[Plugin: Contextual Related Posts] Incompatibility with 3.4.2?

I haven’t seen such behaviour ever.

You should uninstall the plugin from Plugins page by deactivating and then deleting the plugin. It should clean up all plugin settings.

You can just readd them back.

Do those entries still exist?

These entries still exist. I went through a whole cycle of disable/uninstall/reinstall/reindex and still get the same issue. Where should I look in the database to manually delete the index built by your plugin?

This is saved in your wp_posts database. It is the indices starting with crp_

Can I see the URL of your site?

After further tests, I have found that the plugin itself still works, but only when I let it add its content to posts. When I use:

if(function_exists('echo_ald_crp')) echo_ald_crp();

I still get the same 5 unrelated entries no matter the displayed post. Does that help? This is not on a live site right now, just in dev, so it’s hard to share a URL.

Edit: I just found that echo_ald_crp() still works for me, but only within the WP loop. I’m pretty sure that until I upgraded from WP 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 I had CRP working for me outside of the loop.

Am I supposed to only use CRP within the loop? This diminished its value as a tool to place related posts wherever you want. Is there a way to put its output into a PHP variable as opposed to directly echo it?

otravers, it works wherever the post variable is set, which is usually in the loop. If the post variable is lost (e.g. outside the loop), the plugin cannot find the correct information.

I’m testing a version to set make the post variable global that should ideally help the plugin to pull data outside the loop.

In this scenario, you have an issue with non-single pages, i.e. if you want related posts in the index or home or archives etc.

For maximum flexibility in terms of placement and look & feel, it would be great to have the ability to only retrieve IDs for the related entries and leave everything else to the developer, inside or outside the loop.

To be more specific on my code, until 3.4.1 the following query, made after having closed the loop, was properly picked up by the echo_ald_crp() function:

$the_query = new WP_Query('p=$thePostID');
$the_query->the_post();

Since 3.4.2 it looks like echo_ald_crp() is oblivious to the value returned by that query and only works within the loop.

Is this specific to your theme? If so, which theme are you using?

It’s a custom theme made in-house. For now we’ve moved related articles within the loop, which restricts our layout options somewhat. You can see it in action at:
https://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/direct/data-dive-us-online-ad-spend-per-user-2000-2011-22956/

FYI I installed the Log Deprecated Notices WP plugin which returned this about your plugin:

Argument in add_options_page()
Used in wp-content/plugins/contextual-related-posts/admin.inc.php on line 346.

Usage of user levels by plugins and themes is deprecated. Use roles and capabilities instead. Deprecated in version 2.0.

I don’t think it has anything to do with the original topic of this thread but I thought I’d mention it in passing.

otravers,

That’s an “error” that I haven’t managed to figure out why the plugin gives. According to the author they just return messages that are generated by WordPress. However, the codex doesn’t mention that this function is deprecated.

Regarding the layout, I see it beautifully, though I think you mean the comments section is moved left?

You can try a <div style="clear:both"></div> which usually fixes this issue