Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

by mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine) for WordPress.

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Version log

3.1.3

Performance improvements:
- Turning off cache expiration, made possible by smarter caching system of 3.1 - should improve caching database performance over time.
- updated primary key for cache by Pinoy.ca - improves client-side pageload times.
Code cleanup
- Rewrote include and require paths
Bugfix: localizations were not working with WordPress 2.9 (a CodeStyling Localizations bug)
Bugfix: redundant entries for "unrelatedness" were being inserted
Bugfix: yearpp_clear_cache bug on empty input
Version checking code no longer uses Snoopy.
New localization: Hindi by Outshine Solutions

3.1.2

Bugfix: saving posts would sometimes timeout

3.1.1

Possible fix for the "no related posts" issue by vkovalcik
Bugfix: slight optimization to keyword function by vkovalcik
Bugfix: regex issue with br-stripping

3.1

New snazzy options screen
Smarter, less confusing caching
- No more manual caching option—"on the fly" caching is always on now.
Bugfix: fixed related pages functionality
Bugfix: an issue with options saving
Bugfix: a slash escaping bug
Minor fixes:
- Fixed yarpp_settings_link dependency when disabled.
- Breaks (<br />) are now stripped out of titles.
- Added plugin incompatibility info for Pagebar.
- Faster post saving.

3.0.13

Quick immediate bugfix to 3.0.12

3.0.12

Yet another DISQUS note... sigh.
Changed default markup to be make the output validate better.
Reformatted the version log in readme.txt
Added a Settings link to the plugins page
Some initial WPML support:
- Tweaked a SQL query so that it was WPML compatible
- Added YARPP template to be used with WPML
Added Hebrew localization

3.0.11

Quick fix for compare_version code.

3.0.10

Added Ukrainian localization
Incorporated a quick update for the widget display thanks to doodlebee.
Now properly uses compare_version in lieu of old hacky versioning.

3.0.9

Added Uzbek, Greek, Cypriot Greek, and Vietnamese localizations
Further bugfixes for the pagination issue

3.0.8

Bugfix: a pagination issue (may not be completely fixed yet)
Bugfix: a quick bugfix for widgets, thanks to Chris Northwood
Added Korean and Lithuanian localizations
Bugfix: when ad-hoc caching was off, the cached status would always say "0% cached"
Bugfix: enabled Polish and Italian stopwords and fixed encoding of Italian stopwords.
Bugfix: is_single and other such flags are now set properly within the related posts Loop (as a result, now compatible with WP Greet Box)
Confirmed compatibility with 2.8.2
Bugfix: the Related Posts metabox now respects the Screen Options

3.0.7

Bugfix: additional bugfix for widgets.
Reinstating excerpt length by number of words (was switched to letters in 3.0.6 without accompanying documentation)
Localizations:
- Updated Italian
- Added Belarussian by Fat Cow
Confirmed compatibility with 2.8.1

3.0.6

Bugfix: updated excerpting to use wp_html_excerpt (for WP 2.5+)
Bugfix: fixed broken widget display
Added Russian (ru_RU) localization by Marat Latypov
Confirmed 2.8 compatibility
Added note on incompatibility with SEO Pager plugin

3.0.5

Added link to manual SQL setup information by request
Added Portuguese localization
Updated info on "on the fly" caching - it is strongly recommended for larger blogs.
Updated "incomplete cache" warning message so it is only displayed when the "on the fly" option is off.

3.0.4

A fix to the version checking in the options page - now uses Snoopy
Adding Dutch localization

3.0.3

Reinstated the 3.0.1 bugfix for includes
Bugfix: Fixed encoding issue in keyword caching algorithm
Bugfix: One SQL query assumed wp_ prefix on tables
Added Polish localization
Added note on DISQUS in readme
Making some extra strings localizable
Bugfix: a problem with the Italian localization

3.0.2

Bugfix: Templating wasn't working with child templates.
Bugfix: In some situations, SQL errors were printed in the AJAX preview displays.

3.0.1

Bugfix: In some situations before YARPP options were updated, an include PHP error was displayed.

3.0

Major new release!
Caching for better SQL performance
A new templating feature for custom related posts displays
Cleaned up options page
New and updated localizations

2.1.6

Versioning bugfix - same as 2.1.5

2.1.5

Bugfix: In certain scenarios, related posts would be displayed in RSS feeds even when that option was off
Bugfix: The related_*() functions were missing the echo parameter
Some localization bugfixes
Localizations:
- Japanese (ja) by myself (mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine))

2.1.4

Bugfix: Settings' sumbmit button took you to PayPal
Bugfix: Fixed keyword algorithm for users without mbstring
Bugfix: title attributes were not properly escaped
Bugfix: keywords did not filter tags. (This bugfix may vastly improve "relatedness" on some blogs.)
Localizations:
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) by Jor Wang (mail at jorwang dot com) of jorwang.com
- German (de_DE) by Michael Kalina (yarpp-de at mitcho dot com) of 3th.be
The "show excerpt" option now shows the first n words of the excerpt, rather than the content (by request)
Added an echo parameter to the related_*() functions, with default value of true. If false, the function will simply return the output.
Added support for the AllWebMenus Pro plugin
Further internationalization:
- the donate button! ^^
- overused words lists (by request)), with a German word list.

2.1.3

Bugfix: Turned off the experimental caching which shouldn't have been on in this release...
Bugfix: an issue with the keywords algorithm for non-ASCII characters

2.1.2

Bugfix: MyISAM override handling bug

2.1.1

Bugfix: keywords with forward slashes () could make the main SQL query ill-formed.
Bugfix: Added an override option for the false MyISAM warnings.
Preparing for localization! (See note at the bottom of the FAQ.)
Adding a debug mode--just try adding &yarpp_debug=1 to your URL's and look at the HTML source.

2.1 - The RSS edition!

RSS feed support!: the option to automagically show related posts in RSS feeds and to customize their display, by popular request.
A link to the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin RSS feed.
Further optimization of the main SQL query in cases where not all of the match criteria (title, body, tags, categories) are chosen.
A new format for pushing arguments to the related_posts() functions.
Bugfix: compatibility with the dzoneZ-Et and reddZ-Et plugins.
Bugfix: related_*_exist() functions produced invalid queries
A warning for wp_posts with non-MyISAM engines and semi-compatibility with non-MyISAM setups.
Bugfix: a better notice for users of Wordpress < 2.5 regarding the "compare tags" and "compare categories" features.

2.0.6

A quick emergency bugfix (In one instance, assumed existence of wp_posts)

2.0.5

Further optimized algorithm - should be faster on most systems. Good bye subqueries!
Bugfix: restored MySQL 4.0 support
Bugfix: widgets required the "auto display" option
Bugfix: sometimes default values were not set properly on (re)activation
Bugfix: quotes in HTML tag options would get escaped
Bugfix: user_level was being checked in a deprecated manner
A helpful little tooltip for the admin-only threshold display

2.0.4 - what 2.0 should have been

Bugfix: new fulltext query for MySQL 5 compatibility
Bugfix: updated apply_filters to work with WP 2.6

2.0.3

Bugfix: 2.0.2 accidentally required some tags or categories to be disabled

2.0.2

Versioning bugfix (rerelease of 2.0.1)

2.0.1

Bugfix: admin_menu instead of admin_head
Bugfix: a variable scope issue crucial for 2.0 upgrading

2.0

New algorithm which considers tags and categories, by frequent request
Order by score, date, or title, by request
Excluding certain tags or categories, by request
Sample output displayed in the options screen
Bugfix: an excerpt length bug
Bugfix: now compatible with the following plugins:
- diggZEt
- WP-Syntax
- Viper's Video Quicktags
- WP-CodeBox
- WP shortcodes

1.5.1

Bugfix: standardized directory references to yet-another-related-posts-plugin

1.5

Simple installation: automatic display of a basic related posts install
code and variable cleanup
FAQ in the documentation

1.1

Related pages support!
Also, uses apply_filters to apply whatever content text transformation you use (Wikipedia link, Markdown, etc.) before computing similarity.

1.0.1

Bugfix: 1.0 assumed you had Markdown installed

1.0

Initial upload