[Support request] What is the best tactics to show Really Related posts on WP Show Posts?

Hi there,

The post format is the one you set here – https://share.getcloudapp.com/Apuzl88n – when you publish a post.

More about that here – https://wordpress.org/support/article/post-formats/#supported-formats

I know this is not an Artificial Intelligence-powered plugin to detect posts based on user interest.

even if so…

is there any best practice to show best-related posts to the users?

As for this one, the best way to go is by creating a helper shortcode that indicates for the WPSP what the current post’s category or tag is.

add_shortcode('dynamic_wpsp', function($atts){
    $queriedArchive = get_queried_object();
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
			'id' => ''
		), $atts, 'dynamic_wpsp' );

    $settings = array(
        'taxonomy' => $queriedArchive->taxonomy,
        'tax_term' => $queriedArchive->slug,
    );
 
    ob_start();
    wpsp_display( $atts['id'], $settings );
    return ob_get_clean();
});

You then use the shortcode [dynamic_wpsp id="1234"] instead of the default wpsp shortcode. 1234 is the WPSP id you want to use.

why do we need to select post format in wp show posts?

in what scenario we need it to be selected?

It’s not really necessary. It’s a filter for when you need to show only post format of a specific type.

where and how to add the above script?

It’s a PHP snippet. You can place it on a child theme’s functions.php or through a code snippets plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

What results I can get by using the above script?

With the shortcode from the PHP snippet, WPSP will display posts only from the same taxonomy as the current post the visitor visits. It’s basically showing related posts by taxonomy. (either tags or categories)

WP Show Posts is currently prepped for a major overhaul.

The team has floated the idea of merging it with GenerateBlocks, effectively turning it into a block with more features from previous requests and I believe this one is part of it.

It’ll take a significant amount of time though, but it’s finally rolling. I’ll make sure to tag Tom to this. 😀

We’ll make sure to post an announcement once it’s up. Thank you for your patience. 🙂