Weird, I would have thought making those fields more restrictive would show FEWER articles — not sure why making it more restrictive would make things show up where nothing was showing up before?
In any case, that does seem to be working now.
If I limit it to items with matching tags, it’s going to try to match ALL of the tags, or ANY ONE of the tags? (I would really prefer it to do the latter — I want it to pull a match if any ONE of the tags match, not to limit only if ALL the tags match — can you let me know how the algorithm is set up or if that’s a setting I’m missing somewhere?)
Meanwhile, can you help me with another thing — would like to have TAGS and CATEGORIES showing up where related posts are being shown. Seems like I should be able to either add TAGS and CATEGORIES in the Custom Format Options section — just don’t see what exactly the text I would use is. (I tried “{categoryfield}” and “{taxonomyfield}” — not sure if any of those would work here?)
Or if I could do something similar to this in the functions.php file, that would work, too, I am comfortable editing functions.php and could add hooks like this to get tags and categories and just add them in this way and format them with css.
https://wp-dreams.com/articles/2013/06/adding-custom-fields-bbpress-topic-form/
Just want people to be able to see what kind of post they are linking through to when they click on a related item.
Thanks!