checked before I posted. lol

Just upgraded and the new version is perfect! Easily one of my absolute favorite plugins, very, very nice!

DaxHorror, I’m glad you liked the new version!

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Hi, Maria! Thank you for your swift reply. I’ll try what you suggested. As it is, even with the gray boxes, my blog looks very professional now. I love that you made your plugin easy to use and customizable as to colors, font, etc. A friend says it’s now easier to navigate around my blog and explore the other content. Again, thanks for this fantastic tool. I look forward to upgrades and more of your other work. Best wishes always!

Hi Jenny, thanks again! It looks cool on your blog

Hi,

After I activated the plugin I received this error msg at the setting page.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home/public_html/example.com/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 227

Is there anything wrong?

Thanks.

Hi LWP, this warning will be removed in the next version, thanks for provided information. This may occur if your theme supports post-thumbnails but no post-thumbnails sizes were defined.

Great! Thank you.

Your plugin is fantastic.
Only a suggestion:
- Top text field is broken if I use (img) HTML tag. Could you allow more HTML tags in Top Text field inside admin panel?

Great work!

Danny, thanks for pointing to this. Some of html didn’t work. This will be fixed in new version.

Great work.
And very fast acceptance of suggestions!
You did best WordPress Related Post with thumbs.

Hello, very nice plugin and it works well.
I suggest the http://junkcoder.com/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild/ plugin for recreating the thumnails as alternative to the Regenate Thumbnails.
I wonder why there is no possibility to insert a function in the template rather than the automatic insert ?

HI and thank you for this great plugin.

Can you write the tags for insert related post in sidebar ?

Great Job!

Hi Li-An, thanks for suggestion and review of this plugin. I made insertion automatic because it is easier for less experienced users. I’ll add tags support in future releases.

Hi Mattew, I’ll add such thing in future versions. Thanks!

Hi,
It would be nice if you add the option:
Excerpt ON/OFF
to related posts.

Is there a shortcode to use to embed it anywhere in the blog??

Is it possible to specify explicitly one Category/tag ONLY to show from?

Thanks!

Hi Ahmed,
could you please explain what does mean the option Excerpt on/off?
Shortcode option will be added in future releases.
About categories – you can now select specific categories for this plugin in plugin settings.
I’ll consider tags specification in future releases.

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how to insert in php .?
with :
Disable this plugin work after post .

thanks

Risen, php tag will be added in plugin next version.

Hi Maria,
I meant by Excerpt:
The piece of text that follows the thumbnail (sample text)
usually you input it below your post like this one:
http://op111.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/p67-excerpt-box-wp27.png

usually if it is not inserted in a post the theme takes the first ~ 3 lines as excerpt.

you can get it like this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

Then it could appear or not.
So often as far as I have seen they add only 150 chars to similar “related posts” plugin

Best,
Ahmed

p.s
I couldn’t find a “subscribe to comments check box”… It’s difficult for me to follow the conversation here

Hey
First of all thanx for this great plugin!
I have two questions.

1) how come everytime i choose bewteen “thumbnail, medium and post-thumbnail” in the Post-thumbnails name: , it wont save my choice? I can only choose between custom sizes and 1 and 0. Not really sure what 1 and 0 mean.
Can i add custom size for that like 110×110? because my thumbnails are done automatically and they dont have custom fileds.

2) You wrote this ealier:

“You can set specific post-thumbnail size for related posts and specify it plugin settings. For example:

1
add_image_size( ‘related-post-thumbnails’, 100, 100, true ); // thumbnail 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels height, hard crop
”
Where exactly can i put this code and what is that made for. Im not sure i understand

Thank you very much

Hi Ahmed, so I guess you want to see excerpt under thumbnails. I’ll consider this setting for future releases. Thanks!

Hi Jnk, thanks for the feedback!

1) All thumbnail sizes you see in plugin settings are sizes that were specified in your theme settings. This is very cool WordPress 2.9 feature, that automatically creates thumbnails of specified sizes for all your images. Please read more information about this feature here:

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

2) According to information in the given link you can add the provided php code in your theme “functions.php” file right after the declaration:

add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

Once you added new thumbnails size option, you need to regenerate existing thumbnails. And I suggest to use this plugin for this purpose:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

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A great plugin keeps getting better! You’ve really done an amazing job with it.

I noticed in the newest version you’ve added excerpts (which is AWESOME), but they’re not showing up on my site. I’ve changed the settings from 0 to 100 and made the text-box size larger, but still nothing.

What would cause that?

Thanks again!!

Hi Shaldybina,

The plugin is working.
I have an issue and a query.

Issue:
—————————————–

But it’s pulling up only the default images,
( ../wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/img/default.png)
.
.
.
Instead of the post thumbnail.

I have many posts,
& it’s not possible to set up custom fields for each posts.

Kindly let me know what i need to do,
so that i get the wp default post thumbails in Related posts ?

Query:
—————————————–

My blog is hosted with Hostgator.
They do not support tim-thumb.

Many a times my blog was suspended for the reason:

“… … as it was causing a high load on the server, and due to the nature of the problem, I forced to take immediate action for the health of the server. causing an issue with our other customers on the same system. This appears to be a WordPress site, and we generally recommend installation WP-Super-Cache”.

I have already installed wp-super-cache.
Is this plugin going to cause High Load or queries ?

Thanks.

Thank you for the great plugin.

I wonder is that possible to turn off those inline CSS style, so that it’s flexible and much cleaner to style on an external CSS.

Thank you.

The 1.2 version is great ! Thanks you for the function. As DaxHorror said, I could not show the excerpt…
Do you plan to create an pot file for translation purpose ? http://www.code-styling.de/english/development/wordpress-plugin-codestyling-localization-en

Hi,

what’s the php tag for use in theme ?

DaxHorror, thanks! That is strange that excerpts are not shown. Plugin actually takes the Excerpt that was defined on post edit form. So if it’s empty it will return empty excerpts. I’ll check if there is a way to generate excerpt if no excerpt was specified directly for the post. I guess this is should be the issue.

Sorry, you are right. As I use advanced exerpt, I do not create excerpt. It must explain the lack of exerpt.

Hi Hemma, please check the following:

1) Thumbnails source is a Post Thumbnails.
2) Post-thumbnails name is ‘thumbnail’
3) If you changed settings in your Media you need to regenerate thumbnails (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/)

This plugin should not cause high loads and queries. On the post page to display related posts thumbnails this plugin makes 3 database queries. To minimize execution of this plugin you can do the following in plugin settings:

1) Set parameter “Show on single posts only”
2) “Relation based on” select “Categories” or “Tags” instead “Categories and Tags”
3) Decrease number of similar posts to display

Hi LWP, thanks for the feedback!
Right now it is not possible to turn off inline CSS.

Li-An, I’ll check this excerpt thing. I developed this plugin with support of translations and now it comes with Russian translation. Any translations are appreciated

Mario,
< ?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?>

Ooooh, okay, I didn’t understand. My apologies. I tried it out via the excerpt message in the edit screen, and it works perfectly. That’s great! If there is any way to automatically pull it from the post, that’d be wonderful, but I couldn’t and won’t complain at all!

Thanks, as always!

Hi!!

Thanks a lot for the update of the plugin
Best of luck!

Hi Mary,

1. Shortcode

[related-posts-thumbnails]

I am using this “List category posts” plugin. Through which you can define explicitly one/more categories with some related options, like Excerpt on/off, or just a listed items list. All the configurations are done through the short code. ex:
[catlist name=Category_name_here excerpt=yes numberposts=20]

So I was thinking about the posiblities of sth like:
[related-posts-thumbnails name=XXX excerpt=yes numberposts=xxx]

>> A next step would be showing them as bullets horizontally instead of vertically

2. Screenshots in WordPress
I have noticed you have images for the dashboard settings but not for the outcome. It shall make your plugin more popular if you add one photo of the plugin working…
with excerpt on/off

All the best!
Ahmed

Hello, I’ve made the french translation. Send me a mail so I can send you the files.
It seems that the plugin works with only one common tag. I would appreciate a more refine selection (the more tags in common by example) but I do not know how hard is it to code )

Sorry for this new comment – you can grab the french version here: http://www.li-an.fr/wpplugins/mes-traductions-de-plugins/

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Hi Ahmed, thanks for plugin improvement suggestions!

Hi Li-An,

thanks for French translation! I’ll add it in the next version.

This is the best plugin for NO thumbnail headaches!
But I’ve to admit it fails good relativity in my BLOG with has over 3K posts… Is there a way to call only last 6 months related posts?
If so, how can I do it?
Thanks

You’re welcome and it’s you to be thanked for your great work !

День добрый, Мари! испытывая ваш плугин в режиме, когда картинки задаются произвольным полем – столкнулся с тем, что ни картинки пиктограмм, ни картинки дефолтной пиктограммы не выводятся. Хотя физически поизвольное поле и картинка существуют, и сама тема берет пиктограммы поста из произвольного поля с названием Image
В чем может быть загвоздка?

Hi Rick, thanks for letting me know! I’ll investigate this problem under high amount of posts.

gerr Kulturtrigger, в следующей версии плагина (в ближайшие дни) будет режим разработчика и можно будет проанализировать эту проблему.

Admin check it working in atulo.net
It calls to late posts toooo OLD!
Once I can limit, at least last 6 months will help A LOT!

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Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homez.332/gaysurfe/www/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 24

Ay suggestion?

Hi Gay, what is PHP version on your server?

Server version: 5.0.90-log
MySQL client version: 5.0.51a

is that what you are asking?
otherwise where do i check?

Gay, this is MySQL. I have a suspicion that your PHP version lower than 5. Current version of plugin requires PHP 5.

I just checked, that WordPress requirements PHP 4.3 and higher. So I’ll make my plugin compatible with PHP 4 also in next release. Thanks for letting me know!

We can see “false === @fopen( $url, ‘r’ ) )” on the 595 line. When I changed ‘false’ into ‘true’ , thumbnail image was displayed. I don’t know the reason why this happens. If this is a burg, I hope that you will solve this problem in the next version.

Wow! This is the best related posts with thumbnails plugin I’ve come across (I’ve tried so many!). Thank you for sharing this!

I do have one question:
I’m using the WordPress Thesis theme and have unchecked the Page type option to “show on single posts only” so that related posts are displayed on the home page’s featured post. However, it is also showing up on “pages” (like my About page, which is a page, not a post). Is there a way for me to fix/adjust that?

Thanks again!

What is new in 1.2.1 version ? (french files updated for this version).

How do I check which PHP version I have?

You were right, i upgraded PHP version 4 to version 5 and it now works fine
Thanks a lot

Добрый день, Мари! Спасибо за Ваш отличный плагин. Я использую его на трех сайта и все отлично работало. Но сегодня что-то произошло. На одном из моих сайтов (de.news300.info) перестали показываться картинки. На других ( news300.info и ru.news300.info) все нормально Все сайты работают на одной теме и используют одинаковые плагины. Не могу понять что произошло. Заранее спасибо за совет и помощь.

Hi,
Great plugin. Thank you so much.

I have a problem with displaying all thumbnails for some reason. It seems as if its in the older posts the problem is. At first I thought it had something to do with the size of the photo, as I recently started to use larger images and there were no problems with recent posts (also if I change the image size in an old post that was not showing it will begin to show). However i noticed that lots of the old posts with the same image size as the ones not working had no problem showing in the related posts.

Do you have any idea what might be the problem?

All the best

Nadia

Li-An, please see the list of changes here http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/2010/06/related-posts-thumbnails-v1-2-1/

Gay, glad it worked. Anyways, I am going to add php 4 support. Thanks for information.

zenguy, I found that this whole condition depends on PHP configuration (allow_url_fopen parameter), so for some configurations it may always return false. I am going to remove this whole checking in the next version.

Can you send me e-mail when a possible lats 6 months of related posts comes to live?
Thanks

Cris, thanks! That’s right, I just checked, this is not working correctly. I’ll fix this in the next version. Thanks for letting me know!

Здравствуйте Ингвар! Спасибо за отзыв! Я недавно обнаружила зависимость плагина от одного конфигурационного параметра в php. В следующей версии я это пофикшу. Возможно его изменение на сервере послужило причиной поломки.

Hi Nadya, thank you!

I checked that old posts on your website use images, that are stored on WordPress.com and I can’t find thumbnail for them there. I would suggest to run this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/
It will generate thumbnails for your old posts on your server from external images.

Rick, ok I’ll notify you.

Hello,

I tried your plugin in french. Thank you very much. It’s great. However, i would have an idea. You can’t choose the articles that can/can’t appear. For instance, I would like to put thumbnails after events articles but I don’t them to apear as thumbnails because events are unesufull when they are finished.

For the moment it is possible to errase them, but it will errase thumbnails in this event cathegory too.

Hi Ofix, I see what you mean. I was thinking to separate categories as on display and participation. So probably this feature will be available in future releases. Thanks!

Nice

Thank you !!

is there any way to use it with P75 thumbnail ?

Hi mimo, I don’t know what is P75 thumbnail.

Hi,
I have a small problem with cropping images. The plugin itself is beautiful, but cropping…you can see it now e.g. here: http://www.financiein.sk/majova-inflacia-na-12-cista-inflacia-15/2010/06/18/ I use custom fields (i have a field “image” which is actually a thumb related to post). In settings I use 107×100 px. Its cropping OK, but from left upper corner, so some images look weird. It would be better to crop from center or to resize them a little bit. Can I do something with it?
And second thing: Id like to have excerpt in bold. Is this possible (where to change the code)? Thank you for your grat work…

Hey I got the “bold” issue, its font-weight: bold. OK, now, what can I do with the pictures? I even got the whole code, which is putting thumbs to posts. It is this code:

Can I get something like this to your plugin? Or there is a different way? Thanks a lot…

Hi Luke, my plugin does not resize and generate thumbnails, it just gets them as they are. I believe that creating thumbnails should be done via core WordPress functionality – Post Thumbnails, not via external plugins.

Anyway, after checking your website I found that your theme does images resizing and you can use its functionality with this plugin. So I guess that you can add the following code:

$url = 'http://www.financiein.sk/wp-content/themes/gothamnews/thumb.php?src=' . $url . '&h=' . $height . '&w=' . $width . '&zc=1&q=90';

on line 226 of current version of plugin to call required image size.

Please note, after plugin upgrade you need to make this alteration again, as this code is specific for your website.

Yeeeea it works great now! Thaaank you so much:-)

Luke, you are welcome!

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My theme does images resizing so please can you send me a code to resize thumbnail images as you did to mr Luke

Hi Mohamed, I can’t open your website. In the last version of this plugin I added the new parameter “Theme resize URL”, where you can specify URL to php script, that your theme uses to resize your images. You can find what this URL is from HTML source of images, used in your theme.

Thanks for such a great plugin – have tried a few ‘related posts’ plugins and this is by far the best!!!

However, i seem to have the same issues as Luke and Mohamed as my theme also resizes image. Tried to find URL from HTML source but not sure which URL to use or exactly where i should put the code!

Hi Fenella, I don’t see resizing script that your theme may be using. Are you using custom field option? Please turn on Developer mode in plugin settings, so I can see what’s happening in HTML source.

Hi Mary. I’ve turned on developer mode. I’m not using custom field but post thumbnail.

Hi Fenella, I can see now that you are using LinkWithin widget instead of this plugin. I am glad this worked for you!

Thank you very much for the plug-in! It’s perfect!

Great plugin, im using as related post thumbnails on http://www.wallpapersall.com in single post but can you please tell me how can I also display random thumbnails in sidebar?

Hi Shahzad, unfortunately, this plugin has no option to display random posts on main page in sidebar. You can just display related posts in sidebar on single post page only using plugin widget.

amazing plugin! thank you

Flora, thanks. Nice to see it customized so effective.

like the world says, the plugin is AMAZING.

i use it for the sidebar. can you tell me how to put the title to the right of image?

i found the related post shown the post that already open- i no need to open the post which i’ve already open. please let me know if you can fix this.

nice work

Dodi thanks! This plugin was designed to show related posts excluding the current one. I tried different settings and cache plugins and couldn’t reproduce this issue. I noticed on your website that plugin displays always exactly the same thumbnails everywhere like it is hardly cached. What cache plugin are you using? If you are using WP_Super_Cache make sure it is the latest version.

There is no straight way to put text on the right in current version of plugin. As a workaround I can suggest you to put the following in your theme CSS stylesheet:

.widget_relatedpoststhumbnailswidget a div {
position: relative;
}
.widget_relatedpoststhumbnailswidget a div div+div {
float: left;
width: 100px;
position: absolute;
left: 165px;
top: 0px;
}

And you can set “Text block height” parameter to 10 in plugin settings.
I didn’t test it though in other browsers, but it worked in Firefox.

Hi: Really luv this plugin. Since I installed it about a month ago (and have since upgraded to your most current version, I have noticed that thumbnails are not displaying for my newer posts since installing. Every post has an image and thumbnails are generated for them. Also, since upgrading, the Top Text is not displaying.

-Thanks

Hi Cris, I’ve sent you email.

Hi, i have the same proble of Cris, the top text, exemple “related post” dont show.

Can you help me?

thanks for all.

Hi lino, to allow more customizable output starting from version 1.2.4 top text is displayed only if you have “automatic appending” option. If you are using PHP tag for output you need to enter top text html manually before calling PHP tag in your theme files. Sorry for these inconveniences.

Hey,
Just installed this, and it’s looking like the best one I’ve installed so far.

I’m running in to a problem though, every single type of thumbnail I select, the plugin displays the default image.

http://beforethebuff.com/19/bill-stickers-will-be-prosecuted/

I have tried all the normal thumbnail outputs, and I’ve tried the custom output. No avail.

Any ideas?

Hi Mike, for your website you need to use “Custom field” as thumbnails source in plugin settings. Enter correct “Custom field name” – it should be exactly the same as the name of custom field used on your Post Edit screen to enter post thumbnail URL. Also fill in “Theme resize URL”. For your website it will be “http://beforethebuff.com/wp-content/themes/ThemeGM/GrungeMag/timthumb.php”.

There is no custom field in my posts for thumbnails. The theme has a script that makes the thumbnails on the fly.

I also tried putting the path to the post image in the Custom field, but still nothing happens.

Mike, I am going to improve my plugin in the next version to support such themes and make it more universal, but this will be probably done in the next month.
Meanwhile, I can suggest you the following.

- In plugin settings page select “Post thumbnails” as Thumbnails source.
- Edit plugin file (you can do it under Plugins->Editor, select “Related Post Thumbnails”).
Find this text “Changing image according to WordPress standards” and replace the line that goes after it “$url = ….;” (line number 236) to:

$url = 'http://beforethebuff.com/wp-content/themes/ThemeGM/GrungeMag/timthumb.php?src=' . $image . '&w=80&h=80&zc=1';

Edited it, still not showing up.

I think the problem might be that the plugin I use for posting photos doesn’t attach the picture, but instead adds a custom field pointing to the image path, then sets the post as an image tag pointed at it.

So, each post has a custom field with ‘photoQPath’ pointed to the server path of the image. I tried setting ‘Custom Field’ to photoQPath, and then the thumbnailing script, but that also didn’t work.

Any ideas? I apologize for pestering you with my problem, I know you don’t don’t have to help me with this; I very much appreciate your help, and I’ll gladly pay you for your time helping me.

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Mike, you need to use “Custom field” then. Please turn on Developer mode in plugin settings so I can see what’s going on.

Turned it on and took a look myself.

Looks like photoQPath is the server path, so it’s printing [thumburl]tim.php?url=[serverpath] which can’t be parsed.

Hi, love your plugin. But is it a bug? I don’t want the plugin to show up everywhere, so I unchecked the “all” checkbox and checked the specific category’s. But if i save this, the checkboxes are unchecked again. So, I only can check “all”.

Mike, thanks for turning on Developer mode. To fix the problem, you need to add the following code on line 201.

$url = substr($url, strpos($url, ‘/wp-content’));

I’ll add this in future version also.

Hi Pascal, I was able to reproduce this issue, please update plugin to version 1.2.5 I just uploaded.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/

Thanks for pointing to this problem.

Thank you Mary! Upgrade worked perfectly.

I very much appreciate your help — it’s nice to have confirmations that there are decent people in this world.

I am glad it worked, Mike, thanks!

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hey there

love this plugin. only, whatever I do, I can’t get the thumbnails to show up, and I prefer not to use custom fields. Could you help me out with this? Many thanks!

Hi Mary! I love, love, love this plugin. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thank you so much! I have just a couple of questions about it…

1) On some posts, the thumbnails show up brilliantly but on others some have the default image, such as here:

http://globetrotterdiaries.com/recipes/cochinita-pibil-eating-the-yucatan-peninsula-mexico

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

2) For some reason, posts with this particular tag are including all similarly tagged posts plus others:

http://globetrotterdiaries.com/recipes/banh-mi-eating-vietnam

(Those first two are tagged “Banh Mi” but the last three are tagged “Bobotie” and shouldn’t be included in the related posts here.)

3) I am wondering how the order is chosen for these. I’d like these to be ordered based on post date from earliest to latest. Essentially for this site, it’s a series people are supposed to be reading… Any way to do this?

4) Lastly, any way to remove the “tagged as: blah blah blah” beneath the thumbnails?

Thanks again so much, Mary!

I’m almost there except for one thing. I have the custom field and field name in there and the image shows up. The image shows up without the url to the php image re-sizer but it just takes a chuck of the picture and puts it up there instead of resizing the entire image down to the desired proportions.

When I put the url of the image re-sizer in there, it no longer shows an image at all and just the default image.

Here’s an example link. – http://monashoressports.com/?p=12

I also enabled ‘developer mode’. Thanks for insight into this!

Diggins, you can use “Post thumbnails” as Thumbnails source. Read more about it here http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/
After you enable post thumbnails in your theme according to the article, you can use this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/ to generate post thumbnails for existing posts.

Hi Valerie, Thanks for feedback!
1) Please turn on Developer mode in plugin settings so I can see what is the problem.
2) Please make sure you selected “Relation based on” as “Tags” in plugin settings, cause by default it will link also posts not only with the same tag, but in addition with the same category.
3) The order of posts are random. It’s an interesting idea, I’ll think about this in future releases. Thanks!
4) “tagged as” is not a part of this plugin, it is a part of your theme and you need to change your theme for this. May be Thesis theme support can help you with this.

M.Anderson, I am not sure why, but I can see that the same images can be found at 2 different locations on your site:
1. http://monashoressports.com/files/2010/07/football_article.jpg
2. http://monashoressports.com/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/07/football_article.jpg

And resizing script can work only with the second URL, as you can see:
1. http://monashoressports.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/thumb.php?src=http://monashoressports.com/files/2010/07/football_article.jpg&w=134&h=75&q=90
2. http://monashoressports.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/thumb.php?src=http://monashoressports.com/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/07/football_article.jpg&w=134&h=75&q=90

Right now the custom field you provided has URLs like (1), and they are not working with resizing script.

First, may be there is some other Custom field with “blogs.dir” in their URL?

Or may be it is altered to this (2) option somewhere in your theme or WordPress or other plugin files? If you can find how is this “blogs.dir” adding to Custom field value this may help to customize this plugin.

Hey Mary,

Thanks so, so much for your help! I went ahead and turned on developer mode so you can see what’s happening. I also dealt with the “tagged as” issue. Didn’t realize that was a thesis thing, so thanks for that!

Before you give me any more of your time though, I didn’t realize the order of the thumbnails that are chosen couldn’t be controlled. I found this plugin because I was looking for a way to help readers navigate posts. The site works as a weekly series of posts. What I want is a way for them to see when they get to the bottom of a post exactly which posts are related (based on tags I’d assign to each post that week) and the order they were published in so that they can make their way through the series. Is this at all possible using this plug in? I love it so much, I’d hate to let it go!

Thanks again, Mary and hope to hear from you soon!

Valerie,

Thanks for turning on developer mode. Some posts that show default image provide empty URLs. When you go to your Post Edit screen do you see thumbnail in “Post thumbnail” block?
If you can’t see them for those posts with default images I would suggest to run this plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/
If you can see them, I guess that at some point Media settings were changed, and I would suggest to run this plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

Right now the order of related posts thumbnails can’t be controlled in this plugin. Thank you for this idea, I’ll probably add this feature in future releases.

Hi:

Thanks for the plugin. It is exactly what I was looking for.
However, I have the same issue as some of the previous people had with my thumbnails not showing…
I’m so new to this and I believe that I’m doing everything right when writing a post (I insert an image from my drive in the post) however, I still cannot see the thumbnail below the content in “related posts” (just a space where an image should have been). Please please help…
thank you sooo much!

Hi Tasha, as I can see on your site it seems like you already figured out where the problem was. Let me know if there is still problem. Thanks!

Hi:

Thank you Mary. Yes, I played with it a bit and apparently my theme has an option to use an image as featured image instead of inserting it into the body of my posts. And it worked.

Looks great! Thank you so much for this plugin! )) Have a great day!

T.

Hi, great plugin and easy to use. Thanks.

I have a suggestion/request though. I would love to be able to call thumbs based on custom taxonomies.

I have read through all the comments to try and debug the plugin on my site but I can’t seem to get the thumbnails to work. My site is primarily videos so I was trying to upload thumbnails that don’t actually show up on each post. I was hoping to use the custom fields so I can input the images when I make each post, but they don’t seem to show up.

The only thumbnails that do show are when I put thumbnail source to “thumbnails” and it only pulls images from pages in which I used an image in the actual post.

(I tried adding the thumbnail option in the theme functions but I fail miserably at php, then I tried using a thumbnail plugin and that didn’t register either)

I turned developer mode on, thanks for any help you can provide.

I love the plugin, but I have a couple of questions/requests:
I would like to place the thumbnails side-by-side in a 2×2 or3x3 grid without any text in the sidebar widget, is this possible?
How can I change the size of the thumbnails? I would like them a little smaller, 100×100.
I would love for this to show random or most recent posts on the home page (and other pages) and related posts on the individual post pages – just a thought. Thanks again for the great plugin!

Hi,

First thanks for the plugin, it is exactly what I’m looking for only thing it doesn’t show thumbnails. I went through all your instructions and each post has a thumbnail, but it just doesn’t show. So I turned developer mode on and saw that it finds the thumbnail (I tried out the image source urls that it showed and they’re correct), after it says that it found the image it says ‘Image is empty or no file’. I really don’t know how to fix this.

Also is there a way I can get related posts to show in the index page as well as the individual posts?

Roxy

Hi Al, thanks, I had such feature request and going to add this in future. Thanks!

Great! I am looking forward to it.

Anita, thanks for turning on developer mode, I found a bug with custom URLs if they were defined relatively. I just updated plugin to version 1.2.6 with the fix of this issue.

Hi bujaman, thanks!

If your thumbnails are 100×100 and your sidebar width > ( 200 + padding between thumbnails) and you set number of thumbnails as 4 they will appear in 2×2, as they are trying to fill in to the left if they have space.

If you want to change your thumbnails as 100×100 the easiest way would be to go to your Media settings in WordPress admin area and set “Thumbnail size” as 100 x 100. After that, you need to run this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ to change already existing thumbnails from 150 to 100.

Random and recent – I’ll probably add this in future releases, or may be it will be just another plugins.

Roxy, probably you have the same issue as Anita, I just updated plugin with the fix. Thanks!

Thanks for the quick reply! It is working great now!

Excelent plugin and coding
Can we have a changelog please?
Also, consider doing this opensource. You might get others help and make this even better

i`ve installed this plugin but it doesn`t show my thumbnails, the site is http://www.blog.chestiiutile.com/counter-strike-1-6/patchuri-cssource-2010.html .same isue and on another site http://www.coduricss.info help please!!!

Hi odys, thanks!

I uploaded this plugin on github:
http://github.com/progmary/Wordpress-Plugin-Related-Posts-Thumbnails

Hi Yamasha, on your Post Edit screen you can see the block “Featured Image”, where you need to set your post thumbnail.

Is it possible to have the same thing for Custom post types and taxonomies but not only for posts and categories? I would like to have this feature for my products custom type page. tnx

Hi Robert, custom post types are not supported. Custom taxonomies will be supported in future versions.

Hi!

This plugin is amazing!! But I have a question that I hope you can answer to me. I use in my site the theme bellow:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/04/download-gallery-a-free-wordpress-theme/

And I use a custom field to show the thumbs in the related posts. Works great, but the thumbs are not being resized. I look in the the entire theme without success, I can’t find the php script that resize the images… Do you have any ideas where I can find the script to resized thumbs in this theme?

Thanks a lot!!

Regards!

Hi vercetti, thanks for the feedback. This resizing script sometimes is provided by theme, but the given theme doesn’t use it. I am going to make this plugin more independent by using its own timthumb – http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/. I will be able to update plugin with new features in September. Now I can suggest you to install this timthumb script on your server and set URL to it in pluggin settings.

Dear Mary,
Thank you for this plugin I really love how easy is to customize it!
I’m having a strange problem, though. The thumbs tend to overlap sometimes (not always; if I reload, I can get ‘em right). Any idea of why is this happening? :O http://twitpic.com/2bl9f2

Hi Zirta, thanks!
I guess it’s somehow conflicting with CSS of your blog. Try to call plugin by its tag < ?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> in single.php theme file after closing <article> tag in <div> with style=”position: relative;”. It’s hard to tell me exactly without seeing the plugin html.

Great wee plugin, had it up and running in seconds, just a few comments

you can’t really change the background colour via the settings page, as the default is white, as soon as you put your mouseover and then remove it, it goes back to white, not the colour specified through settings. also, sometimes it fails to actuality retrieve all the thumbnails. this seems to be random, as sometimes it will show a posts thumbail and other times it will not.
any advice?
cheers.

Hi there – love the plugin settings and such! Getting a nice widget like this with thumbnails is ideal for me. However, I’m having one problem … none of the posts seem to be relating! I’ve toyed around with another relating posts plug-in called “Efficient Related Posts”. I’m not sure how the algorithms and matches and such are set up, but I always found those relating posts to be spot on. This plugin, at least on my site, has seemingly random matches. Did I set up something incorrectly? Does it maybe take awhile for the matches to be established…? Is my blog (toonbarn.com) just different somehow?

I have the same problem like as Zirta. Must be something with css problem. Not alwasy but sometimes. Workaround ?

Hi Jess, about background – you are right, thanks for pointing to this, it will be fixed in next release.

This strange behavior with thumbnails is happening on the same page with the same related post?

Hi Rob, thanks for the feedback. In plugin setting try to set “Relation based on” as “Tags”. It should get related posts by tags only. This will limit the relation.

Hi neo, please try to use < ?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> tag instead of automatic appending and put it in your single.php somewhere in safe block. This worked for Zirta, maybe it will help you.

Hello again!
Neo and Mary, I’m still getting my thumbs overlapped. Very rarely, but still so. I even tested it without titles, and they still overlap sometimes! Really weird, hahaha xD

Hi Zirta, thanks for information! It would help me if you could give URL where I can see this overlapping in HTML. I believe, everything can be fixed Well, almost..

It’s very random, dear… I only get it by browsing a few posts through the related thumbs You could start here if you like… http://zirta.net/ana-and-paty

If you see it, don’t F5 or you’ll miss it!

Hello again! Thanks for the response

I have tried using “tags” as the only relation. Unfortunately, it still just seems like a random connection. I’m wondering if perhaps my blog is too large or perhaps the tags aren’t agreeable or something. I absolutely love all the feature and customizable options (and the sidebar widget-ability!) but I can’t get the posts to match up properly like with other (less featured) related plugins

Hi Zirta, thanks, I was able to caught it, I’ll try to find the way to fix this.

Rob, please also try only categories. You can also set the startdate for posts that will be included to exclude old posts.

Thank YOU, Mary! If you need access to my site to test anything about your plugin, please let me know, I’d be glad to be of help!

Hi Zirta and Neo, you can try the new version of plugin 1.2.7. It now has the option to select Output style, and you can select “List” style. This will produce cleaner output in complex themes.

Wow! Looking GREAT! And I notice more features in this update, thank you very much Mary! The list option is working perfectly for me ^___^

Nice, I am glad it’s working now OK! Best!

Hi there!

I am having problems with this plugin as the photos as thumbnails are not featured in my posts. What I see are the related posts with title but no photos. How can I fix this problem to start seeing the photos?

thankyou for plugins nice day all

Hi Gordy, please turn on Developer mode in plugin settings, so I can see what is happening

Hi there! I am a bit confused by your fabulous explanation and configuring of images. I have no pictures coming up, and I am not sure if I should download one of your suggested plug ins, or if I should just create a custom field (I have over 600 posts… soooo)

My site already pulls a sort of thumb-nailed image in a way… maybe you could help me understand the direction i should go?

Hi Marie, on your Post Edit screen how do you specify your post thumbnail? Do you set its URL in custom field under the post, or do you set it in “Featured Image” block? Can you see this “Featured Image” block on your Post Edit screen?

Hey there! I do have a featured image block on the right hand side of my posts page… however, my theme automatically pulls the first image to create an image post on the front page, as you see on my blog…

So, I am not sure where to call the thumbnail to…

Marie, if your featured images were not set, I suggest to run this plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/

It will automatically set your post’s first image as Featured Image for all your posts. You need to wait some time until the run process is finished.

In plugin settings you need to choose “Post thumbnail” as thumbnails source and it will take this Featured Image with the size specified in your Media settings.

will it affect my front page images? or this is just set for play with other plugins? I am going to do it right now…

No, this will not affect your front page images, as your theme uses its independent thumbnail generation.

Works like a charm!!

Thanks!

Regards!

Dear Maria, thanks for doing a great job for this plugin!
suggestion: will it be possible in future versions to add comments number link (and icon), for example like on related posts thumbnails on mashable.com (at the bottom of the page))? I think that would be great add-on to your plugin. Thanks!

Follow-up on the Locationizer question…

Reading through all the comments and instructions again, I see that the sidebar widget “will only display on single posts pages.”

That makes me sad as this is such an amazing plugin and would look great on related pages as well.

Is there anyway to tweak the code and allow the sidebar to show up on pages also? If this is just impossible, can you recommend a similar cool plugin that can?

Tony

Hi RoR, thanks for the idea, it sounds interesting, it will be possible to do this, but not soon.

Hi Tony, yes this plugin works only with posts in current version. You can change the code to work it with pages. You need to change line 719, and remove ” && !is_page()”. On line 84 try to change post_type=”post” to post_type=”any”. I suppose this should help, but I didn’t test it this way.

Thanks, Mary. That’s didn’t quite work, but I’m a step ahead. Perhaps you can help me figure out the next bit. (I’m a PHP newbie, but am trying to learn- mostly by trial and error.)

I took out the ” && !is_page()” on line 719 and changes post_type=”post” to post_type=”any” on line 84 as suggested. The impact was that I wasn’t able to filter by category, nor was the widget appearing on pages. I undid the changes on line 84 and the category filter worked again but the widget still wasn’t appearing on pages.

I tinkered a bit and changed, also on line 719 the ” if ( is_single()” to “if ( is_page()” and this allowed the widget to appear on pages (took it off single posts). However, it wasn’t showing the actual related posts – just the widget box and title. I copied that section of the code and added an elseif statement, so that it was appear on both single posts and on pages.

// function widget($args, $instance) {
// if ( is_single() ) { // display on single posts
// extract( $args );
// $title = apply_filters(‘widget_title’, $instance['title']);
// echo $before_widget;
// if ( $title )
// echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
// get_related_posts_thumbnails();
// echo $after_widget;
// }
// elseif ( is_page() ) { // display on pages
// extract( $args );
// $title = apply_filters(‘widget_title’, $instance['title']);
// echo $before_widget;
// if ( $title )
// echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
// get_related_posts_thumbnails();
// echo $after_widget;
// }
// }

This allows it to appear on both single posts and on pages, but I’m still left with the actual related posts not appearing on the pages. Appear just fine on single posts as expected, so no sure why it’s not on page. Will continuing probing and tweaking, but if you know off the top of your head, please let me know.

Thanks,
Tony

Hi Tony, I just realized that the problem with pages is that they don’t have categories and tags, based on what my plugin is searching related posts. I am sorry about this. I can suggest you to look at Javascript alternatives:
- outbrain http://www.outbrain.com
- linkwithin http://www.linkwithin.com

I thought of that first, and have been using the Map Categories to Page plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/map-categories-to-pages/) to provide my pages with categories.

I just played around with that a bit more, and while it does allow me to categorize pages, it’s not pulling them up when I go to that category page. I’ll get in touch with the developer for that. If I find out anything, I’ll let you know and maybe you can incorporate something like this into your next version.

Thanks for all your help. I do love this plugin for posts.

Sorry, very quick follow-up. The Map Categories to Pages plugin is showing those pages on the category page.

You can see 4 entries here, only the first of which is a post. The other are pages to which I’ve added the category TestCat.

http://newsite.partnershipsinaction.org/category/testcat/

I’ll take a look at the javascript options you suggested, but if you were able to incorporate this into your plugin, it would be all the more amazing, maybe even Premium-worthy!

SUCCESS!!

I figured it out. I ended up having to down the Executable PHP widget plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/) and using that to display the function in the sidebar of a page.

http://newsite.partnershipsinaction.org/publications-2/empowered/

I also was able to get it to almost work on my static home.php, except that it is only showing two posts, leaving out the third.

http://newsite.partnershipsinaction.org/

I have the query_post set to 3, so I’m not sure what’s going on. Would you have any ideas?

Tony

Okay, I’ve discovered that the issue is that the very latest post is showing up in the sidebar widget (displayed in sidebar using the php code in the PHP widget) but is not showing up when I use the same php code in my static home.php page.

Anyway to get around that?

Thx a lot for developing and sharing this, i guess it is the only one with the choice of relating by tags. You are awesome and pretty !! =o

Greetings from Brazil !!

Плагин отличный! Единственное, чего ему не хватает, чтобы быть идеальным – показывать похожие посты с картинками в RSS.

Dear Mary,
I’ve been thinking of a possible application for your plugin, although it may convert it into a completely new plugin!
I’d like to display a gallery with the post thumbnails of ALL my posts, as in a mosaic archive like this http://oseano.net/?x=browse&category=5 I wonder how could that be done with WP’s post thumbs

Kind regards and thank you again for your wonderful plugin!
Z.

Hi and thanks for the amazing plugin i was wondering if u can help me figure this out i have my post thumbs by category but i wanna post them in order by date not like its default randomly is there a way to do this ?

Suddenly, thumbnails are not displaying, only a blank image.

I use in the Loop, and I choose POST THUMBNAILS as thumb source.

I wanted to bring to your attention two bugs:

1. altering “Post-thumbnails name” to something other than the default “0″ does not save, it resets to “0″

2. “Font family” does not accept quotation marks, it replaces the entire entry with a slash (/) so fonts with more than one word in the name cannot be used (ie “Helvetica Neue”)

Hey guys, I’ll be back to you all after august 24th

Seems like a wonderful plugin but I cannot get the thumbnails to display properly. I’m using NextGen Gallery to generate my thumbnails and galleries, so maybe that has something to do with it? Any help would be much appreciated!

http://evanpike.me/blog/

Love our plugin.

Is there any way to centre the related posts.
ie. at the moment the thumbs and titles are left justified. I want to centre 3 related post thumbs and titles in the middle of the post.
I think this should be easy but I have no idea about coding.

Thanks for our time,
Have a good one,

Martin

Great plugin! But I seem to have a problem with the settings not applying. I have a few categories that I excluded (unchecked) in the settings, but they keep appearing as related posts.

I also tried matching by just Category, but no luck.

Am I correct in assuming that:

“Categories on which related thumbnails will appear” means that post with these categories will display related post thumbs, and that

“Categories that will appear in related thumbnails” is referring to the categories from which the plugin will choose related posts?

It almost seems to be working the opposite for me.

is it possible to display only the sidebar widget without repeating it under the text post.
Thanks

tiaurus, спасибо! есть такая идея, может добавлю в следующих версиях

Hi Zirta, you are right – this will be completely different plugin. I’ll think about it

Hi xstreammie, you can change line 132 of current version of plugin. Instead of “rand()” use “$wpdb->posts.post_date DESC” or without DESC if you need in reverse date order. I am going to add order option in future version.

Hi Danny, probably Media settings of your wordpress were changed, but new thumbnails were not generated. Please use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ plugin. If this is not the case please turn on developer mode and give me URL.

Hi Rene, thanks a lot. Going to fix this in next version.

Hi Evan, please turn on developer mode in plugin settings so I can trace the reason.

Hi Martin, you can select Output style as “List” and turn off plugin CSS style in plugin settings. Then use your own CSS rules to ul tag with id related_posts_thumbnails in your stylesheet. Let me know if you need help with CSS.

Hi George, this is correct how you are assuming it should work. I just tested on my local server and it is working as it should. Please let me know in detail what’s behavior on your blog?

Hi new, yes it’s possible. in plugin settings turn off Automatic appending. In Appearance > Widgets use Related Posts Thumbnails widget.

does this plugin have issues with facebook? because whenever I am trying to post the link of my posts from my blog to facebook wall, no thumbnail appears on facebook wall, only the full url path of the post– no meta tag, no description, no thumbnail whatsoever.

I have tried deactivating the plugin on my site and whenever I do, the links i post on facebook from my blog cgoes back to normal– which means it includes thumbnails from my posts. But when ever I try to actuivate the plugin back, facebook is having difficulty reading or scanning thumbnails from my posts.

It seems this plugin has some issues with facebook or it blocks other sites from reading its thumbnails. Can you please help? I really like the plugin but it keeps getting issues with facebook.

Hi bluep, I didn’t test it with facebook, try change Output style to List in plugin settings – this will generate cleaner markup, probably facebook javascript is confused by blocks HTML

Hello again.

I tried your suggestion but it is still not working.

I also put the shortcake directly on the singlepost.php but to no avail.

Seems to be working OK now, not sure what the deal was. Thanks!

I figured out what was confusing me: it seems that the checkboxes for which categories to include is the culprit.

It seems if a post has more than one category, and one category in included, and another excluded, it still shows up.

Would be great if things were set up so that if an excluded category is included at all (even if there’s another included category), the post is excluded.

I know I probably shouldn’t have multiple categories for posts, but I did it that way long ago before I knew better

Hmmm, I just saw a post that was only in one category (a category that was excluded), and it showed up in the related post thumbs.

Right now I have the setting to only consider Categories for related posts.

Very hard to display vertically related posts !
Somebody did it?

Just letting you know I turned developer mode on for you, thank you!

Hi Maria,

Great Plugin! Do you think it is possible showing up a list (not blocks) with thumbnail (I got in mind something like Wp-Thumbie style)?

If this option is the “list” one it doesn’t work in my wp installation. Any idea about a solution?

Thank you,
Luca

massimiliano falduto, you can turn off plugin css and use List output style in plugin settings and use your own CSS settings

Hi Evan, it says that your posts don’t have post thumbnails specified. On your Post Edit screen do you see the block Featured Image? You need to set post thumbnails there for each post.

Hi Luca, you need to set Output style as List in plugin settings.

Hi Admin!
I love Your blog is very nice!
However, I turn off display blocks. But what I have to fill in filed to generate thumbnail authomatically?

ps: sorry for my bad english I am italian!
Thanks a lot for Your gentle response.

Hi Mary,

I did it, but as you can see from http://www.convivendo.net, I got just block style!
It works properly and the result is perfect but I wanted an horizontal style (like this: http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-thumbie/screenshot-2.png?r=282508).

Any idea?
Luca

Hi Luca, List output style allows you to turn off plugin CSS and use your own CSS settings to display this list the way you need.

ok. Now I understand.

Any suggestion of coding for a simple table to start with (like the example in the link)?

Luca

This plugin is very versatile… Keep up the nice works…

Hi Luca, I just added this to manual. Check it here:

http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#horizontal_list

Forget all my previous comments, no need to accept them, all of them solved.
Thanks for the amazing plugin

Hello,

I am having trouble with the thumbnails not showing at all, no matter what option I pick. Thumbnail or Cutom (which I do not use)

Other than the image not showing the Plug in works liek a charm.

Is there a way I can find out why the thumbnail is defaulting to the default image. Each post only has an image in it so I am not sure why it is not finding it.

Thanks for any help on this.

Paul

I forgot to add to that last post the URL.. Sorry,

http://www.corbettcartoons.com

I turned on developer mode but it is really not showing anything on the front end for me.

Hi massimiliano, you can use this plugin to generate thumbnails http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/

Hi Tre, thanks! I am glad it worked out.

Hi Paul, please turn on “Developer mode” in plugin settings and let me know.
Also please take a look at possible problems section
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Hi Menon Moon, thanks!

I also posted here..
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-related-posts-thumbnails-thumnail-not-really-showing?replies=2

Can someone please help me figure this out as I need these thumbs to show.

Do I need another plug in to generate thumbs.

Thanks for any help or advice on this,

Paul

Well I figured it out.. You need to set a featured image for each post in order for them to show correctly under each post.

Guess I just needed to re-read the docs….

thanks

paul

Hi Paul, yes.

This block was called “Post thumbnail” in previous WordPress versions, but now it is called “Featured Image”, so it’s confusing now.

George C, I just found that there is probably a bug if the post in just 1 category and relations are based only on categories. I’ll try to fix this in the next version.

Any way to show the dates along with the post titles?

Also, what’s the shortcode? [related-post-thumbnails]?

Hi Brett,
There is no way to show dates using plugin interface – this requires changes in PHP code of plugin.
Shortcode – is a tag, that you can use in the post body and it will be replaced by plugin’s output right in that place in post body.

Sounds great, thanks!

works BUT,

i load a site on IE and its fine…..i load the same page on firefox

and the thumbs keeps one on top of the other

sometimes then it keeps one and the next one below, its a mess on firefox.

i havent touch anything apart from loading the plugin and going default with it.
i just want it to load normally like on IE. how do i do that? cause i ask other people and everyone is having the same issue on firefox.

thanks.

Hi Cody Maldonado, in plugin setting select Output style as List. This will produce cleaner HTML. Probably default output style is conflicting with your theme HTML.

thanks for the quick reply

now it looks ok, but

its 3 thumbnails per row?

how do i put more than 3 thumbs on a row?

i put 5 thumbs,…..and 3 goes up, and the other 2 are put bellow. is there any way to fix this?

sorry im newbie

I love this plugin, but it’s behaving very strangely.

I cannot, in any way, get related posts to display on pages. I’ve tried everything.

Deticked the ‘page type – show on single posts only’

Have placed the template code within the loop of page.php.

Have turned on developer mode.

Nothing works. Developer mode doesn’t even output anything.

It works just find on single posts.

Any ideas? I’ve not had trouble like this with a plugin not working when called in the loop before.

Thanks

Anthony.

Hi Cody Maldonado, plugin displays thumbnails of related posts, and if it could find just 3 related posts (same category and tags) it will display only 3. If you need to display always 5, and not exactly related, you can set Relation as “Random” in plugin settings.

Hi Anthony, this plugin is working with posts only and does not work with pages.

I am encountering a strange problem. I have a CSS mouseover to show a larger image on my category page.

When I enable the featured image for that post, the thumbnail no longer is enlarged, it just shows the same thumbnail size as the one mousing over.

Is there some css that is being over ridden when you set the featured image in posts?

Thanks for any help or advice on this,

Paul

Hi Paul, in plugin settings you can select output style as list and even turn off plugin styles completely so they won’t overwrite your theme CSS.

Thanks for the help,

Well, that did not seem to fix the issue so back to the drawing board I guess.

The featured image is somehow controlling my category page in an odd way.

Hi. This is a great plugin.

Is there a way that I can tell it NOT to display ANY related content if there is not an exact match with the categories?

Plugin works great when a post has related content but when a post has no related content, it automatically populates it with unrelated content?

Very Good, It’s plugin works at my web site.

Hello,
I am testing S2member http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/ a member plugin and I try to hide a category or a tag relative posts.
The plugin has some API and I try to get:
if the visitor is a member then shows the regular thumbnail
else shows a default image
The function “if the visitor is a member” exists with S2member so I wanted to know if there is a simple way to integrate this in your plugin.
I know it’s a strange demande and if there is no simple solution just say it to me, it’s OK

Bonjour,
j’ai activé le plugin, j’obtiens le texte mais pas l’image, seulement l’image par défaut.
Cela vient-il de mon thème wp et y a-t-il une solution ?
Merci pour la réponse.

Hi,

You’re plugin is great but I would like to know if it possible for posts that do not have related content to not display ‘other content’ and to just display blank?

When there is related content to an item in my catalogue area, it works amazingly but when there is no related entry I get a bunch of random posts. I just want nothing to show.

Can you help?

Thanks

Hi Li-An, you need to change plugin code. In current version of plugin, it decides if to use default image on line 264 via if condition. So you can start this whole condition with this “not is_a_member OR ” and the rest current code to display default image if not a member.

Hi Matt, I can suggest to set Relation as only categories in plugin settings to eliminate related posts based on tags. Also there is currently a bug if only one post in a category, this will be fixed in the next version.

Thank you for quick answer. I will have a look on it.

Salut DavidB, s’il vous plaît jeter un oeil à “Problèmes et Solutions Possibles” l’article ici
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=fr&u=http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails
Désolé pour mon français (Google Translate)

À DaviDB: tu as bien des images attachées à ton billet par l’intermédiaire du gestionnaire de médias WP ? Tu as activé la gestion des miniatures de WP ?

Hi,
I am using this great plugin.. Thank you for this plugin..

Thumbnails in my site is 150×150 px so when I use the plugin the images looks 150×150 px. I do not want to change thumbnail size fron the admin panel. I want to use these 150×150 size thumbnail but I want it shown in the page as 100×100 or 90×90 size.. İs this possible to do this changing some code in the plugin?

Hi Muharrem, this is what the new WordPress feature is doing – allows to create different sizes of thumbnails. Please read more information here http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Hi, I love this plugin, but does not work properly “Relation Builder Options.” Every time I load one of my pages, leave other related posts. I use the “Categories and Tags.” You can check in:
http://is-arquitectura.es/2010/09/14/la-silla-ghost-de-poliester-transparente/

Hi Adfer, thanks, but I can’t see what is wrong. All posts have the same tag “color”, so they are displayed as related.

Hi Mary, thanks for this great plugin.
Im currently using it in my website but there is 1 slight problem. Some times it wont show properly like in this image:

http://h.imagehost.org/0805/problem.png

Is there a way to fix?

Hi Maria,
The images don’t appear, only a blank image.. We use a Woo Themes theme witch has the latest version of TimThumb, but nothing is shown.
Any Suggetions?

Hi Marcelo, please take a look at this section http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems
If this does not help, please turn on “Developer mode” in plugin settings and let me know.

Hi AKLP, I was unable to see the given image link. In plugin settings please try to use “Output style” as “List”. This will produce cleaner HTML, as default style may conflict with some themes.

Alright, thumbnails actually show up every now and then with the latest upgrade of my theme.

However, they only show up about 1/10 of the time and they do not pull from my theme’s ‘custom’ or ‘featured’ image, it pulls the thumbnail from a picture that was inserted into the post.

As far as my thumbnail settings go, I have Post Thumbnails as the thumbnail source and post thumbnails name as thumbnail.

If you go here,

http://eastgrsports.com/

then click on an article, you see the related content at the bottom. Most of the time, it shows the standard image with the articles that don’t have images but you will also see related articles that have no thumbnail whatso-ever. And then, every now and again, you will see a thumbnail down there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Matt, please turn on “Developer mode” in plugin settings.

Developer mode is on, thanks!

I am also using a WooTheme, Canvas. It uses thumb.php to re-size all of the images on my site. I upload a ‘custom’ image in each post and it places that at the top along with putting the image next to the post on the front and archive pages.

Matt, in plugin settings you need to set “Thumbnails source” as “Custom Field”, specify Custom field name. This is the name of custom field on Post Edit screen, where you enter URL to post thumbnail (like “Image” or “Thumbnail”). Also set “Theme resize URL” as “http://eastgrsports.com/wp-content/themes/canvas-8-30-10/thumb.php”

ps, please also update plugin to last version, it seems like it is not the last one.

I made the changes, now no image appears there, does that mean I have to manually add a thumbnail image to each post in the custom fields area?

I am on version, 1.2.7, I think that’s the latest?

Thanks for your help.

Matt, yeah this is strange, that now all posts have no thumbnails at all.

I thought you already have such custom field, where you specify thumbnail URL for each post. How do you specify it?

I also noticed, that it should show default image instead of empty ones, but it doesn’t – this is a bug if Custom Field source selected, and it requires small fix. I’ll update this in the next couple days.

Nope, when I upload the featured image via the custom theme uploader inside of the post, it creates a thumbnail for me but it doesn’t place it in a custom field, not sure where it’s stored, etc.

Matt, I see. I can’t say how this theme stores thumbnail URL. Also, this theme is not supporting Featured Image – http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

The only way this will work with my plugin is by specifying thumbnail URL in Custom field for each post.

You can also take a look at some javascript solutions:
- outbrain http://www.outbrain.com
- linkwithin http://www.linkwithin.com

Thanks for all your help, I’ll take it from here, you have a terrific plugin and also take the time to see that it works for the masses

Hi Maria and matt,
I use a theme WooThemes (headlines) and managed to make it work.
Add ‘add_theme_support (‘ post-thumbnails’); “without (“) in functions.php and add the “Post plugin Generate Thumbnails” BINGO!
It worked perfectly!
An example: http://viladoartesao.com.br/blog/2010/09/renove-os-moveis-do-seu-jardim/
Tks Mary for plugins!

Marcelo,

I add this line to functions.php

add_theme_support (‘post-thumbnails’);

I installed the Generate Post Thumbnails plugin, then ran the plugin and still didn’t get them to show up.

Is the line above exactly how it is supposed to be shown in functions.php.

In the plugin options I have;

Thumbnails Souce set to —– Post thumbnails
Post thumbnails name set to —– thumbnail

Am I missing something that you can see?

Thanks, your site and the modification look tremendous!

Matt,
Exactly, but I set (media, thumbnail) 166 x 166.
Thank for your compliment.
And Pray!

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where the Other Cartoons are displayed at this link here, http://www.corbettcartoons.com/?p=479, is there a way to create some extra space so i can space out the post from other cartoons?

hi
i am using thesis template. thumbnails are not appearing.

pls help

Hi Paul, please use CSS for this purposes (your theme’s style.css).
You can have more control by this block using php tag < ?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> instead of automatic appending.
Or you can select Output style as List and control display by altering CSS for id=rrelated_posts_thumbnails block.

Hi admin, please read this section for possible solutions
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/comment-page-5/#possible_problems

Thanks so much Mary for all your help with this,

Paul

Thanks Mary for sharing Your precious advises!

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Hey Mary.

I cant get the thumbnails to show up for anything. Ive tweaked the settings in thousands of ways but still nothing shows up. My blog is still in the works so ive changed quite a bit of my original CSS. But i think that cant be the problem.

I have the developer option turned on and would really appreciate if you could take a moment of your time and check out what i am missing..

thanks in advance!

jure

Hi Jure, it says given custom field is empty. What is the name of custom field, where you save thumbnail URL?

ok… I still dont know what happened but when i added a new custom field in one of my posts the whole thing started to work… it was like something jumpstarted it.. then i erased the field and the plugin stayed visible… so i guess the problem is solved…

thanks…

great work by the way…

jure

i got crazy acticating it until i read that message to turn into a list view!
10x man, this is a great plugin that would create extra traffic

you the man!
Cheers, Sagive

Love the plugin! I thought it was working perfectly until one day I loaded up Firefox (I only use Safari on a regular basis) and I noticed none of my “related posts” were loading correctly.

They aren’t loading “horizontally” but are stacked vertically with a weird square area cut out. It’s very strange. Seems fine in Safari though!

Here is a post example with the problem in Firefox:
http://www.scanyourentirelife.com/2010/organization-preventing-starting-scan-photo-collection/

Any ideas?
Curtis

Hi Curtis, please try changing Output style as List in plugin settings.

Mary ~

Thanks for answering me. I tried setting my output style to “list”, but then it prints the related posts vertically (not horizontally) and it doesn’t display the thumbnails.. it lists out the html.

Here is a screenshot when I have it set to list output:

http://www.scanyourentirelife.com/images/misc/related_posts_output-list.png

Curtis

Hi Curtis, I have an idea, where a problem can be – beginning text of the post.

This happens if Excerpt field under the post on Post Edit page is empty, and excerpt is generated from post body with html tags. If this is the case, I’ll fix this in the next version.

You can now either fill in Excerpt field for each post manually (that is a good thing anyway), or turn off Excerpt in plugin settings by setting Excerpt maximum length to 0. After that I suggest to use Output style as List.

Upd: I just noticed that there are strange tags: <font color=”#2A93B0″> that didn’t come with the plugin, have you added them? The problem is that they open but do not close.

Hello!
Thank you very much for this great plugin, it’s wonderful – that’s why i choose to use it on my blog.
However, i have some small issues regarding thumbnails – for the most of the posts, i get the default image (i have 1 or 2 thumbnail pictures).
Maybe in time this will be fixed?
Thanks in advance for some advices!

Hi optimizare site, thanks!
If your theme supports “Featured Image” option, do all posts have assigned Featured Image?
More details would help me to find the problem, like enabling developer mode in plugin settings.

Hey,

thanks for the great plugin.
But i have a problem with wpml multilingual website.
On this page you see a product with “related posts” as “more products”
http://thebuxton.net/t-shirts/hallo-welt/

If i change the language they disappear.

I solved the same problem at the slideshow with something like this
—————–
$o_ID = icl_object_id($post->ID, ‘post’, false, ‘de’);
—————–
as id of the images source.

so where can i change the id’s in the code, so that the links point to the english or spanish products, but show the “german” thumbnails?

Best regards

Hi joecomo, if you are talking about post thumbnail ID, I retrieve it on line 223:

$post_thumbnail_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID );

does wordpress 3.1 supports this plugin??

SearchTrax, last version of WordPress available today is 3.0.1, and this plugin is compatible up to 3.0.1

Admin ~ (you wrote)
“Hi Curtis, please try changing Output style as List in plugin settings.”
—————————-
1) You were helping me a few days ago and wrote this to me. (I was having problems in Firefox with my related posts displaying vertically) Since then, you also gave us a new update. When I did the automatic update in wordpress, it replaced [your] php file for the plugin where I had hacked a couple lines of your code (gasp – I know).

if ( !empty($title) && !empty($excerpt) ) {
$title = ‘‘ . $title . ‘‘;
$excerpt = ” . $excerpt;

This is what I had put in there… because I really really wanted to have a separate color for the title of my posts in your plugin than the excerpt color below it. Also, the newbie that I am, used the so that I could get a couple extra lines between the post title and the excerpt. I guess that caused the problems in Firefox for me.

So now that my “hack” has been overwritten, the plugin looks fine in Firefox. I just wanted to let you know that it WASNT your plugin’s fault for my problems.. it was ALL me! (of course you probably already knew that didn’t you )

2) I tried to put your plugin in “list” mode as you suggested, and it worked.. BUT my thumbnails aren’t perfectly square.. such as 150×150. They are more like 150×100 or so (wider than tall). So in list mode, my thumbnails get squished to being square and look funny. Which is a shame, because in list mode, it looks better – there is less space between the thumbnail and the post title. (example on my site currently running in block mode: http://www.scanyourentirelife.com/2010/organization-preventing-starting-scan-photo-collection/)

3) Would you consider adding the option to change the color of the post title in the “Related Posts Thumbnails Settings”… a field where we can type in a hex color code in the style section? I tried to do it with CSS but there doesn’t seem to be a class for it that I can modify in my custom css.
4) Would you consider letting us add some space between the post title and the excerpt so it isn’t so close together. (It’s kind of hard to differentiate the two when they are so close together and the same color) Just 1 line would probably do it. Maybe just a checkbox that says “add space between post title and excerpt” for example. Or maybe make them both div’s and give us margin control over it in our custom css.

Thanks! (I wouldn’t be “bothering” you with all this if I didn’t LOVE your plugin!)
Curtis

Sorry.. my php code didn’t come through here in the comments. Here a link to a screen capture of the code I entered in as a hack for anyone interested:

[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/1604qwp.png[/IMG]

or

http://tinypic.com/r/1604qwp/7

hehe yee sorry i mean 3.0.1 – gr8 thanks a lot

Thank you for the plugin.

Tried many ‘related post with tumbnail’, yours is the only one compatible with WPML – The WordPress Multilingual Plugin. Others could posts in non-intended language.

Request: can the border created around all sides, not just the left and right? Also is it possible to automatically create border around the thumbnail?

Hi There

I would like to use your plugin but with a custom post type. Is it possible to show related post thumbnails with a custom post type?

Thanks,
Albert

Do not know what I’m doing wrong, it shows no pictures

Hi Curtis, with the List view you can control all CSS settings, set height and width, colors, spaces and etc. using #related_posts_thumbnails

Hi uLikmAyang, thanks. In plugin settings you can set Output style as “List” and change all css settings as needed.

Hi Albert, no. This plugin works only with “posts” post type.

Hi Ingalill, you need to set “Featured Image” for each post.

Hello, This plugin looks awesome, I want to try it! I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function current_theme_supports() in /path/Blog/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 414

I’m using vivazoom, is that part of the problem? I use it to generate thumbnails for my /blog page. Thank you!

MyRideisMe, this function appeared in WP 2.9. Check your WP version, this plugin works only with WP 2.9+

If you are ever in Denver, I would like to buy you a pizza!

Scott, thanks! I am in San Francisco

Thanks a lot! This is so coool.

Greate Plugin, Thanks

I’m using this plugin (tested it out but currently using YARPP, but will switch for reals once I have more images, I think people are much more likely to click on them) on my soon-to-be-officially-launched site; It works very well, is thoughtfully put together and very well explained and supported. Hope not to embarrass you by saying this, but it is so good to see a woman developing stuff like this!

–Michelle

Dear Mary,
Just to say that the thumbs sometimes don’t load when in list mode, with my own css. I have to reload to actually see them. It works smoothly on block mode, though

http://zirta.net/kami2hot

Michelle, thank you very much for this nice feedback!

Hi Zirta, I am glad it’s working in block mode. I made two options for different themes, but I think list mode should work with right CSS.

Hello
I’d like to install the extension 2 times
An extension to display the thumbnails in the article (59px x 59px in tags)
An extension to display the thumbnails in the sidebar (by category 200px x
100px)

Thank you

Hello,

My site has html pages and blog page. Can this plugin link to an html page as well?

Thanks.

Thanks for this terrific plugin.

Request: Make the image/link more SEO friendly.

Hi lilographik, please read here how to add different sizes in your theme: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Hi Maria, no, this plugin only works with posts.

Hi Stephen, thanks for suggestion. I’ll see what I can do for better SEO. Right now you can try “List” mode in plugin display settings, it generates content that is more SEO friendly.

Hi Mary.

Thanks for your reply.

I have wp post on my WP Blog page. But, I want to create Related Posts with thumbnails on them to my HTML pages. Do you mean the plugin won’t work that way? The plugin work only post to post within WordPress?

Thanks again.

Hello Mary,

I am not a techie.

If the plugin works only on post to post within WordPress, do you think there will a turnaround to make use of your plug in? For example, maybe, I can create a wp post on the same title as my HTML page, but redirects to an HTML page. When the plugin cites the Related WP post, this will go to the WP Post but seconds later will redirect to an HTML page.

I really like your plugin but my site is loaded with HTML pages and with wp blog posts on as well.

Do you know of a turn around that might work like what I described?

Thanks for your help.

Hello Mary,
installed the plugin and the Generate Plugin too, but I cannot see any thumbnail. I’m uploading only one image per post (that’s a Product thumbnail image) and it doesn’t how up.

I’m curently in this setting:
Thumbnails source: Post thumbnail
Post-thumbnails name: entry-thumb

Also turned on the Developer mode on the site: http://www.pianetaproibito.net

I’ll be glad if you could help =)

Hola Mary I couldn’t make it work with my css -which was rounded corners border and shadow, all with css3, so I decided to use the default blocks in my design http://zirta.net/kami2hot

Just a question/request: Could you please share the default css of the plugin blocks version? I’d like to apply it to another thumbs in my site so the design is uniform. I looked at the plugin’s source but couldn’t interpret the block css out of it, haha. Pretty please?

Best,
Betty.

Hi Claudia,
If you added declaration of “entry-thumb” to your theme after your posts were created and all your posts have “Featured Image” block assigned, you need to run “Regenerate thumbnails” plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

Hi Zirta, Block output style generates HTML code with inline styles. The best way to see generated HTML is via “View HTML source” on page with thumbnails.

I just copied this from your source for one item:

  <a onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#FFFFFF'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#F0F0F0'" style="background-color: #FFFFFF; border-right: 1px solid #FFFFFF; border-bottom: medium none; margin: 0pt; padding: 6px; display: block; float: left; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; cursor: pointer;" href="http://zirta.net/siembra-un-arbol/"&gt;
    <div style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; width: 125px; height: 155px;">
      <div style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; background: transparent url(http://zirta.net/wp-content/uploads/siembra-un-arbol-by-zirta-125x125.jpg) no-repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; width: 125px; height: 125px;"></div>
      <div style="border: 0pt none; margin: 3px 0pt 0pt; padding: 0pt; font-family: ; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; color: #333333;">Siembra un árbol</div>
    </div>
  </a>

Hello Mary,
I already runned the Generate and Regenerate plugins, also emptied the cache and tried with a new browser but nothing still happens: I only see the default thumbnail image.

Is there something I am missing?
The debug is always on at http://www.pianetaproibito.net

Thanks a lot!

Claudia,

on your “Post Edit” screen, how do you set post thumbnails?

Have you assigned thumbnails in “Featured Image” block for each post on Post Edit screen?

I see that your theme is using timthumb to resize post thumbnail. Usually it means that theme is getting URL from Custom field of each post. If so, please try using “Custom field” as Thumbnails source in plugin settings.

Mary,
please forget all: I just changed the way you told and it worked fine, thanks a lot for your help =)

Just changed the name of the custom field into Thumbnails and it wenk ok, my mess was I didn’t get the right name so it was searching for something that simply wasn’t there!

Привіт! Дуже кльовий і охайно зроблений плагін! Нічого зайвого і все що треба на місці! Те що мені було потрібно ))

Дякую!

abase, я рада, що згодилося

you are welcome. дякую

First thx for this plugin… I have a little problem the images in a RSS-Feed (<img src="") can I disable images in the RSS… ? wp_rp_thumbnail == no only for the feed ?

Hi Voku, this plugin is altering page content without RSS content change. As you can see for example (http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarysWordpressPlugins). Probably, such behavior is triggered by some settings or other plugin. You can turn off automatic appending in plugin settings and use plugin php tag in your theme to have more control over thumbnails display.
<?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?>

Sorry you are right… I use too many Plugins, thx for the help!

Hi Maria

I like your plugin a lot; it’s well thought out. I’ve only added CSS classes to the anchors so to be able to style the title seperately from the excerpt.

I have 2 questions for you; firstly, I’ve set the Relation Builder Options to “Tags” but the plugin seems to generate a lot of relations, not only from the tags. how does it work? Couls I restrict it to tags only?

Also, I’d like to use the Widget with thumbnails, but it doesn’t generate anything but the title. I’ve tried many settings, didn’t get any output. I’m using WordPress 3.0.1 with the Twenty Ten theme (customized, of course).

So if you could help me with this it’d be great. xx Rico

Hi Rico,

In plugin settings there is an output style “List” which allows you to have more control over CSS settings.

If you set relations as tags only, it should include related posts only with similar tags (this is how it works on my blog). Please give me the link to your incorrect post and enable “Developer mode” in plugin settings, so I can check this.

You need to make sure, that your theme calls widgets inside the Loop. Also try this “List” output style, if there is some display conflicts with your theme, probably.

best!

Hi Maria. Tanks for your answer.

Yes I use the List HTML option — my CSS is fine. My problem is the “Related posts” generated by the plugin. I’ve set the plugin to Tags only, but the relations don’t seem to be right. For example, I have two posts with a “seventies” tag; when viewing one of those two, the other “seventies” post should show up in the “related” posts. It does not, I don’t understand why.

As for the widget, I use it as a normal WP3 dynamic widget. It produces no outout at all. Is it in the loop? I figure yes, it’s a normal widget.

As for the debug mode, I’m sorry, but on my website currently I use the YARPP plugin because it works as expected. I’d like to use your plugin for its widget (and because you seem like a great developer) but I currently run your plugin only on my local installation.

Thanks for your time. Too bad we live so far away!!! xx Rico

Hi Rico, thanks for explanations.

I tested on my server, if I set tags only as a relation, posts only with similar tags are shown. Are you sure there is no other common tag with related post, beside “seventies”? I’ll try to investigate this issue more closely, if I receive complaints about this from other users too.

Output of widgets can be anywhere in theme design, not necessary in the Loop. For example if they are Footer widgets they are not included in the Loop. Some sidebar widgets also can be not in the Loop. This can be checked by analyzing your theme’s index html file. You can use this plugin’s php tag “<?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?>” in your theme html file to make sure it appears in the Loop.

Rico, thanks again for the feedback!

Hi!
Thanks a lot for a great plugin and excellent support. I tried out several related post plugins before I found this. And it works exacly as I want it to.

There is only one problem. I want to push the text down a little bit from the thumbnails. And I read in your support that I should set output style to list and then click the box turn off plugin styles, to be able to style the text with css. But when I do that, all my thumbnails goes into a vertical line. How do I get the thumbnails to be displayed horizontally AND be able to use css?

Hi Anika, thanks!

You can leave plugin CSS styles (don’t turn off plugin CSS) with List output, so they will be vertical. And use #related_posts_thumbnails in your theme styles.css to adjust text padding settings.

Thanks a lot for your quick replay!

When I turn to list and dont turn of the plugin css, then the list is horizontal (as I want it). But then my theme-css dont apply to the plugin and I cant change the padding.

Nothing happens when i change my css.

If I click the turn off plugin CSS, then the list becomes vertical and I can do changes in my themes css.

This is what my page look like when I have the settings to List and the plugin CSS turned on. Horizontal and nice, but no padding:

http://www.astaform.se/bastard-forlag-logotyp/

Why does my thumbnails get vertical, when I read your support and its supposed to be horizontal? Is it something strange with my theme that makes it do the opposite?

Your plugin causes an Internal Server Error on my blog. I had to de-activate it. Cool concept but make it less resource intensive please. My site literally took 20 seconds to load when your plugin was active

Hi Annika, please try to add the following CSS setting:

#related_posts_thumbnails li a+a {
    padding-top: 5px;
}

Hi Henno, thanks for report. As tests showed on my server, for 3k posts execution time of this plugin was 0.017 sec in average. Of course this depends on many factors (other plugins, hosting server performance, number of posts). I can suggest you to try javascript alternatives, that will not load your server.

Thank you so much for your help!
It worked perfect. My thumbnails ar now horizontal, with padded text, and I also got the text centered.

Your thumbnail-plugin is the best!

my theme supports post-thumbnails feature, and i’d like to have diferent size of wordpress thumbnails and related post thumbnails(100, 100)

can you tell me hoe to do it?

best.

Hi Mary,

I have no words to describe this WordPress addon. I absolutely adore it. I do have a slight problem, though. It kinda collides with the Imbalance theme that I’m using. In other words, I need to allign the feature to the center, not right as in default. Example of my “problem” here: http://bit.ly/azmCe6

Still I hope to keep the elegant design as it is and the thumbnails in a horizontal order.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Nina

Hi Dodi, please read here about it: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Hi Nina, please try using Output style as “List” in plugin settings. It won’t conflict with your theme and will allow you to change CSS as needed using #related_posts_thumbnails selector.

Hi again Mary. Thanks a lot for your prompt response. I turned the plugin off for a second, trying to edit the CSS. You can see the link now, sent in the previous comment, although I guess you knew what I meant in the first place.

I changed the output style to List and tried editing the php, but with no results whatsoever. All I got is this:

Folder has no index file (index.html,index.htm,etc.)
Password protected folder
Trying to access a page with SSL
Access restricted for your IP address

Hi Nina, if you changed something in plugin PHP, that caused this, please reinstall the plugin (remove and install again). You need to change only CSS in styles.css of your theme to change display options. There is no need to edit PHP.

No, I can’t change anything in the plugins CSS i.e. related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php.

So, what exactly should I change in the styles.css? I pasted your aforementioned Output code but i’m not sure what to do now.

The plugins output style is – List. Plugins CSS is off.

Now i get this: http://bit.ly/azmCe6

Nina, you can leave plugin CSS as on with List output style in plugin settings if you want horisontal style.

Now if you are familiar with CSS you can change your theme’s CSS file (styles.css). This allows you to have advanced control over display settings. (It’s located under Apearances>Editor in WordPress admin panel).

You can add rules via #related_posts_thumbnails selector to styles.css to change alignment, padding, etc.

For example, to change text alignment you need to add something like this:

#related_posts_thumbnails li {
text-align: center;
}

Hi again, and sorry for being such a drag.

No, the text ant everything else is just perfect. I just want to move the thumbnails to the right. As you can see the first one on the left is into my sidebar, not below the post’s text.

And I’m afraid CSS is far from my qualities. We’re just trying to learn on the way we go with the blog. I turned the plugins’ CSS on, so now they are aligned horizontaly. Still the first on the left is in the sidebar.

Thanks for the support Mary. It means more than I can tell you.

Nina, try to add something like this in your theme’s CSS file:

#related_posts_thumbnails {
padding-left: 160px;
}

I can’t tell you exactly as I can’t see plugin’s output on your blog.

Hi! I’d like to report a bug, there’s an un-escaped character appearing on my site from the plugin.

I am sure it’s from the plugin because when I deactivate it, the un-escaped character doesn’t show anymore.

I’ll be glad if you could take a look.. http://happyinmyhavaianas.com/?p=9

Thanks very much for the plugin its cool!!

Hi ! I’ve just installed this great plug-in on my site :
http://www.oreille-malade.com
But I only get defaut image.

My theme is a WP 2.7 theme.
My pictures are in a “Custom Image Location” (name used in my theme dashboard) so I guess I have to choose “Custom field” (anyway I tried “posts thumbnails” but I always got default image).

For resize I use Timb Thumb, which is located here :
http://www.oreille-malade.com/wp-content/themes/isotherm/isotherm/thumb.php

I hope I made me understand (I’m french, sorry for my poor english)…
Could someone help me ?

Thanks !

Best regards

I think I love this plug-in! I had been trying to make LinkWithin work on my WordPress blog, but after a month I gave up. I happened upon yours and I can already tell it links related posts SO MUCH BETTER! I can’t believe no one on the Twitter #savvyblogging hashtag mentioned it! I can’t get images to come up at all, though, not sure what I’m doing wrong. I have turned on developer mode. Can you help me?

Hi cxian, I couldn’t reproduce this. I opened your URL, and can’t find any strange characters. Please let me know where is it.

Hi Acouphene, I didn’t test it with WP 2.7. This plugin requires 2.9, but I think it should work with Custom Fields in Wp 2.7.

The common problem with Custom Field is that plugin requires the exact name of Custom Field in “Custom Field name” property in plugin setting. Please make sure it is exactly the same that you use for post image URL on Post Edit screen.

If this doesn’t help, please turn on “Developer mode” in plugin settings and let me know.

Hi Angie, thanks, I used LinkWithin first myself, and had some problems with it too, that is why I wrote this plugin and then shared it.

I can see that you are using “Custom Field” as thumbnails source. Do you specify post thumbnail URL in Custom Field on Post Edit screen for each post? You need to enter the name of this Custom field exactly the same in plugin settings. Usually for Thesis theme it is called “thesis_post_image”.

Also, for correct resizing you need to specify “Theme resize URL”, which is for Thesis usually:

http://YOUR_TEMPLATE_URL/lib/scripts/thumb.php

For your blog it will be: http://www.thejammiegirl.com/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/lib/scripts/thumb.php

You can read more information here: http://www.billerickson.net/wordpress-thesis-post-image-featured-thumbnail/

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Hi again !

I’m using the latest version of WP (3.0.1 if I remember correctly). I just wanted to say that my theme was created for WP 2.7 but it uses thumbnails so I think your plug-in should work perfectly.

I can’t find the name of “Custom Field”… I tried several ones but it didn’t work out. I turned on “developper mode” and your help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks a lot !
Best Regards

Acouphene, how do you set post thumbnail on Post Edit screen? Do you use Custom Field or Featured Image block?

hi admin, kindly disregard my concern.. its okay now sorry, its not the plugins fault, its the themes header.php.. Thanks for the your response

It works now… I found the right name for the custom field. My mistake
Thanks a lot for your help !

Hi Maria

Here’s an example of how I would like a Related Posts plugin to work for my site, if I set it to Tag relations only. The top row is what i expect; the bottom row is what I get with your plugin (too many relations).

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_HaBGcdG9DK0/TOAWkb8bItI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/G5nn_iIJU6k/related-plugins.jpg

I would expect the plugin not to consider the categories at all (because my menu bar is already fulfilling that purpose), but rather to show other posts that share at least one tag with the current article. This to suggest to the reader other posts he might like, and that he could have missed (even if the other posts are in a different category).

I hope this helps. I think your plugin is great!

xx Rico

http://elricoshow.com/blog/why-tv-beats-the-movies/

Hi Rico, thanks for explanation and screenshot. I was able to reproduce this problem. This can happen in combination when you select “Categories that will appear in related thumbnails” as not “All”. If you set it as “All” it will work as expected. I am going to fix this and upload new version during this week. Thanks again!

Hi Acouphene,
How did you fixe your problem?
Because, I get exactly the same problem…
I don’t know what I am suppose to put in ‘Custom Field’!
My theme use ‘timthumb.php’ and WP 3.0.1.
Can you help me?

Dimitri

Hi Dimitri,

That was preaty easy I just found the correct name for the custom field. It was “image” for me and not” Image” as it was written in the dashboard. What theme do you use ?

I love this plugin. Quick question about resizing: I use the “set featured image” for all my posts. Was wondering how to resize the thumbnails for the related posts if I don’t use custom fields. Is there a way to edit the plugin code to resize displayed width/depth to 100px X 100px?

Thank you anyway does add old pictures would be super bird

Hi,

I love that the “Generate Post Thumbnails” created thumbnails that then worked and showed up in the “Related Post Thumbnail” plug-in however I do NOT want a small thumbnail to show up in the front of every post in addition to the large image! Right now I have duplicate images at the beginning of every post and have been going in as your suggested and removing these images from the “set featured image” but when I do that then the images don’t show up anymore in the “Related Post” at the bottom! Isn’t there any way to not mess with the images in the post (in other words don’t have the double image problem) and still get the related post thumbnails at the bottom? Please help!

Many Thanks!
Sasha

Hi Walt, you need to update your theme’s functions.php file and add new thumbnail size like this:

add_image_size( ‘related-posts-thumbnails’, 100, 100, true );

Read more here:

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

After that, you need to run plugin “Regenerate thumbnails” – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

After that, you need to update plugin settings and choose ‘related-posts-thumbnails’ as Post-thumbnails name.

Hi Sasha, your theme is using Featured image to display thumbnail near posts. If you want to remove this, you need to update your theme files and remove php tag, that displays post-thumbnail near the content.

Hi Matt, this was fixed in the last version of “related-posts thumbnails”.

Thanks so much Mary! Figured it out and LOVE the plugin! Can’t be more pleased–thanks for the great work and getting back to me so quickly!

Hi, this plugin is amazing but from one day it’s doesn’t display thumbnails anymore, only the default image. How I can do to fix it?
For sure post images exist in the posts.
Look at my url and click on any post if you want to see the problem.
Many thanks.

Alessandro

Hi Alessandro, the possible problem is that your Media settings were changed, but thumbnails were not recreated. If so, I suggest to use “Regenerate Thumbnails” plugin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

hi,
plugin is one of my favorits
see at work:
http://www.springerarchitektur.at/883500architektur-im-radio-a-palaver-im-gesprach-mit-bad-architects-group/

i woundered, if is possible to integrate custom post types into the query,
cause i use custom post types – but related thumbnails doesn’t query tags on the custom post types.. thanks a lot
johann

Thanks for your fast response.
I solved the problem in one minute.
Super nice plugin!
Thanks again.

Alessandro

Hi Johann, I am glad you like it. This plugin is working only with post type ‘post’. You can change plugin code if you want it to work with custom types. Line 84 of current version:
(post_type = ‘post’ OR post_type = ‘custom_type’)

Please note, that plugin new updates will overwrite your changes in code.

Hi-
Is it possible that this plugin works for multi-site installs with sites on different domains? If not, could it be modified to do so? Please don’t hesitate to ping me about it–I’m a great beta tester!

I like your plugin, was playing around and was thinking:
Is there a way to make it display random posts in case there are no relevant posts?

Thanks

Matt

Hi David, this plugin is not working on multisite. I didn’t test it myself, but received complaints about this. I am planning to add this in future versions.

Hi Matt, in plugin settings you need to select “Random” as “Relation based on”.

Thanks Mary
I guess i didn’t give enough details. I would like to use your plugin on 404.php page (for deleted posts) . And currently i am using it in “Category” mode on single.php and since there are no categories in 404.php nothing is shown – so i am trying to figure out what chenge i need to do inside related-posts-thumbnails.php to make it show random posts if there is nothing to relate to.

Thanks & have a great day

Matt

Hi Matt, unfortunately this plugin needs to be related to some post, as it only works inside the Loop, so I am not sure it is possible to put it on 404 page.

Greetings, I know this is probably a dumb question but the thumbnail images are distorted. I’ve got a resizing script (thumb.php) but I don’t know what to do to fix the thumbnails so they are proportional. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Hi Dylan, you need to specify location of thump script in plugin settings “Theme resize URL”. For your website, it’s:
http://paracinema.net/wp-content/themes/dailyedition/thumb.php

Thanks for the quick response. I new it was something fairly simple. However, I entered the url and now there isn’t any image, just the default image.

hey, thanks for this awesome plugin works like charm any idea how to get the same listing for the category page as well?

Hi zerovic, you can use php tag in theme file inside the Loop:

<?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?>

easily the best related posts plugin I have found to date …

I am having problems making the thumbnail show up…..but it will be a setting or what have you ….I know I will be able to figure this out….
wheres your donate button???

How do I make each result smaller so I can fit 4 results in 1 row(150px wide each)

Clive, you need to add new thumbnails size in your theme. Please read more here:
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

this didnt work for me
“If post has no assigned Featured Image, plugin searches for image in post body.”

did not work using an image from the post body…….so I went through and assigned a featured image for each post….now works perfectly except the widget does not display in my sidebar.
thanks again for the excellent plugin!

Hi Steve, I tried to improve this search in the last version of plugin 1.2.9.
Please make sure that your sidebar widgets appear inside WordPress Loop. Also, sometimes, sidebar may be cached with caching plugin.
Thanks for feedback!

Hi Mary,

Nice plugin!

I did run into a problem with displaying the thumbnails, they just wouldn’t show up. I very new to WP and php but I was able to figure out what was wrong.

I have my thumbnails and medium size images set to a Max Height of 0 so that the height isn’t cropped. If I change the height value it will display the image and I believe that was what caused the thumbnails not to display.

Is there a work-around for this or must there be a value set for max height?

BTW: I’m using the 2010-weaver theme if it makes any difference.

Thanks!

love the plug in, but after installing it, the single post pages have an error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function boposts_show() in /home4/choplogi/public_html/gardenfork/wp-content/themes/WpAdvNewspaper/single.php on line 64

example page: http://www.gardenfork.tv/you-cant-have-over-excited-bread-gardenfork-radio

i cleared the cache and then turned off WP Super Cache and the Related Posts plug in, no luck.

thx, eri c

Hi, would you be able top add an option to sort related posts by most recent instead of random. I know you can change it by altering the php but it would be handy not to have to.

HI Craig, I think it is suggested to set maximum size to 9999, if you don’t want to crop it. I think you can add additional size (beside thumbnail and medium) to your theme. Please read here how to add it: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images

Hi Eric, this error is not caused by my plugin. As you can see from error description it is caused by file single.php, located in your WpAdvNewspaper theme folder. If you change your theme, this will go off.

HI CJ, I am planning to add this option on future.

Ok, cool. Thanks for replying and a great plugin.

Hello,i’m using the plugin and it works great but it wont show up any pictures!
Can i somehow confige it to take the first picture in every post and show it in the thumbnail?

Hi Dima, please check this section for possible problems: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems
You need to set Featured Image for each of your post.
If this does not help, please turn on Developer mode in plugin settings

I don’t have the option to set a Featured Image,where is it?

Hi Dima, this feature was introduced in WP 2.9 and it is available if theme supports it.

Thanks for turning on Developer mode. The problem with thumbnails is that your theme does not support this feature, and plugin tries to get post image from post body, but all images are externally hosted.

If you are ok with PHP you can turn on Featured Image feature in your theme and set it for your posts. Please read here more info:
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Or you can use javascript plugins like Outbrain or LinkWithin.

Thanks for the quick reply,is there a plugin that does that?
because i’d rather not touch the PHP code ..
Thanks.

Dima, Outbrain or LinkWithin (just google for them)

I installed Outbrain in my website but i didn’t really get what it does..

Hi, Admin
My WP is 3.01.
I install your plugin.
I set on plugin option:
-Thumbnails source: = Custom field
-Size: = 100×100
-Theme resize url: = http://****.com/wp-content/themes/***pro/includes/timthumb.php

But no thumb appear in related post box.

Hi Phong, please make sure you are using the exact same name of your Custom Field, where you save your post thumbnail on Post Edit screen.

Thanks admin.
It look like great plugin )
http://usmoviereview.com/149/true-grit-2010.html

Thanks you admin…!!!
this wp plugn is nice for post.
is waiting release & update

by 13ex
enjoy

Hey Maria,

What is the shortcode command for Related Post Thumbnails?

I tried [related_posts_thumbnails]

But this did not work.

Can you help please! Great plugin by the way.

Glad you like it, 13ex!

Hi tito, shortcode is
[related-posts-thumbnails]
Thanks!

Thank you Maria for your quick update — the keywords only option work as expected now! xx Rico

Hello!

I cant display more than 3 posts….? im on localhost PHP Version 5.3.1

sorry, is OK; my fault..

thanks for this cool plug-in!

BR

Hi Jennifer, I am glad it’s worked

Hey…just wanted to say overall i LOVE this plugin.
i just wanted to say i have trouble with the custom field. I read through the comments to see if i can figure it out myself.
and yes i have the SAME output for the post, and the “custom thumnail..
here
My WP is 3.01.
Thumbnails source: = Custom field
Custom field name: image (same on my blog)
Size: = 200×200
Theme resize url: = http://www.flashin******.net/members/wp-content/themes/Wpobject/thumb.php

and no thumb appear in related post box.

oh and i forgot to add then when i dont put anythin in the
Theme resize url:
then thumbnails show up finee

hi!

I’m trying to apply your plugin for my webcomic. I’ve set up a default place-holder image (default.png) to use. However, I notice that if a particular comic has 3 related posts, only 2 of the default thumbnail images show up. The last one includes the name of the post, but doesn’t show the default thumbnail. Any advice?

An example of what I’m talking about is here:

http://pcweenies.com/2010/12/15/yet-another-compromising-situation/

Hi Krishna, I just checked the given page and it seems that all thumbnails show up.

Thanks! Does it take a while for all the thumbnails to ‘cache’ and show up? Because when I navigate to other ‘toons I’m seeing the same problem appear. It seems intermittent. I’ve tried clearing the caches with SuperCache already, but that doesn’t seem to fix the problem. Thanks again for your prompt reply!

Hi Sasha, if you enable Developer mode in plugin settings, it will tell in debugging output in HTML what is wrong. You can give me that debugging information to explain the problem.

To clarify the problem a bit more, when I change the
property setting from “block” to “list”, I am seeing broken
thumbnail images that point to:
http://pcweenies.com/2010/11/27/holi-daze/Array You can see the
problem on this page: http://pcweenies.com/2010/11/27/holi-daze/
Thanks!

How can I have my thumbnails centered on my page. Currently they are set to the left. I even tried manually inserting

but the output is the same. Can I change anything in the .php file to center my output?

hi Admin;
first specially thanks for your plug-in.
but a question:

when a post include more than one tag ( tag: a , tag: b , tag: c , and more), is any way to exclude a tag ‘a’ or ‘b’ from related thumbnail?

Hi Wilson, you need to change this in CSS. Select List as Output style in plugin settings and use #related_posts_thumbnails selector to adjust display settings in CSS file.

Hi Iranium, there is no way to exclude special tags, you can only exclude some categories in plugin settings.

hey thanks for the quick reply but what do you mean “enable Developer mode in plugin settings” ive tried to google it to try to figure it out..but clueless!

Hi Sasha, if you go in your WordPress Dashboard, you will see Related Posts Thumbs menu. This is where you can change plugin settings. There you can set a check mark near “Developer mode” option and save settings.

FELICIATCIONES !!!!! TIP ONE: YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO CHANGE
THE SIZE OF THE CUSTOM FIELD WITHOUT BEING MINIATURES

Hi Krishna, the possible problem is that the name of custom field, where you store thumbnail contains array instead of image URL

Hi Sasha, love the plug-in, well done. I’ve noticed what appears to be some odd behavior in Firefox 3.5.14 (mac) where the posts randomly (apparently at least) break the layout. Looking at the HTML it appears there are times where the DIV is not wrapped by the causing it to degrade. Everything is fine in Safari.

Here is an example made up of screenshots.: http://keepitchic.com/images/relatedPostsFirefox.jpg – The debugging mode doesn’t provide any clues. Any ideas?

Sorry I meant Mary

Hi Michael, in plugin settings please change Output style as List, this should fix this

Thanks Mary that does the trick. Completely misread the ‘List’ style and went right to the block. Great Plug-in, but even better support! Happy new year!

Excellent plug-in. Just enabled it at my site using custom field and it works like a charm. Thank you !

Glad you like it skykid!

Awesome plugin!

Suggestions:

1. be able to determine padding/margin of the blocks

2. be able to choose: show only posts from the last “x” months (not date based) and only for news category, for example.

3. Related “pages” would be awesome too.

Hi Marcelo, thanks for these suggestions! Some of them can be solved in some way now.
You can use your own CSS to change padding and etc. You need to select Output style as List and use #related_posts_thumbnails selector.
Changing “Include only posts after” parameter can limit displayed posts by time, although it is not dynamic. You can change parameters “Categories on which related thumbnails will appear” and “Categories that will appear in related thumbnails” to your News category.
I also received requests about Pages, but the problem with pages is that you don’t store Tags and Categories for pages, so it’s hard to find relationships fast using WordPress taxonomy.

Hey all, I think this plugin would be perfect for my website, but I can’s install it because I have wordpress 2.7.1 . Are there older versions of the plugin that I can install on my wordpress?

THANKS!!!

Mary – will this work for RECENT posts as well?

Michael, yes for all posts

but to display in chronological order? – for instance, if I wanted to deploy to my homepage and feature the last 3-6 posts in the block. Is that a setting already that I’m not seeing or some subtle change in the functions?

thx

Hi Michael, this plugin does not display in chronological order, only random. And it has to be related to some post. It won’t work just on homepage without any relationships.

OK thanks – then it’s a recommendation!

Hey there, awesome addon first of all!

I’ve got 2 issues:

1. When i select a default image (.jpg), it just shows as blanc rather than that picture. I’ve used it on 2 of my blogs and both have the same problem it seems.

2. I use 600x150px headers for most of my posts, when it uses this as thumbnail it just shows the middle part of it. Is there a way to create a thumbnail in the post, which isnt seen by anyone, but IS used in this addon rather than the 600×150 one?

I’d appreciate your your help

Dave

Hi Dave,

1) If the URL given in default image attribute is working, it should be shown in plugin, as it just puts it straight in to the HTML. Please make sure that you are using absolute URL, that is working by itself in browser.

2) I suggest you to add new size specifically for thumbnails, say 100x100px or less. Plugin is using WordPress feature “Post thumbnails”, you can add new sizes in your theme. Please read here how to do this http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Mary,

I made a few changes to related-posts-thumbnails that allow for easier use of custom CSS. Small changes, but they make a big difference in styling.

An example of it in use at this site: http://www.newhiker.com/hiking/p26

Let me know if you’d like the code change emailed to you.

If you’re still working on it, I have one suggestion/feature request. In some cases you may not have enough posts to fill the amount of thumbnail spots specified in settings. If I specify 6 posts, but only have two that match the criteria, I’m going to have four empty spots. Why not give the option to fill the remaining with random posts?

Cheers – and thanks for an excellent plugin.

Hi Jake, the default plugin’s CSS can be turned off completely and user can use their own CSS to design output as needed. You need to select Output styles as List, and this will allow to use your own CSS in theme file without changing plugin code.

This is very good suggestion, however, it has a drawback, as this can overload plugin with additional database requests. I need to check how this feature is important to other users before performing it.

re: CSS, what I did was change the format to this so each element could be easily styled with CSS:

Title

Your plugin outputs it like this (which doesn’t let you target each element separately)

Title

Looks like the markup didn’t come through…

Here it is in more detail: http://pastebin.com/Abd2vKng

My small changes are highlighted.

My change if I need to use the excerpts as well, would be to wrap the excerpt and title like this:

title excerpt

Hi Jake, this is nice idea, I’ll add this in future release.

hey Mary,

I dont know if this has been asked before but I see the thumbnails before and after the post. Is it possible to get rid of the thumbnails after the post.

heres the screenprint: http://www.shadowgraphicals.com/eugeenherman.png

an amazing plugin though. thanks!

Tom

Hi Tom, this is not a supposed behavior. I suggest you to turn off “Automatically append to the post content” in plugin settings and manually call plugin in your theme files. Use plugin’s tag < ?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> to show thumbnails in your theme’s single.php before the_content(); if you want them only before post.

Hi, this plugin working good, but I have a problem.
I have check Cat A, Cat B, Cat C but when I’ll go to a post on Cat A I’ll see relative of Cat A, B and C.

Is it possible to show relative post only from the same category but I have to do it for 6 or 7 category.

Sorry for my english, happy new year and thank’s for your help.
Fred

Mary,

Thanks for the beautiful plugin! It works exactly as you described. I looked several days for a good plugin before finding your work.

hey Mary,

that worked. Thanks.

another question. Is there any possibility to have all the category thumbnails on one line to scroll trough. I got sometimes over 50 thumbnails and it would look great. Is that a big question?

T

Thanks for the feedback, Robert!

Hi Tom, this is not a part of plugin, you can use your own CSS rules to do that. You need to select Output style as List in plugin settings, and you can use $related_posts_thumbnails selector in your theme’s CSS to design as you like.

Hi Fred, make sure you set “Relation based on” as “Categories” only in plugin settings, cause it is possible that posts from different categories share the same tags.

Hi Mary, thank you, in fact my problem is not with the tag, it’s sub category !! Sorry that’s not the same problem will it working only with sub category ?
Thank’s fred

You can show what it’s exactly here: http://www.traces-medias.com/wordpress/print/identite-visuelle/meloz-logo/

In this post, we show many related in “Identité visuelle” and 1 “Meloz” (same category).

On WordPress I haven’t check “Identité visuelle” but It’s sharing !
Thank’s Fred

Hi Fred, yes it’s working with all types of categories, including all subcategories on all levels.

Fred,

First, you need to select “Relation based on” as “Categories”.

Second, you need to set both “Categories on which related thumbnails will appear” and “Categories that will appear in related thumbnails” as you need.

Mary,
I’ve tried this, I’ve check only “Meloz” and “Club des dirigeants” based on “category” but it also show other post.

There is my structure:

Art 1: category “meloz” & “identité visuelle”
Art 2: category “meloz” & “Edition”

Art 3: category “club des …” & “identité visuelle”
Art 4: category “club des …” & “Edition”

When I’m in art 1 it show :Art 2: category “meloz” & “Edition”
but it also show Art 3: category “club des …” & “identité visuelle”
I’ll be crazy !! sorry and thank’s for your help
NB: I haven’t check “Edition” & “identité visuelle”

Bonjour,
J’ai activé votre plugins mais mes thumbnails sont géré par NextGen Gallery.
Elle ne s’affiche pas.
Merci de votre aide.

JL

Hello,
First I would like to say that this plugin is a great work!
now, I am having a problem displaying thumbnails. I tried using featured image it kind of worked but it screwed up my site, so at the end this didnt work. then i dont have a custom field with a thumbnail.
Now i dont know what to do : (
There is any way to tell the plugin to grab the first image of the post, resize it, and use it as thumbnail? or there is another plugin to create a custom field for all my posts, where i can also assign an image?

thank for the help in advanced!

Mary – is there an way to include the date posted within the related post data displayed? That would be nice to have

Hi Pit, if you selected “Post thumbnails” as Thumbnails source, and your post does not have Featured Image assigned, this plugin takes the first image in the post and gets its thumbnail sized version. The first picture should be stored on the same server for this to work.

Hi Michael, no way to do this from plugin settings unfortunately, only if you can edit plugin PHP code to add posts dates.

Hey thanks for the reply, I actually I fist tired to do the thumbnail and the images were not coming up. I tired one more time and i gave some time and later the images starting to pop up, so i think that this is how it works at first right?
One thing I would like to do is that i have my thumbnails of 150 x 150 pixels, there is any way to customize the image to only show part of it like 140 x 70 and hide the rest (avoiding cropping)?

Thanks again!

Hi Pit, thumbnail size can be changed in your WordPress “Media” tab, you’ll have to run plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ after changes.

Hello! I’m running thesis and can’t figure out how to get thumbnails to appear and move text up from overlapping my author box?

Hi Chavon, if plugin styles conflict with your theme you can try change “Output style” as “List”, or “turn of plugin CSS” completely and use your own CSS.

Hi Mary, thank you for a brilliant plugin. It works like a charm… except that the excerpt somehow manages to capture and display a piece of code (close caption) for any image that has a caption attached to it.

Example:

This is the Post Title
[/caption] This is the excerpt of the post. Sed ultrices. Vulputate urna in, ea sed penatibus. Tellu…

I can’t figure out if this is a fault of WP, my theme (WooThemes) or the plugin.

Hi Mark, thanks for pointing to this. I didn’t thought about that, those tags should be stripped too. I’ll add a fix in future version.

Hi, i love your plugin, very usefullm nice work! but hey,
im with a little trouble, i guess if u can help me, please! i put
the where i want, in my theme (infopanel.php). It works very well
when visualizing just one post. But at my home
(raomdesign.com.br/posts) the area where the thumbs are suposed to
appear is blank. Is the same pho who feed it and also the title
“Related” is appearing like the single visualization. This is a
limitation, a but or i did something wrong? Can u tell me a way to
the related thumbs appear in my home page just like in my single
posts? Thank you!

I love the plugin, but I need to be able to exclude a
category from being considered. Lets say I have a story in global
category of NEWS, and also in one called LOCAL. (which is a sub
category of NEWS) I only want LOCAL to be considered when showing
related thumbs.. So if I could exclude NEWS then my related thumbs
are much more relevant to the readers prior choice.

Hi Mary, I really like your plugin and I’d like to use it but no luck so far….
I have tried everything u said above, played with the options but couldn’t make it work… This is what I get:
1. using the plugin php tag in the theme (loop and single.php) -> nothing happens
2. After awitching on “Automatically append to the post content:” it works, but I get the following mistakes in the beginning of the post:

Notice: Undefined property: RelatedPostsThumbnails::$poststhname in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 74

Notice: Undefined variable: height in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 201

Notice: Undefined variable: width in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 203

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 260

Notice: Undefined variable: fontface in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 326

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 260

Notice: Undefined variable: fontface in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 326

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 260

Notice: Undefined variable: fontface in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 326

Same thing with the widget… and on the administrators page i get this:

Notice: Undefined index: onlywiththumbs in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 400

Notice: Undefined index: relpoststh_auto in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 403

Notice: Undefined index: relpoststh_devmode in /home/nakadei/public_html/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 427

I don’t get it…

Hi Dave, have you tried selecting all categories except news and local in plugin settings?

Hi Raom, if you are using PHP tag of plugin in your theme, please make sure, it appears inside the Loop on the home page (please check wordpress docs). Have you tried plugin settings for this? Selecting automatic appending and removing a checkbox near Single posts only.

Hi, I am having a problem. My thumbnails do not show up, I have tried everything that you have wrote including the 3 plugins. Also edited my functions.php file to enable support for thumbs on my theme, but no luck

I have enabled the html debug mode, so if you can please help me out?

Hi Staz, sure, let me know the URL or when the site is up.

Hi Trayana, your PHP is configured in a way that it displays all notices. These are not some warnings or errors. Core WordPress by itself shows some notices, that’s why I always turn off notices from output in browser with WordPress and on live webserver, as it is not a secure configuration to output PHP notices on website. Anyway, I’ll try to omit all notices, that may be generated by my plugin in future version.

My site is back up.

Thank you Mary, but where can i turn it off

Hello,

Question: I used regenerate thumbnails plugin to do just that, now 99.9% of my post have thumbnail, the question is: It is normal for some images not to show in the related post with thumbnails plugin? if it takes time, there is a reason?

Thanks

Hey Mary – I don’t know how you do it. What’s more impressive than the plug-in is your attention to the comments! So of course the pattern on the board is to follow up compliments with questions

The plugin is working great – I am having a problem figuring out how to feature thumbs when using an external gallery like NextGEN (and others) that store thumbs & images in a completely separate directory. I recall some of your comments about using the custom fields but I think that was more for templates that don’t support thumbs. So, does your code support pointing a reference to an individual post’s thumbnail?

Hope that makes sense. Thanks!

Trayana, you should ask webserver administrator to do this.

Hi Pit, if your post has a thumbnail it should be displayed as thumbnail, there is no time required.

Staz, I can’t see plugin output on page, even debugging info. Are you using plugin tag < ?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> ?

Make sure that you put it inside WordPress Loop http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

I can see that you are trying to output it way after comments, this won’t work, it should be right after content.

Hi Michael, if your post has assigned Featured Image, it should take it, no matter where it is stored on server.

I already used regenerate thumbnails plugin, there is anything else i can do to troubleshoot this problem? because most of the posts are showing images, and others dont.

thanks

And my thumbnails exist in the /uploads folder with an ending of -150×150.jpg

Pit, you can turn on “Developer mode” in plugin settings to see debugging info in HTML source or show it to me.

Hi, I recently installed your plugin and I’m loving it! Much better than others out there. The only problem I’m having is my thumbnails are not centering on the page. I’ve googled all around for a solution and I just can’t seem to fix it :/ I even tried switching to list view and turning off styles, but my CSS skills are not all there. I am looking to keep the block format, but simply center the table or add a left margin. Here is a post example:

http://www.kitchenkonfidence.com/2011/01/green-apple-and-sparkling-cider-sorbet/

Is anyone able to help me out?

Thank you.

Hi Brandon, I think that the easiest way without messing with CSS a lot would be to wrap plugin output in div with margin styles.

1) Turn off “Automatic appending to the post content” in plugin settings.
2) In your theme editor select single.php file. I suggest you to backup its content before editing in case of problems.
3) Right before <div class=”entry-utility”> tag insert plugin tag with wrapper:

<div style=”padding: 0 30px”>
<?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?>
</div>

I hope, this will help.

Wow… worked like a charm. Thank you so much for the amazing customer service. Seriously. Keep up the good job!

Brandon

Hi and thanks for your wonderful plugin.

I wonder if i could show only the most recent articles from the catagory of the article. i saw your select query code of the plugin, and seems impossible to alter anything there…. Any suggestions?

thanks in advance

Ok, turned on “Developer mode”, now where should i go to check the debugging code.

Thanks,

Michael, check the option “Include only posts after” in plugin settings.

Hi Pit, debugging info can be found in HTML source. I checked your website. It says, that you have post-thumbnails feature, but posts do not have assigned “Featured Image”. You need to set it for every post.

If the post has not assigned “Featured Image” plugin takes the first image in thumbnail version, but not all your first images have thumbnail versions. For example this post
http://pureinfotech.com/2010/07/15/tip-speed-up-google-chrome-page-loading-in-windows/
has the first image, that does not have thumbnail version http://pureinfotech.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/goole-chrome-150×150.png – no such image.

So, if you want this to work, you need to assign Featured Image like here:

http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/featured-image.jpg

First thank you for checking out!

Oh, I understand now. It was strange because I knew that all the post had a first image. Also I know that you were say about the featured image, I tired but some how when i did that with the plugin that automatically assigns the feature image to the post, it screwed up other plugins that I have installed, and that scared me because I have to spent hours post by post fixing it.

There is any way that in the future mixed version of the first thumbnail will be supported or at least to show the default image? or there is any way to tell the plugin to take the first image no matter the sizes?

Thanks for your help, keep up the great work!

Hi Pit, I don’t want to take the first image as it is, if it does not have thumbnail version, because it can have different size and be displayed incorrectly. Have you tried to assign Featured Image manually for posts without images on Post Edit screen?

Yes that was my next move, but because i want to be consistent in the size resolution, I wanted to use the thumbnail instead of the full image, and apparently you cannot do that. So now i am just looking around the web trying to find something that let me use the the thumbnail image instead of the full image.
Any ideas how to accomplish that would be great : )

Thanks for taking the time!

Question: Is there a way that you could add a function that allows you to remove tags that you don’t want in the related posts list? Please confirm

So if we cannot use a different size images, can we use a default image for those posts that post-thumbnail are smaller?

Thanks

Henno, I am planning to add this in future.

Pit, you can try to upload images with “-150×150″ where plugin is trying to get it.

About “Featured Image” please read here:

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

My plugin does not check the size of the image and it does not check if the image exists. It takes image as it is. Every check for image size and existence for each thumbnail requires to perform server request to that image and waiting to get response. This means 3 additional server requests for each page load, this slowed plugin performance and was removed in one of the previous versions. Now it is completely user responsibility to provide correct image for each post via “Featured Image”.

There are also javascript alternatives like LinkWithin and Outbrain, you can try them and find what fits best your configuration.

Great job with the plugin, can please tell me how to get rid of the divider bar.

The lines that sit between and at the end of the thumbnails.

Thank you so much.

Cheers,
Aron

Aron, you can try to change border color, or use your own CSS, if you select Output style as List.

One suggestion for future release:
News only able to place close dates, ie the option: Include only those messages later: to choose
1 – a week ago
2 – last month
3 – two months ago
4 – always
————————————————– ———————————–

Okay the option of taking the thumbnail size directly from WordPress but it would be better if we have a box where you can change it.

thanks.

Thanks for the quick response, I actually just changed the border to 0.

luchosar, WordPress thumbnails size can be changed on WordPress Media page.

hi,
i am using qtranslate plugin to provide a multilanguage site (DE/EN),
so i get on the related posts the title twice (de and en) – an idea for a solution?
(love the pluging, so don’t want miss it..)
example:
(in english with rrelate posts – but titles under postthumgs twice..):
http://www.springerarchitektur.at/en/4036-big-bjarke-ingels-group-8-house-in-kopenhagen-urbane-gemeinschaft-architektur-aktuell/

Hey,

i love the plugin. i just have one problem. with my site i do not have a php file for resizing the images. and i’m trying to use a custom field called “screen”. which is set like this in my index. <img src="” width=”250″ height=”200″ alt=”" />. if you could help it would be fantastic.

The related posts plugin works excellent in the post area, but when I added the widget to my sidebar, only display title, cannot display entries.

Hi Jessica, if your theme does not have such script you can add it to your blog yourself. The most popular is called Timthumb

http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/

You can download the source code file, put it on your website theme folder and set the link to it in plugin settings. This is the basics, you can find more tutorials how to set it up in your WordPress

http://c.hadcoleman.com/2008/06/adding-timthumb-to-your-wordpress-theme/

Hi C.H, there are may be different reasons, why it does not work in your sidebar properly. First, sidebar should be inside the Loop. Sometimes it may appear not inside the Loop in some themes.

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

There are also may be conflicts with sidebar CSS. Try using “Output style” as List in plugin settings or turning off plugin CSS completely and using your own styles.

And there are may be not correct work with caching or other plugins.

Hi Johann, I am sorry, I analyzed plugin qtranslate, and can’t find a way how to make my plugin work with it. My plugin displays other posts titles on single post page, and I didn’t find any affected hooks in qtranslate that modify titles of other posts, except title of current post.

Hi Mary this is a great plug-in and does EXACTLY what i want except for one very minor issue. I have the WP tweet button and Facebook like button below each post. They sit quite neatly together.

But when I install this plug-in, the Facebook button sits on top of it and the Twitter one sits below it. Is there anyway I can keep the Twitter one also above the related posts?

Hi Milo, try “Output style” as List in plugin settings, if this does not help, you can turn off plugin CSS and use your own styles.

I am so sure that I am doing something wrong, but I downloaded this via the Add New Plugin for my blog, activated it, and NOTHING shows up at the end of my posts. HELP?

Hi,

After upgrading, the plugin runs randomly. I do real estate listing site. How do I show only thumbnails that come from same category?

Please look at my site here.
http://bangkokhomecondo.com/1022/condo-bangkok-rent-noble-thong-lo-20

Noble-Thong-Lo-20 is a category name. I want only thumbnail that has this name shown-up.

How do I do it? I already enable Developer mode.

Thank you in advance,
David

I have in my blog this plugin “simple-post-thumbnails”
But dont thumbnails in related posts. Why?

Hi! I have a question… is it possible not to show thumbnails in some pages of your choice?

Hi,

is it possible to set the post_thumbnail size somewhere to 100×100. I was using auto generator for the post thumbnails and they are to big for me.

Thanks Thomas

Hi Thomas,
You can do one of the following:
- Change your thumbnails size in Media settings of WordPress and then use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
- Or add completely new size http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Hi Carlos, you can limit pages by categories and select categories on which to show thumbnails in plugin settings.

Hi Rodrigo, “simple-post-thumbnails” is not my plugin, my plugin is “related-posts-thumbnails”.

Hi David, it seems that all these related posts are belong to the same parent category “condo-bedroom”, that is why they are shown.

Hi Lacey, if there are no many posts in your blog, then probably plugin can’t find related posts with the same category. Anyway, it should work with correct theme. If you have some specific theme, then probably PHP solution is not right for your blog, and you can check Javascript external plugins like Linkwithin and Outbrain (you can google them).

Hi Mary!
Your Plugin is fantastic!
Thanks a lot for Your gentle advises!

Thank you…

I have over 230 posts, so I think there should be enough. And I have a ProPhoto theme. Do you know if it doesn’t work with those? I have tried LinkWithin with no success either, which is why I thought the one specifically for WordPress blogs would work. I’ll try Outbrain.

Thanks again and any help is welcome!

First off, gotta say I love the plug in. I love how I can choose to not show articles without a featured image. However, at the bottom of all my articles, it’s aligned to the left. I’d like to add another image to fill in the white space, or center them so it looks cleaner.

Thanks in advance,
Racheal

I love the idea of this plugin, but half or more of my pictures don’t show up… what can be done?

Thanks so much,
Angela

Hi Racheal,
You can set Number of similar posts to display: 5. You can also select Output style as List and turn off plugin CSS and use your own styling.

Hi Angela, do all your posts have assigned post thumbnails? You need to set it for all posts. Check out this link
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

I’ve tried changing the number to 5, but it puts the 5th thumbnail below the others. I also don’t want mine as a list. Is there something I can insert into the coding to either make the thumbnails smaller so I can squeeze a 5th in, or center them how they are?

You can view what it looks like here: http://behindthethrills.com/2011/01/trapped-chilean-miners-embrace-new-magic-memories-at-walt-disney-world/

Thanks so much for your reply – your link led me to the Generate Thumbnails app and now everything works just fine! Thanks so much

Racheal, if you use “thumbnail” as “Thumbnail size” in plugin settings, you can change it in Media settings of your WordPress and run http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

Or you can add new size, read here for more info
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Hello,

my question is what code can i add to
to request a different number of displaying posts?

I am displaying in one section of my blog related posts and in here i can fit 4 posts (and this is what is set in the setting Number of similar posts to display:), but know i want to call the function manually in another location and add 5 post to display. how can i do this?

thanks

Hi Pit, there is no paramaters that you can pass to function to control this. The only thing is in plugin’s settings and it changes behavior for all thumbnails.

I was originally having some problems with overlapping (your suggestion to use ‘list’ solved that. Thanks a lot.). However, now the text below the thumbnails is justifying (gets pretty ugly sometimes). Is there any way to fix this?

Hello,
sorry to come back with the same question I posted here http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/comment-page-6/#comment-658 but I discovered I did not manage to make it works.
For the moment I have modified the plugin in line 289

if ( empty( $basic_url ) ) { // parsed URL is empty or no file if can check
				$debug .= 'Image is empty or no file. Using default image;';
if ( is_user_not_logged_in()) {
			$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thetheme/images/non-member.png';}
				else {$url = get_option( 'relpoststh_default_image', $this->default_image );}
			}

Maybe it’s not at the right place…

Hi Li-An, probably plugin changed after that. I think you need to put your code outside empty($basic_url) condition or it only occurs if the post has no image. Try may be right after the line:
$debug .= ‘Image URL: ‘.$url.’;'; (287 current)

Hi Dee, this can be fixed in your theme CSS. If plugin styles conflict with your theme, you can turn off plugin CSS completely and use your own styles.

Hello,Sorry for asking again,but i didn’t understand how can i add thumbnails to every post?

Hi Dima, check screenshot here: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Hello.
After installing the plugin, I tourned off the plugin styles and I wanted to make a horisontal display, I used youre code CSS but I have a thumbnail and then an article, an thumbnail and an article, and so on, all that on the vertical lign.
How can I display on my Home page only the thumbnails horisontaly?

Thank you for your help !

I can’t get the plugin to work at all! I’ve tried the regenerate thumbnails. Still not even up on the blog. Please help!

Thank you for the tip but it does not work exactly as I want If I change as you say, all the thumbnails are changed for non member. I want to put a default image only for the posts non visible to the non members (so I have to look if the post is for member or non member)… Ouch, I just realized it would be impossible for the plugin to test this kind of stuff ?

Chantal, please check http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Michael, may be this CSS does not work for your theme and you should try other settings.

Li-An, yeah, this thing depends on post property. If that other plugin provides such information based on post ID, you can add condition in your code by passing $post->ID to it.

Maybe, but I don’t understand why the articles still appear mixed with the thumbnails ! I want just the thumbnails on my Home Page.
After that it’s easy with the CSS.
Anyone has an idea ?

Thks

I see (well, I try to see )
I’ve found a function what may could fit

function is_post_protected_by_s2member ($post_id = FALSE, $check_user = FALSE)

I’m not sure I will understand how to use it but the most important is WHERE to put it

Hi.
You were wright. It’s all about CSS.
I’m trying your CSS but doesn’t work.
Any idea ?
http://avidart13.com/Project/merrespect2/

Li-An, try the same place where you put previous code.

if ( is_post_protected_by_s2member ($post->ID) && is_user_not_logged_in() ) {
 // $url = 'non_member';
}

If else, it will act by default.

Michael, in plugin settings try to turn off plugin CSS. You need to select “Output style” as “List” first. It should display thumbnails as simple list (by default it is vertical, if it’s not set other way in your theme styles). Then you can use selector #related_posts_thumbnails to adjust CSS settings in your theme styles.css file.

I chose “list” and turned off the plugin style and then added this code to my css: .related-posts-thumbnails img {background:#FF1493; border:1px solid #000; padding:4px; margin: 7px;} but the list style remains. The thumnail boder and color styling is correct but how to I get it to show in block style again?

Thank you

Maria,

I can’t seem to get your (wonderful) Related Posts plugin to show on my Custom Post Type posts. Even custom post types that I have assigned “regular” post categories to thinking your plugin just needed to see categories attached to them.

Am I doing something wrong or will it not work (yet) with C.P.T’s?

Curtis

Hi Curtis, yes this plugin does not work with custom post types.

Maria,

Thanks for the reply. Is there a chance you are going to add support for Custom Post Types? They seem to be a be gaining a lot of use now that CPT’ support is built into the WordPress core.

Thanks, Curtis

Hi again

If anyone who is showing their images block style with their own css can share the code they used I would be most appreciative

Curtis, I checked how custom post types are designed in WP, custom post types may support custom taxonomies. This plugin is build around tags and categories. This requires completely rewriting plugin’s functionality and interface may become more complicated. Anyway, if this will be in high demand by users I’ll try my best to do this.

It works ! It works ! Thank you a lot

Hi.
Thank you.
I’m still having a problem with the thumbnails generated, because they change their place each time I refresh my page.
Do you have an idea why ?
I deleted all the articles I added 6 others but the thumbnails change thier place each time .
Thks

My very first post is stickied to the top of my site. I don’t want it to have a related post thumbnail since it is supposed to be an introduction and not a post. The plugin just recently added one thumbnail underneath and it looks dumb. How can I disable it on this post only?

Hi Lilchez1, you can use plugin tag instead of automatic appending. You can use it in your theme under the post with condition if post is not sticky http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_sticky

Michael, try using php tag to control your display instead of automatic appending. Use output style as List and turn off plugin CSS to control your display completely.

hi there,

First off thank you very much for the plugin! Its nice and simple which is exactly what I am looking for.

I have a quick question for you: I have gone through the related-posts-thumbnails.php file and have not been able to find what I am looking for so I’m hoping you can help me out.

I am using List style with styles turned off (using my own CSS for this). As it stands now, the image, post name AND excerpt are all wrapped in tags. I would like to have only the image and title as anchors, and the text as normal text.

Thanks again

Categories on which related thumbnails will appear. In this parameter you can set on posts from which categories related posts thumbnails will be displayed. Default value is “All”.
Categories that will appear in related thumbnails. In this parameter you can specify what categories should be shown among related posts thumbnails. Default value is “All”.

Can you explain me with example? I am confused in this.

Hi Adam, title and excerpt are wrapped around ‘a’ tags at lines 316 – 319, you can remove it there.

Hi Chetan,

Categories on which related thumbnails will appear. Say if you have not selected category “Sample”, then posts from this category will not have related posts displayed at all.
Categories that will appear in related thumbnails. Posts from category “Sample” will not appear in related posts section.

Hello Maria,

First of all, thank you very much for your great plugin.

Sorry for disturbing, but I can’t figure out why thumbs don’t appear on my new site http://photo-help.com/ – example – http://photo-help.com/pro-professional-reviews/cameras/leica-camera/leica-m9-digital-camera-review-video/

I use the same theme and plugin on different project and everything works perfect – http://domains-for-sale.org/records/most-expensive-domains-names/expensive-domains/

All plugin settings are the same.

Can you help with advice?

Best Regards,
Igor.

Hi Igor, do posts from new blog have assigned Featured Image? Check out this section for possible problems http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Hi Maria,

Thank you very much for your advice. After few manipulations everything started to work.

One little question, please:
Now in every thumbs is a big empty space between a picture and a title – http://photo-help.com/pro-professional-reviews/cameras/leica-camera/leica-m9-shutter-sound-video-compared-leica-m8-2/ it seems as images slightly compressed

Here is a link from my previous post – http://domains-for-sale.org/records/most-expensive-domains-names/expensive-domains/ – and here all titles right below an image.

Is it Regenerate Thumbnails plugin “issue”? And can anything be done here?

Thank you for your time!

Igor.

Hi Mary

I want to thank you for your great work.

I have a problem that you can help…(Hopefully …)

I am coding delimedya.com and i want to use “Related Posts Thumbnails” plugin especially for its great speed.

When i enable the plugin, at the end of every post (before comments) “related posts” appears. But i want to see related posts only in sidebar and after the comments.

I handle the comments part and sidebar part. But i cant accomplish to get rid of related articles after each post.

How can i publish “Related Posts Thumbnails” only in sidebar.

Thanks for your help

Hi Fatih, you can use plugin tag related_posts_thumbnails(); in your theme files to put it anywhere, instead of automatic appending to post content.

Hi Igor, you can select “Output style” and change css settings in your styles.css. You can turn off plugin CSS completely to have more control.

Hello, and thank you for a AWESOME plugin.
I just have one question – and I’ve searched all over internet for this one…

How do I exclude a certain tag from the query handled by the plugin?

Hi! Great plugin, it works fantastic. But right now the div is left aligned, and I would prefer it centered under the entry content. I’ve tried inserting the single line code into my single.php with center tags, but it didn’t work. Is there perhaps some line of CSS I could insert into my style.css that would align the div to the center of the entry content? Thanks.

So basically how do I get rid of your plug-in, as it won’t deactivate & it’s now created problems with the styling of my entire website. Thanks…

Hi Andreas, you can only exclude certain categories, not tags.

Hi Dan, putting plugin PHP tag inside centered div is the easiest way. Make sure, this tag appears inside wordpress loop, like right after the content. The other way would be turning off plugin CSS styles in plugin interface via Output style and use your own styles to redesign completely.

Hi Monica, you can go to your WordPress “Plugins” page and click on “Uninstall” link near “Related Posts Thumnails” plugin, the same way you remove any other plugin.

Hi Mary, Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working that way. All the problems still remain after I deactivate and Delete it. My background is still gone after I do it, all my borders are gone, your plug in changed all of my fonts to a different font, ie to arial, and now that won’t go away either.

I’d really appreciate a response on how to fix this, as your plugin has created multiple issues for me. Thanks…

Hi Monica, this plugin does not change anything in your WordPress, it adds some functionality and if you remove it, all its effects are gone. It only adds some html code with INLINE styles, and removing plugin removes this block. This is true and I tell you this as experienced web developer, your issues are caused by something else.

@Monica, she’s right, the plugin cannot possibly cause this on its own, it would be a conflict between the css of your theme and the default of the plugin, both trying to use the same style classes. Deleting the plugin complete should have allowed the style.css to work as it did before. Go to your theme editor, view style.css and make sure you didn’t accidentally delete some or all of the contents at some earlier point. If you did, just upload the style.css from the theme backup on your computer. If the CSS is still there, then deactivate wp-super-cache briefly (if you are using it), dump the cache on your browser, close your browser and reboot your computer, and view it again. Hope that helps.

@Maria I was able to get the related posts row and images to appear with the inline code (div style=”margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:97%;”)(?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?)(/div) — replacing parenthesis with bracket, of course but the header does not display, so above it I had to insert (h3 style=”margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:97%;font-size:16px;”)Related Posts:(/h3) — again replacing parentheses with brackets. I recommend including this example in the display section above, since I’ve now seen a lot of people ask the same question over and over.

Also, I recommend changing the sample CSS in the Display section above, as the sample you have there does not style the row exactly like the default display. I and others would probably appreciate it if your sample CSS styled it the exact same way as the Automatically Append function, and then we could change the colors and such to our liking. I think part of the problem is the sample CSS above is too simple, and people really don’t want to rewrite the entire CSS just to get the display back to what it normally looks like by default (which is much nicer).

Please understand I mean this in the spirit of being helpful, and I think this will curtain a lot of comments and complaints you get here.

And I appreciate the help!

Thank you very much for the plugin. It works great.
Just a question:
The relation is set to Category.
Is it possible, on the widget, to display the category name?

Hi Dan, thanks a lot for your help That’s right, centering plugin on page is common question, I should add this to manual. Thanks!

Hi Luca, not through interface. You need to edit plugin code for that and call category after title output, probably on line 328.

Thanks for your help Mary.
It works great

How can i edit the size of thumbnail?

Rakesh, take a look at section “Changing thumbnail size”, I added menu list for navigation on this page.

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[...] Related Posts Thumbnails Dieses Plugin nutze ich für die Anzeige meiner „ähnlichen Artikel“ unter den Beiträgen. Die Thumbnail funktion nutze ich dabei noch nicht, weil ich vor dem Footer bereits eine Anzeige der beliebtesten Artikel habe, die ich persönlich schöner finde. Wie man eine solche Anzeige erstellt, habe ich in diesem Tutorial beschrieben. [...]

Hi, i can’t get this plugin to align to center, my team doesn’t show related posts if i put the code in the loop.

Hi Mary,
I have a display issue with your pluggin… I don’t understand why. (FYI : I’m using the Atahualpa theme in WP 3.0.4)
I let you see : http://nsa25.casimages.com/img/2011/03/09/110309045937477287.jpg and the wird part is that it’s completly random. In some case it’s on the 1st post, i refresh and it’s gone but reapper in another one..
Can you help me with that ?
Thank you !
Mag

I must be blind but I cannot find how to choose “Output style” ???

OK, I did find it: choose “List” and delete everything in CSS option. I’m right ? It’s a little unatural.

Hi Paul, I don’t know why the tag is not working, it should work if placed right after content output. You can try Output style as List and turn off plugin CSS completely and use your own styles.

Hi Mag, there is probably conflict with your theme styles. You can try Output style as List in plugin settings. If this does not work, you can turn off plugin css completely and use your own.

Hi Li-An, yes turning off plugin CSS works only with Output style “List”, that is why it becomes available only after you selected “List”.

Hi Mary,
Thank you for your answer. I’ve tried to put the plugin in list and copy your code in my style.css.. But i understand after that your code is for a list display.. can you help me with the code for the same display as block ?
Thanks

Hi Mary,
If my images have a caption, the plugin outputs [/caption] at the beginning of the excerpt. If you are fast you can see it here: http://www.ribbingeback.se/?p=268 but I will probably disable it soon if I don’t find a solution.
Hope you can help me

Hi,
thanks for your plugin related posts thumbs. I’ve two questions. The first is if it’s possible to change the size of the blocks “height and width” to adjust with my template layout. The second one is if it’s possible to show in the list of related post an adsense code like a results and if yes how I can do it. Thanks for you help. Best regards

Tiziana

Hi Maggot, block style consists of many nested blocks with inline styles and plugin does not allow to turn off CSS with block style and put all styles in stylesheet. It is better to use List style, as it is more compatible with W3 standard.

Hi JoomlaCandy, I was able to reproduce this. Apparently, I need to change the order of shortcode and tags striping on line 354. I added this to fix in future version. Thanks for information.

Hi Mary

Have you had any luck in finding a quick solution for the stripping of the image caption tags as mentioned in my January 13 comment (http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/comment-page-10/#comment-2415)?

Thanks
Mark

Hi Tiziana, I hope this section can help with sizes question:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#thumb_sizes
I think you can put adsense after plugin or before, you can use plugin tag for more versatility:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display

Hi Mark, yes it’s the same problem that JoomlaCandy addressed. I wasn’t able to reproduce it earlier.

hello
first thank you for writing this awesome plugin.
second i have a question.in most of related post appropriate thumbnails does show but for some post they never appear.and i really confused with that.why some doesn’t appear?

Thank you
Ali Assadi

Hi Mary,
i hope you can help me. I don’t have images on my thumbnails.
Here is an example: http://www.mobilecheck.net/2011/03/13/speed-test-im-video-samsung-omnia-7-vs-lg-optimus-7/

I’m using the Theme Arras but every post have thumbnails. I now that i have some “CHMOD-Problems” on my site because of my hoster. Maybe i have to change CHMOD of any dictionary?
I hope you can help me.

Baramba

Hi Ali and Baramba, please check this section http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems for possible problems and solutions

Hi, thank you for your answer but i can’t find the problem.
Here ist the Developer-Log: http://pastebin.com/ntzpf7C1
He can’t find the URL but i can set the image to use without any problems: “quick-preview-thumb” I’m using it for my thumbnails on the startscreen, too.

Mary,
Any chance that you could post the solution for the [/caption] issue?
Thanks

Hello!
I’ve recently changed the setting from automatically append to the post, to using the php tag in the loop.

I realized shortly afterwards that the title (or Top Text) does not get displayed if you use the php tag.

Now, I put my own title in the loop, right before I call the related posts plugin, but the problem with this is that it still displays the title even if there is no related post.

I’d like to display title ONLY if there are related posts to display.

Can you help me do this? I’m sure I can edit the plugin to do this, I’m just not sure how to do it.

Hi Brian, if you want to change this in plugin code, you can add at line 66:

$show_top = true;

Thanks so much Mary!
This plugin is fantastic.

Now I have one more question for you…

In addition to displaying the post title below the thumbnail, is it possible to display the category name as well?

I’ve found the line where it outputs the title (line 320). But I cannot figure out how to display the category name.

Any ideas?

Hello Mary,

I have a specific need, can you help me please?
I wondered if it’s possible to get author (with is own link) in Related Posts Thumbnails

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi Brian,

You can get categories via wordpress function get_the_category. As in the given example:

<?php
$category = get_the_category(); 
echo $category[0]->cat_name;
?>

But, this will slow down your page load speed.

Hi Gerald, this requires to change plugin code. You need to get author ID along with other post data (line 168) in SQL query. And then get author link via for example this WordPress function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_author_posts_url

Hi Mary,
I use a function that automatically show the firs image attach to the post as thumbnail? how do I recognize this function in the related post plugins? I hope you can help me, best regards

Tiziana

Hi Mary,
I’ve used your plugin before and it’s fantastic. However, using NextGen, the gallery has no thumbnail so I tried to fix it, following your setion on problems/solutions.

However, now, NO images are showing at all on my posts. Example here: http://shanghaistreetstories.com/?p=2378

I followed all your instructions, using Generate/ Regenerate Thunbnails and all the thumbnails have bee regenerated.

I stil don’t know how to solve the problem.

Please help, am such a fan of this plugin.
Thanks,
Sue Anne

Hi Sue, I suppose this plugin does not work with NextGen, I didn’t test it though but I had some reports about this conflict before. Probably NextGen adds additional layer to WP Post-Thumbnails realization. I’ll try to check this, when I have time. Have you tried using Custom Fields option of plugin?

Hi Mary! Thanks for the reply!

Yes, it seems NextGen is incompatible to thumbnails, very frustrating. I may leave a comment on their plugin site to see if anything can be done. Will test out plugin.

But my other problem still exists. Nothing is showing on my thumbnail in my post, http://shanghaistreetstories.com/?p=2378
and I’ve tried troubleshooting according to your section on problems etc, still nothing. Can you advice?

Again, thank you for taking the time to respond!

Sue, does it allow to set post thumbnails manually?

Mary, if I wanted to set post thumbnails manually, are you referring to custom fields? Otherwise, no, I don’t think so. I don’t want to mess with the code.

Cheers,
Sue Anne

Sue, you change it on Post Edit page in Featured Image block for each post:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/featured-image-212×500.jpg

Thanks for your patience, Mary.

It seems that my theme does not have “featured image’. Perhaps that is the root of the problem. I do not know anything about code, I suspect I will have to slowly figure that one out.

Sue, you can then use “Custom field” option. Or add “Featured Image” to your theme.

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/

Basically, you need to add a couple of code lines to your theme functions.php file if your WP is 2.9+ version. You can edit it on your theme Editor page in WP dashboard. Select Functions file and add the code at the end of it. Save the whole file contents on your computer before changing it in case of problems so you can use backup.

if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
	add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
	set_post_thumbnail_size( 100, 100, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
}

Here 100/100 is width/height in px. Then, you’ll be able to see Featured Image block on Post Edit screen.

Hi.
Thank you very much for this great plugin !
It’s wrilly cool,

Best regards !

Mary, I added add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); to the functions file. I figured in related posts, the preset is already at 100x100px, so I don’t need to add the rest of the code you mentioned? Is that fine?

Mine is WordPress 3.1.

Success! The Related Posts are now working and look so lovely, your patience has been greatly appreciated. It was my first time adding code, all thanks to you!

Sue, I am glad it worked. If it’s working it’s fine.

Hi! The plugin is amazing, but sometimes I have a little problem: instead of showing the thumbnails and titles horizontally, the plugin shows them vertically, one on the other. I can send you a screenshot if you give me an e-mail address. Is there any way to solve that?

Hi Juan, you can try to change “Output style” as “List” in plugin settings. If this does not work and plugin styles still conflict with your theme styles, you can turn off plugin’s CSS by changing Output style and use your own CSS options in theme styles file.

Thanks for the great plugin!

One thing I couldn’t figure out (but probably very easy solution…): how can I make the text (below the thumbnail) Bold?

Is there any way for the thumbnails to be displayed in alphabetical order (according to the “Title” of each post)?

This plugin is aboslutely fantastic by the way. Thank you for your wonderful work.

Hi,

Thanks for your nice plugin which I have been using for almost 2 years without hassle. Now, I just launched a new website and some of the content on here was imported from a different blog. I installed the related post plugin but I notice that it does not seem to show any thumbnails for any of the posts that was imported from the old blog even though I have even gone as far as to upload new thumbnails for this site.

Can you please advice me on what I need to tweak in order to get this working. Perhaps my css knowledge is insufficient. Many thanks in advance

Hi Whoworeit,
Do you see post thumbnails in Featured Image block for each post – probably it was not set up when moving blog? Please also check manual’s section “Possible problems and solutions” – http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems
BTW, I created this plugin in May of last year

Mike D, no, they show only in random order.

Hi Nick, as plugin inline styles overwrite CSS settings, the only way to do this would be turning off plugin CSS in use your own styles in theme styles file. Please read here more.
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display_editing

Hi,
I know I requested this about 6 months ago but I thought I would ask again. Could we get support for custom taxonomies…show thumbs in one taxonomy only? I know this might be tough to add in because everybody’s taxonomies are different but I was wondering if there might be a hack that we could add to the code and edit in our own taxonomies.

Thanks.

Hi Mary,

I have a quick question..
I’m using the top text to display a header above my related posts, but I’m trying to dynamically add the category name to the title.
Basically I’d like it to say something along the lines of “More posts in [whatever the category is]“.
I’ve tried entering a php tag in the top text input box, but it is not working….

Is there a way I can accomplish this by editing the plugin?

Thanks!

Hi Al, I have this in my ToDo, as well as some other tasks for the next version. This task requires some time, as I need to rewrite core plugin functionality. I hope to get to it next month, right now all my free time I am preparing for exam I need to pass next month.

Hi brian, yes top text may contain only textual data. The title is getting on line 298. You can append category name to it, may be using this function http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category by using $post->ID as $id and taking first array element.

Just FYI I wanted to let you know this is one of the most usefuls plugins I ever used, Im a big fans. You are great, Thanks for all ! – Sebas

Thank you, Sebas

Hi,

I love your plugin and it was working great, but then I installed a Facebook Like button at the bottom too. Now I lost my thumbnails at the bottom of the page. I deleted the Like button plugin, and then uninstalled & reinstalled Related Posts, but still no return of the thumbnails. Thanks for your help.

I found some of the thumbnails can’t be shown , what should i do ?

Hi Doreen, can you see top text or it was gone also? Try to use plugin tag <?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> in your theme file right after post.

Hi Alan, there are could be different reasons, depending on your blog and plugin configuration. Please take a look at section “Possible problems and solutions” on plugin homepage http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

That’s great. Good luck in your test. BTW, you should have a donate button.

Hi Mary,
I just moved my blog from WP.com to WP.org and installed your wonderfull plugin, but although it is correctly installed, and activated and I can even modify it, the thumbnails of the related posts don’t appear on the blog, as if the plugin wasn’t there. I contacted the web hosting asking whether it was a server to server connection problem, and they said everything was fine with the server, so I was wondering whether you have any suggestion what the problem could be.
Thanks a lot,
Daria.

Hi Daria, please check this section : http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems
If this does not help, please enable developer mode in plugin settings and let me know.

I formerly used linkwithin and although I have deactivated and deleted this plugin…when I activate your plugin it still shows me all the linkwithin links…have I missed something?

Hi Mary,

I am desperately looking for related posts plugin to work, i use Arthemia theme which already has timthumb, tht automatically generates thumbnails, so my problem is how can i get this plugin to work with timthumb. I followed the instructions given above, but thumbnails doesnt show in posts. So i have deactivated the plugin right now, will activate it once it works.

I was glad tht u are prompt with the replies, unlike other developers, so please help me out here, since I want this to work.:)

Would really appreciate it! Thanks a lot in advance!

Hi Jocelyn, if you disabled Linkwithin and it is still there, probably you should clear your cache plugin.

Hi Bhavika, with timthumb, you should use “Custom field” option, set correct Custom Field Name and Theme resize URL to your timthumb file: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#custom_field

Hi Maria,
I asked about installing your plugin before but wasn’t on the latest build of WP. I finally am! I’m not getting any errors now, but I can’t get any thumbnails to show. I’m using Viva zoom to create my thumbs, I think, but I can’t find the php call for the “custom field”. Did I even say that right? I’m rotten with coding! Thank you very much!

Hi Pikesan, do you have Featured Image block on your post edit screen to set post thumbnail? Or sometimes people use Custom Field under the post to provide thumbnail url. Please check http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Just wanted to say thanks so much. This plug-in is the best in its class. I love it!! Very impressive. It perfectly met my needs (unlike some of the others I tried). Keep up the great work.

Hi Mary,
thanks a lot for your answer, now it’s working and it looks great, I also installed “generate post thumbnail” and everything went smoothly. The only thing is that now on each post on top of the main image that I inserted as a full size image I get the featured image as a thumbnail, I suppose if I want to remove that thumbnail from the post I have to do it through the theme editor,it’s just that I’m pretty new in the field and have no clue how to do it. I’m using the “suffusion theme” and if I go to the media.php, I find the follwing string:

* Retrieves an image if a Native “Featured Image” is attached to the post.
*
* @param string $size
* @return array|bool|string
*/
function suffusion_get_image_by_post_thumbnail($size = ‘excerpt-thumbnail’) {
global $post;
if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
// Problem with using get_the_post_thumbnail() here is that the image might not be resized correctly, so instead we
// use wp_get_attachment_image_src, (which is used internally by get_the_post_thumbnail()), and that returns the resized dimensions with the URL.
$attachment_id = get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID);
$img = wp_get_attachment_image_src($attachment_id, $size, false);
return $img;
}
else {
return “”;

Do you think this is the correct place to change the parametres? Or am I comletely wrong? Sorry, but it really all sounds pretty new to me!
Thanks a lot.
Daria.

Hi Sharell, Thanks! I like it myself on my blogs and going to support it and make better

Hi Daria, yes you need to remove it in your theme Editor. In your theme files for Single post “single.php”, or home page “index.php” look for tag, that outputs post thumbnail and remove/comment it. I suppose it’s the name of the given function in your theme. But it seems from your website that you figured this out already.

Hi Mary,
Yes I found the way through the options of the theme settings, because trhough the code I could not find the correct file to change this information. Thanks a lot for your support and for this great plugin.
Daria.

The best plugin that i ever found!
You can add the related post WITHOUT add code in the theme!

A lot of thanks from Italy!!

Have you tried this on Linux/?

Muñecos, yes

Andrea, thanks!

Is there any way that to SPECIFY a CATEGORY so that this can be used on a wordpress PAGE? I want to display these post links from a specific category directly on my homepage. Thank you either way.

Hey Mary,

I want to create a list of related posts for a specific category on my homepage without the posts showing on the main page. I tried to do this but if the category is not on the homepage then the plugin won’t read the posts.

Basically i want to list 4 thumbnails for my video category in my homepage template regardless if the posts is showing on the page

Tasha and Chris, plugin works only with posts, as it needs to be related to some post, so you can’t call it independently.

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Здравствуйте, Мария!
На моем сайте установлен популярный плагин галерей NextGen Gallery. В постах одиночные изображения вставляются через короткие коды типа [singlepic id=479 w=500 h=500 float=center]. Наверное, Ваш плагин не воспринимает их как изображения.
Тогда, в качестве источника миниатюр я пытаюсь указать произвольные поля. В настройках плагина указываю путь до PHP-скрипта: http://palitra-vkusov.ru/wp-content/themes/Snippet/thumb.php При этом миниатюры все равно отказываются отображаться. Что я делаю не правильно?

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Hi,

I really want to thank you for this great plugin. I’ve been looking for something like this for weeks and till I get yours nothing worked good. So again let me thank you for this perfect work.

Сергей, название произвольного поля должно быть идентично и в том же кейсе. Если произвольное поле содержит правильный URL картинки, то плагин берет его как он есть. Так как картинок вообще нет, то проблема именно в названии произвольного поля – то есть оно не совпадает с тем, что храниться в базе данных. Если вы включите режим разработчика в настройках плагина, то увидите в HTML исходнике вывод плагина и возможную причину ошибки.

Thanks, Guill!

Loved the plugin wish the relation based option “Categories and Tags’ would have an option to have the posts sorted by either Tags,Categories or Categories,Tags. I’d like to see all my posts with tags first then categories.
Thanks for the hard work put in for this free plugin!

Wonderful plugin! I’m so thrilled to find a solution to my problem, that works!!! Thank you so much.

One quick question – I can’t seem to add a border to just the thumbnail of the related post list – any help?

A donation will be on it’s way!!!!

example: http://thebuzzinthecity.com/buzzunder21/biggies-son-co-stars-w-will-ferrell-in-new-movie/

Thank you in advance!

Hi Sara, you can choose output style as List in plugin settings and turn off plugin CSS. Use CSS in your theme styles file instead. You can take it from here:

http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display_editing

Change border to “1px solid black” for “#related_posts_thumbnails img” selector.

Hi Mary,

Thank you for this wonderful plugin!

On your website here, you mentioned that we can call your plugin via shortcode. Could you provide what the shortcode is? (I am aware of the php call you can make by using:
)

But if there is a shortcode I can use in the WordPress Edit Post page where I write content, I would love to use that instead.

Thank you!
Leelu

Hey Mary;

Great Plugin! Some questions:

I’m Brazilian. Some characterers like ã and á are looking ok in the excerpt. Others like ç and é was changed by an ?. A tipiacal UTF8 problem, but I never saw with some characters.

Second: I dind´t find the shotcodes to use in one unique post…

Tks

Sergio

Hi,

Like most of us, I really love yours plugin! I just need a little help with image source thing.

Since I have been using Dean’s FCKEditor I also upload images using that plougin but as a reason images are not displayed in Related Posts Thumbnails plugin.

I think that the reason is that images are now beeing stored in directory wp-content/uploads/images . Do you think you could help me with this?

Thanks in advance

It is me again – my blog is http://nafejsie.pl/ . As you can see, some older entries display images because they were made using WordPress native upload functionality.

I really love this plug-in. It didn’t take me long to get it configured under Thesis and is infinitely more customizable than Linkwithin, which is what I was using before. I like how I can add my own background color, font family, etc. Again, thanks a million for this and keep up the great work!

Leelu, the shortcode is related-posts-thumbnails

Hi Sergio, thanks for this info. Default php string manipulation functions does not take encoding into account, so the code may cut the excerpt in the middle of some character and return ? instead. I am gonna to add support for multibyte string, if it’s turned on, as it is done in core WP, but it is not default PHP extension. You may consider to use function overloading in your PHP configuration http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.overload.php as this will solve this problem with other possible plugins.
The shortcode is related-posts-thumbnails
Again thanks for information about encoding problem.

Hi Artuur, do you use Featured Image block on Post Edit screen to set post thumbnail? It’s the best approach to specify post thumbnail. This way plugin gets this Featured Image as specified without any post processing for image URL, which may not always work correctly.

Adam, thanks for your feedback!

The related posts won’t show up on the home page. When I click on “older posts” all those posts will show the related posts… so How do I get this to show up on the home page? –> http://www.readysetsuperpet.com

Hi Sonya,
1) make sure you unset “Show on single posts only”
2) Try using plugin tag in your theme to call it directly http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display
3) make sure it goes inside the Loop http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Thank you Mary! I figured it out! User error! the first post on the home page didn’t show related posts, because there weren’t any. when I switched to “random post” it worked!

Love the update to include taxonomies. It is great to finally have relevant links on my posts. Thanks very much. [Sent small donation.]

I don’t know how much you are going to develop this plugin but I have a few other things on my wishlist. The top priority for me though is to make my links even more relevant. At the moment it seems that any tag makes it a related post but I think it would be much better if posts with more than one similar tag had more likelihood of being the related post. Just in case I am not being clear I will give and example.

Post A tags: apple, banana, farm

Post B tags: apple, PC, computer

Post C tags: apple banana, fruit

Imagine for a second that there is only one related post allowed. I think in the current algorithm both Post A and Post B could be displayed as related post to Post A but I think it would be better than Post C only be displayed as it has two matching tags and Post B only has one making Post C more relevant. (Yes, I am long-winded.)

The other thing on my wishlist is to be able to have two separate related posts on one post. For example if it was a Movie database we could show related posts of actors in one row and directors in another.

I know you are busy but I am curious as to what you think of those ideas regardless of whether you have the time or inclination to implement them.

And thanks again. I was so happy to see that taxonomies were included in the update.

Hi Al,
I am glad you liked the update and thanks for donation. I know what you mean by more relevant. Now plugin takes as relevant any post that has at least one tag on common. The good part of this is that it makes one fast database request without grouping and ordering. But I can add this as an option.
The other thing – two related posts with different options probably can be done by customizable shortcode, which I was going to add in future.

That’s great. Thanks for the reply. I look forward to the updates. I have another idea although it is not something I am thinking about at the moment but I think many people might be interested. The ability to exclude certain terms from being used to determine relationships.

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Installed it but when I click related posts settings it shows the dashboard but i can’t see the plugin settings.

Hi
This is a very nice plugin!
Please inform me how to pout 4 thumbnails instead of 3.
How can I change the width of thumbnails?
Thank you
Agis

Помогите, пожалуйста. Уже везде поменяла шрифт, все равно показывает Arial. И не понимаю, где поменять размер миниатюр. У меня показываются гигантские

http://www.dietplan.ru/korr/med-massage/

Помогите, пожалуйста. Где вообще стили-то этого плагина?

Hi rod, can you access it by the link: BLOG_URL/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=related-posts-thumbnails ? May be you don’t have sufficient rights.

Hi Agis,
1) you can set it on plugin settings page: “Number of similar posts to display” option
2) If you are using thumbnails source as post thumbnails, and selected “thumbnail” as size, it takes your WordPress configured size, that you can change on “Media” page and regenerate thumbnails. Check this out too: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#thumb_sizes

Привет Маша,

Опции плагина находятся в разделе Параметры> Related Posts Thumbs
1) Опции стиля позволяют менять стиль. “Стиль шрифта” задает шрифт.
Там же некоторые другие опции стиля. Если этого недостаточно, можно выбрать Опции вывода – Список и Отключить стили плагина полностью. Тогда будет выводится HTML UL список без стилей с id = #related_posts_thumbnails, который можно полностью задизайнить. Тут больше информации – http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display_editing

2) При настройках по умолчанию, плагин использует размер “thumbnails”, который создается самим WordPress. Этот размер меняется в разделе “Медиафайлы” – Размер миниатюры.
Так же можно задать свой собственный размер в теме вордпресса. Вот тут описано как http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/new-in-wordpress-2-9-post-thumbnail-images/ и указать в настройках плагина его в опции “Название миниатюры”.
В любом случае после изменения размера в Медиафайлах или добавления нового размера нужно прогнать плагин http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

Спасибо за ответ. Размер уменьшила во вкладке Медиафайлы. Но у меня половина миниатюр просто не показывается. Я не понимаю, по какому принципу он показывает или не показывает, потому что на сайте есть загрузка картинок, из последней загруженной формируются уменьшенные копии для анонсов, я не понимаю, почему он их не ставит в related posts.

Раньше для некоторых показывал картинку по умолчанию. После того, как уменьшила размеры, половину вообще не показывает. Смотрите

http://www.dietplan.ru/hudet/bananovaya-dieta-na-3-dnya/

Смотрите сами

Маша, судя по HTML коду плагин пытается вставить картинку размером 100×100. Это то что вы хотите? Но таких картинок такого размера у вас на блоге нет. Например, http://www.dietplan.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2009_04_13-Cucumber1.jpg есть, а его варианта 100×100 нет http://www.dietplan.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2009_04_13-Cucumber1-100×100.jpg

Вы прогнали плагин http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ после изменений настроек медиафайлов?

Hi,
The plugin is not showing all thumbnails for all the related posts. Sometimes it shows thumbnail for just one post and sometimes it shows for none.
Please help to solve the problem.
Thanks.

Hi Ravi, please take a look at section possible problems and solutions: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Hi and thanks for definitely the best related posts plugin

Is there a away to deselect thumbnails in themes? I want to manually insert the php in my single posts template where it will use post thumbnails but in my mobile themes set it to exlude thumbs. Maybe say: get_related_posts_thumbnails(‘list’);

Do you see what I mean? i.e. manually select whether it displays the thumbs or not depeneding on where I’m inserting it

TIA

I’ve selected to sort my related posts by “Categories and Tags”. However, I’ve noticed the tags are never taken into consideration. When I switch it to categories only, it does that. When I do tags only, it does that. But with categories and tags it only ever matches the categories.

Hi,
As suggested in the above link, I have run the “Generate post thumbnails” plugin, but the problem still remains there.
Any advice to overcome the problem would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Uche, plugin does not support it, you can use your own php code around get_related_posts_thumbnails(); like put it in IF statement for example.

HI Ravi, can you see Featured Image for each post? Were they generated properly? Please enable developer mode in plugin and let me know the link.

Hi Jeremy, when you set “Categories and Tags” it takes posts either with the same category or with the same tag or both. So you can have posts with similar category but different tags.

^Oh, I was hoping for it require both. Is there any way to make it do that so it must be in the same category and share the same tag?

Hi
If I change the size from my Traction theme, then there are no images at the plugin.
Also I noticed that from 19/5 there are no images at the plugin. The same happens to all the posts that I updated since then, with new photos.
http://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-24-at-00.52.40-1.png
Thank you for supporting me
Agis

Hi
I think I fix it!
I went to: Traction theme editor/ Traction-extend.php/define image sizes
add_image_size( ‘index-thumb’, 175, 150, true );
chage it to
add_image_size( ‘index-thumb’, 150, 150, true );
Regenerate Thumbnails.
It worked!
Thank you
Agis

Hi Mary,
Thanks for reverting.
How do I check the featured image for each post? Yes, the developer mode has been enabled. You may check it.

Jeremy, no, I didn’t implement this as it requires nested database queries.

Hi Ravi, you need to set Featured Image for your posts. Here is a screenshot: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/featured-image.jpg
If there is no Featured Image plugin is trying to get image from post body and sometimes it can’t find the right size for it. So the best is to provide Featured Image.

Hello!
I am trying to center the thumbnails but I am not sure where to put the code:

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you very much.

Hello is there a way that I can extend this so that the hover action changes the thumb to a second defined custom field? or overlays a css block as can be seen in http://www.commonwealthclub.org/ in their jcarousel footer

Hello all, i would like some assistance if possible. I’m using the Simple Post Thumbnails by Press75.com. The image thumbnail loop in gallery php is ID, 180, 150); ?> and in single page is ID); ?>. When i post i use a special field for uploading pictures (no custom field) provided by Simple Post Thumbnails. Related Posts Thumbnails works fine except the thumnails which i don’t know how to insert. Any ideea where to start or how to do it?

oh, the code got cut the first was p75GetThumbnail($post->ID, 180, 150); and the second get_thumbnail($post->ID)

Your related posts plugin is the BEST. I tried YARRP and another (forgot the name) and couldn’t get them to work right. Yours worked perfectly and easily the first time out. I need to find out how to reduce the space between the title and thumbnails, but I’m sure it won’t be a problem. Thank you!!! Will leave a 5-star rating on WP site.

Just a fantastic job on this plugin. I am having one small problem with the text titles under the thumb images–the text seems to render ‘ and & as html codes rather then their equivalent. See example here:

http://svgcuts.com/47blogdev/st-patricks-day-svg-card.htm

Any thoughts on what a fix might be?

Agis, center output is here: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#center_output
You put this code in your theme files, like single.php

Hi Baz, you can turn off plugin CSS completely: http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display_editing
And use your own CSS and javascript.

Hi Catalin, what do you mean except thumbnails you don’t know how to insert? Do you use Featured Image block if provided by your theme? http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/featured-image.jpg

HI Kim, you can select Output style as List on plugin settings and add some CSS settings in your theme styles file. For example,
#related_posts_thumbnails span {margin-top: 0px}
You can also turn off plugin CSS completely and use your own CSS.

Hi Frank, I can see what’s the problem -some blogs are using encoded strings some are not. I’ll add a fix to it in the next version, probably via an option. Right now I can tell you how to fix this in plugin code for your blog. It’s line 361 of related-posts-thumbnails.php file, you can find it in Plugins>Editor. You can remove “htmlspecialchars(” and one closing parenthesis “)”. This will disable encoding of text. Backup plugin code in case of problem before changes.

No Mary, i’m not, i’m using the plugin provided by the theme (the one called “Simple Post Thumbnails”). As you can see i don’t have Featured image (altough i disabled most of my plugins) it still won’t show up…

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/727/usinga.png

Catalin, I can see you are using custom field Thumbnail. You can set it as thumbnails source in plugin options.

Yes, that’s how i ended up doing, but i thought i could find an easy way out and use the simple post thumbnails thingy since all my posts have thumbnails like this (over 1000). So now i set up to use Custom Field and copied all the picture links from Simple Post to Custom Field manualy and put a limit on how way back the Related Plugin queries.

Thanx anyway for the help. Great plugin !

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Any chance of adding a slider feature to this plugin?

greath plugin! the only little issue is that related post are not very related to the actual post

Hi Finid, I am not going to add slider feature to the plugin.

I am using elegant themes “aggregate theme” When i make a post i insert an image. When i look at my post it has a thumbnail not only in the intro to the post which is normal–but in the actuall full layout of the post as well. So when you open up my lets say a category and click on a post you see a thumbnail and the intro texct to the post–so you click on that to read the full post–when that opens you see a thumbnail on the top to the left and then the regular size image. All i want in the fiull post is the full size image. this is so frustrating. Please help.

Hello. Thank you for this great plugin.

One problem: I use Nextgen galleries / individual photos for some of my posts, thus your plugin doesn’t pick up on them to use them as a thumbnail. I found somewhere that someone suggested to add this to the code:

// Added by MK for nextgen gallery support.
$image = nggdb::find_image(substr($post_thumbnail_id, 4));
$url = $image->cached_singlepic_file(150, 150, ‘crop’);

I pasted it in there but it caused some error. Could you please tell me how/where to paste this in? Basically I’d like to simply add the functionality, if the plugin can’t find a wordpress gallery photo, that it will search, detect, and use the nextgen gallery/photo.

Thank-you so much!

Hi Mary- Thanks for the cool plugin! I’ve had it installed for awhile now, but the last update has made all my thumbnails line up vertically, one over the other. Prior to this, I had the thumbnails lined up both horizontally and vertically which is how I would like to have it. I’ve looked at all the settings but can’t figure it out. What am doing wrong? Thanks!!
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Hi Paul, I am not sure where to paste this code, as I don’t know it. At this moment the plugin does not support compatibility with Nextgen, I am planing to take a closer look at this before next version.

Hi dog, try different Output styles, like Block vs List. Turning off and on plugin styles. Using your own styles in theme styles file. I am not sure how this can affect, I didn’t change design in last release. But you can check and get any version here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/download/

Thanks Mary, I think its all figured out now.

Your plugin is the best related posts plugin – I have checked out almost everyone that is available. Just a question on “top text” when “auto” is disabled. You had asked to insert this in the loop manually. But, then it will appear whether or not related posts are available. Is it possible to output top Text only if related posts exist, through a conditional statement? Shall be thankful if you can indicate the code to be put. Thanks and regards.

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Hi ProfBala, I see this is not the correct work, I’ll try to fix it. Thanks for feedback.

Thanks, Mary. just one more thing. The related posts appear after the post, but before the post pagination (my post is multi-pages) – whether I use “auto” or manually place the code in the loop in “single.php” just after the post. Whereas, it should appear after the pagination. Any ideas to correct this? Thanks again.

ProfBala, usually, there is a tag in theme to show where to put paginaton http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_link_pages
So I guess, you need to put it after wp pagination tag.

Hello, great plugin, I’m using this for a two months.
but now I changed my theme to Graphene and I have some problems with
http://i55.tinypic.com/2meyi53.jpg
Do you know how do I put a hr line before your plugin?

Or in title like: http://i55.tinypic.com/9r0hg7.jpg

sorry about that, my english is not good
thanks in advance

Magrao, use your own CSS http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display_editing
I guess you can do that by setting border-bottom to title.

Hi Mary, this plugin is brilliant! My site has drastically improved. Thank you. I was wondering how to disable the plugin on certain pages. Is there a code I can paste into the page? Also, when I set the amount of posts from 4 to 5, it goes from all 4 horizontal at one level to 4 at one level and 1 right below it. There is ample space thats why I am confused why the thumbnails don’t just continue horizontally across on the same line/level.
Thanks in advance,
best regards,
Leif

Hello,
I’m trying out your plugin on a site I’m currently building, and it seems to be working really great & no conflicts/problems that interfere with anything as far as I can see, but I just thought I’d let you know of an error message I see when I click on the ” relation based on: Custom” option in the plugin settings – it says:
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /XXXX/XXXX/XXXX/XXXX/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 753
/> category Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /XXXX/XXXX/XXXX/XXXX/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 753
/> post_tag Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /XXXX/XXXX/XXXX/XXXX/wp-content/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/related-posts-thumbnails.php on line 753
/> post_format

The theme installed is NewsPro byGabfire, and the site is using WordPress v3.1.3, if that helps.
By the way, I have a suggestion for later versions – it would be great if the widget could be styled independently, so eg: widget in list format & the on-page version in the block format…

Hi Leif,
you can use plugin tag in your theme files with any conditions
get_related_posts_thumbnails();
and turn off automatic appending.
You can turn off plugin CSS (choose Output style as List) and then you can use your own CSS to design ouput
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#display_editing

I love the concept however for some reason the plugin isn’t doing it’s thing. I’ve downloaded it, activated it and adjusted the settings however to no avail.

Any solutions would be most appreciated please!

Just remark,
If you want display first image inside post, and it’s not shown, just change line (266) to this :

preg_match_all( ‘||i’, $post->post_content, $matches );

to this

preg_match_all( ‘//i’, $post->post_content, $matches );

Hi Vienda, there are different problems may occur depending on your settings. Please check this:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Please help. I am using WordPress with thesis theme. In order to get thesis to show images on the home page, I need to type the url of the image into the Post image box below the post–it is not a custom field but something built into the thesis post form. However when I do this, related posts won’t take that image and make it a thumbnail. Please advise how I can get it to do that when the post itself does not have an image within it, it is just in the post image form.

Hi Sam, please try this http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#thesis

Hello,
first of all, thank you for this amazing plugin, I love it. You did a great job !
My question is from someone who is a newbie in using plugins.
The related products appear at the end of my post, but before others functionnalities like the price or the “add to basket”.

I would like to put it after those functionnalities and understood that i have to copy the php : . But considering i am a newbie, i have no idea where i am supposed to put it? Which file ? Product.php from my theme ? thank you very much for any help

Hi Malfouf, yes, you need to use plugin tag <?php get_related_posts_thumbnails(); ?> in your theme files to put it in a place you want. Theme files can be different. Most commonly single.php is used for single posts, index.php for the main page. If it is a product.php then it is something different. I suggest you to ask your theme developer where you can put this tag.

Hi love your plugin and hoping you can hlep me. I’m using a genesis based theme and although I have been able to get it to insert the custom field thumbnail entry, I cannot get it to resize. I have looked everywhere for the script location with no luck. Are you able to assist? Thank you.

Hi Sami, for resizing you need to provide your theme’s resizing URL. You can check how to get it from your images URL here:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#custom_field

Hi Maria, thanks for this great plugin, I love it.
I have a question for you. I want thumbnails only in the sidebar widget, not under the post. which way I have to turn automatic appending ? Since nothing happen when I do that from the settings screen. Is there a line I could remove somethere ? please let me know. Thanks.

Finally found to resolve my problem. Had to use the “nrelate” plugin which offer the same option to turn off automatic append below the post. It worked for it, then I desactivated it and reactivated “related post thumbnails” working now like a charm !

Hi…
is it possible to use the plugin like a “short-code” ?

I want to embed it inside a “page” not a “post”
so that it lists in “nodes” some specific “category”

is that possible?

Fantastic plugin!! Also great info here on how to tweak and modify things, got everything I needed, thank you so very much

Ahmed, yes [related-posts-thumbnails]
You can specify post types also in plugin settings

its not working. i followed you instructions for thesis.
i am using thesis and all my images are from blogspot.

can you provide one sample of the shortcode : [related-posts-thumbnails]
with options ?
how to set the category? the output style? etc?
what are the allowed variables?

I’ve tried as well the shortcode directly [related-posts-thumbnails]
in a “page” but with not output. I have tried adding a category= xxx
but still nothing coming out…. any suggestions?

Can you tell me how I can remove the white text block? I just want a 5px padding around each thumbnail, but I can’t figure out how to do it. Can I do that just using the Block output style, or do I need to use Lists output style and do all my own custom CSS? Thank you!

Hi Kelly, you can’t do that with Block style, you need to use List style and your own CSS.

Hey!
I really really love your plugin, and it was working like clockwork before yesterday. Now, what I did yesterday is I upgraded to WP 3.2.1. (which I’m sure doesn’t conflict with your plugin), and I installed another plugin that provides my blog with a lot of shortcodes, it’s called Shortcodes Ultimate. I have a feeling that’s conflicting with your awesome plugin somehow, because if the output option was set to Blocks, the one that I wanna use, it displayed them in list form, with all the set options.

I’m sure it’s got to do with the output part of the plugin, because I tried the List option and pasted the code in my theme CSS and indeed, the thumbnails are showed up in list form. Only I want to set them to be displayed in Blocks, can you help me out with the settings in CSS for them to be shown up as Blocks?

Thanks a lot!

Ok, scratch that, I noticed you had the basic CSS settings put up; but I’ve got a few things I cann’t figure out about it.
Like, when using the style+basic blocks CSS, under the post title there’s this blank space and the right border stretches lower for some post thumbnails when hovering over them with the mouse.
Is there a way to get rid of that blanks space there, under the post title? In the Plugin options I’ve set:
Excerpt maximum length to 0

and it worked when I used the Block display option, only the titles showed up, border equal for all thumbnail posts, hover or not.

Is there a way to get back to that lovely situation through CSS instructions? If so, what would they be?

*sigh*
Sorry for being such a bother

The name of this plugin is misleading. Should rename this plugin to “Random Post” plugin. This plugin does not show related posts at all. Sorry. Back to using YARPP. I do still use this plugin to display my random post though, thanks.

Hi L.E.Olteano, adjusting “Text block height” to smaller number should help to get rid of white space.

Hi johny, plugin takes posts within the same category or tags, that’s why it is called related.

Hi there,

pretty cool plugin
I would like to add more than one block of thumbnails… actually I show 8 thumbs under each post with the standard autoimplement…
I also would like to add 4 above the post… is that possible in any way?

Best regards

Hi Spawnie, you can edit “Number of similar posts to display” option.

Hi Mary,

thanks for your fast reply
I know that – but I want to show 4 posts before the content and 8 after – then maybe another 8 at the side (2rows 4columns).
Actually it looks like its only possible to show one block of similar posts – maybe thats an idea for a next version to make multible blocks with different settings

Spawnie, you can also try using plugin tag and shortcode to put it where you like.

Hi Mary,

but that would still show 8 posts right?
Or is there a way to limit the number of posts to be shown in shorttag?
Im kind of a n00b with this stuff – so need more adavanced help ^^

Spwnie, right, I didn’t realize you need different settings. I have such request to customize each tag, I don’t know yet if I am going to implement this.

I just donated $15 because your plugin is really cool and will donate another $35 if ever you implement the feature for multi-customize

Please keep me updated

I love this plugin–thanks so much for developing it! I’m experiencing one problem with it though: it won’t display my actual blog post pictures, just the default image. How do I change that?

Hi Mary,

your plugin rocks and is really a beauty . But is there any way to display the related articles not among one another but side by side, parallel, to each other.

thank you so much !!!

Hi, Maria.

Is this plugin working on WordPress 3.2.1 or the one before 3.2.1? I’m not getting it to work in my blog (http://euterpe.blog.br/) and don’t know very well from where to start (I’ve already turned on “Developer mode”).

Thanks!

Sorry, Maria! I’m already editing it here. Thanks!

Hi Mary,

thank you so much for this plug-in that really feat my needs.
Unfortunatly the images doesn’t appear, I only have the text (whereas each post gets an image).

My theme do support post-thumbnails feature as there are some on the home page…
COuld you help me ?

Thank you so much in advance.

Здравствуйте, Мария.
Можно по-русски?
спасибо вам за прекрасный плагин, но при его использовании у меня возникла проблема: я не могу попасть в настройки плагина – вместо них открывается пустая страница. Мне же необходимо исключить некоторые рубрики из списка тех, откуда берутся related posts. Подскажите, пожалуйста, в чем может быть проблема и как (в случае, если мне не удастся добраться до настроек) прописать исключение рубрик?

Hi,

tnx for the top plugin.

Question: I wish to exclude teh Related Posts Thumbnails when printing the post. But there ist no css-class or id to tell the print.css for display:none.
Can you say me, how i can add a css-class ind the output?

thnx very much
greetings from Munic!
Johann

again …
I found your solution for most of my first post ( July 27, 2011 at 1:02 am) in your super description
Only the header has no class or id, so I cant manupulate it.

have a nice time
johann

again again:
I solved it in the backend of Related Posts Thumbnails by coding at “Oberer Text:”

bye
joahnn

i activated the plugin and select ‘custom field’ as the thumbnail source with the custom field name being ‘entry-preview’.

but i cannot see any image. Only the post titles are displayed.

can anybody please help so that i can get the plugin running properly.

Glynnis, please check this link http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Hi Jakob, do you mean horizontal list http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#horizontal_list

Hi Morgane, please check this http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems if this does not help enable developer mode and let me know

Яна, какая у вас версия WordPress? Единственное что плагин проверяет это наличие достаточных прав для администрирования блога

Hi Vikrant, please enable developer mode and let me know.

Мария, версия WordPress у меня 2.9.
А права у меня вроде бы максимальные – никогда проблем не возникало по этому поводу.

Яна, оказалось, что проблема действительно есть, а именно не в совместимости версий плагина 1.3 и WP 2.9. В WP 3.0 были представлены новые функции, которые я использую в плагине, но в документации WP это не отражено. Я сейчас загрузила измененную версию плагина 1.3.1, в ней должна заработать админка.

Ура, Мария, спасибо огромное, установила новую версию – открылись настройки!

Thanks for a brilliant plugin.

I have just imported all my blog posts from a previous blog but the images and everything are still hosted on the original server.

Is it possible to tell the plugin to go take the thumbnail from the original post on the old server?

BUT then I also need it to know when to use a thumbnail from a new post on the new server…

I know its a lot to ask!

My apologies, “generate thumbnails” has done the trick!

Hey,

I just wanted to say thanks for the brilliant plugin. It looks & works great, and the “Include only posts after” option is awesome. Thx again and all the best!

Great plug-in! Just one problem, it does not always show a thumbnail, even if that post has a picture. Most of the time it does use a picture, other times it just has a blank space. I’m not talking about the default graphic when the pst has no picture.

Hi,
I was wondering if you could add a css wrapper to the plugin for easy styling. I know that it can be done by putting the php tag in the Loop of your theme but I think it would be better to use it with the automatic appending.

Does this plugin generates related posts by running a query for each post every time it is displayed?

For example if I add this on my blogs main page with 8 posts, will it run queries on database 8 times to match related posts?

The problem is I have a lot of visitors on my website around 20K pageviews per day. A plugin that runs so many queries will slowdown my website.

Is there a workaround to this issue?

Hi Al, yes I’ll probably add this in the next version

Awesome! Thanks.

Hi Lori, probably at some point the size of thumbnails has changed. Then you need to use regenerate thumbnails plugin. Please check the section possible problems and solutions on this page.

Hi Nouman, the script runs for every post. Turning on plugin for single page only will result in less queries. You can see the plugin execution time by turning on developer mode in settings and see it in debugging information after plugin in HTML source of your page.

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Just let you know, in order to get this plugin work on my site I had to comment out line 243 and 244 with strpos and substr of url with wp-content. My urls in custom field are simply exact and do not need this. I would make this a on/off feature (so we could disable it in settings).

I have many news posts on my blog, too, so relative time including of posts would be great (like include only posts newer than…years, …months, …days, …hours and this “time rule” is applied to categories…(write IDs and commas here)).

Other things are just great!!!

I tried a regenerate thumbnails plugin and it did not help. Some posts still show no thumbnail even if there is a picture in the post. Some posts show the default thumbnail even if there is a picture in the post. Some posts work correctly.

Hi, I’m having a bit of a problem. I set the plugin to show my medium sized thumbnails in “block” display and it displays my thumbnail exactly the way I’d like it to, as a small 300×96 banner, but the border is still 300×300. Is there any way to change that border size?

this is a great plugin indeed. it provides nearly full functions which are easy to use.

just one suggestion for the function:
designated related post in single post (of course, others using automatic as same as existing)

Hi Mike, thanks for suggestions. I’m going to check URL formation. I am not sure about the feature of defining start date for each category. In theory you can put all unwanted posts in some hidden category and exclude it from plugin’s use.

Christian, are all your thumbnails with the size 300×96? What size of thumbnails set in your Media settings of wordpress? You can try to change it there, plugin takes the size from wordpress settings.

Love the plug-in so far!

Simple question:
How do I change default title of the widget?
Right now it is “Related Posts”.
I want to change it to: “You might also like:”

I tried editing this:
*/
class RelatedPostsThumbnails {
/* Default values. PHP 4 compatible */
var $top_text = ‘You might also like:’;

But that didn’t work. Any ideas?

Thanks,

-
Gerard

Works perfectly now, I just had a few settings off. Thanks for the help with your excellent plugin!

Hi,
Nice plugin working good. But i am using Custom Field Matrix for the purpose. That image not showing in related post. Can you please help me.

Hello. I really like the plugin and just installed it on my site. I am wondering what I am doing wrong, that underneath each individual post, i have 2 “Related Posts” lists. One shows up as a horizontal list with thumbnails, the other shows up as a list of Blocks with thumbnails. I only want to show the Blocks list…how can I do this. I have tried everything. Thanks! Here is what I mean. Here is a link to my site: http://www.myhealthiestlife.com/?p=3372

Noelle, because you have two different Related posts plugins. Disable the other one to leave only one.

vihod, please check this http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/#possible_problems

Gerard, on your widgets configuration page, you can edit Title.

Oh my gosh, you’re right! I can not believe this. Thank you so much for getting back. I thought I had deleted that one! I actually looked before I wrote you, to see If I had another plugin activated, but didn’t notice it:) Thank you for getting back to me so quickly! I really appreciate it!

Now I see… Can’t believe I didn’t see that before! thanks!

Did you have any suggestions for me? Tried to regenerate thumbnails which did not help. Some posts show the generic thumbnail even when there is an image with the post. Other posts show a white box. Some work fine.

Lori, I went to your website. I clicked on images with default pic and posts dont have image in it, or their first link to image that is not displayed.
Some posts have images that does not have thumbnails. Like this http://themacandcheesechronicles.com/2007/05/03/in-my-garden/
Try to run Regenerate Thumbnails plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/