Featured Images not Displaying and Random Order

[DigitalTea15]

Hi there!

A post was recently updated with a featured image, however the image is not appearing in the related posts.

Also, is there a way to randomize the posts being brought back?

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

The images are cropped and cached by default for better performance. This cache usually expires within 48 hours.
You can turn it off completely, with this configuration combination: https://i.imgur.com/fuUaBPy.png

You can enabled override with random results: https://i.imgur.com/EE8bhL2.png

[DigitalTea15]

Hi Ernest!

Thanks so much for the quick reply. I think we’ll stick with the caching. I can just explain it to the client 🙂

As for the random order, what we want to do is bring in the related relevant content, but potentially display the relevant content in a random order (instead of by relevancy). It seems like the opposite of relevancy when I type that, but basically the client doesn’t want the same related content in the same order on different pages within the same category 🙂

So if there is an order by hook or filter we can use to just randomize the already relevant results, that would be awesome.

Thanks and TTYS!

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

I’m afraid there isn’t any way, except for making direct modifications to the code. There are only filters for each individual items post-process, but that would not help in this case.

If you want, you can try a simple modification:
1. Open up the wp-content/plugins/related-posts-pro/includes/related_content.class.php file on the server
2. Go to line 1532, it should be a closing } parenthesis
3. After that line, put this: shuffle($this->posts);
.. so it should look like:

           
			$this->adv_content_field($this->posts[$key]->author, "authorfield", $this->advAuthorField, $post->id);
			// ---------------------------------------------------------------
		}
		shuffle($this->posts);
	}
}

It could actually work.

[DigitalTea15]

Hi Ernest!

Thanks for the code tip – we are still having issues with the featured images for some posts not appearing. We’ve tried reassigning the featured images, but no go. Any ideas? I can provide exact details of the post and where it isn’t appearing.

TTYS!

[Ernest Marcinko]

Sure, let me know which post/posts aren’t working, and I will check.

[DigitalTea15]

Hi Ernest!

On the page: https://www.cfertech.com/infrastructure-equipment/ the Extreme Environments featured image isn’t showing up, even though a featured image has been selected.

TTYS!

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

Thank you! I think the internal plugin cache is not cleared. Can you please try change these options: https://i.imgur.com/ZcTbdgk.png
It should very likely fix the issue.

[DigitalTea15]

Hi Ernest!

I did try as you suggested, but no change – the featured image for the Extreme Environments is still not showing up 🙁

Any ideas?

[Ernest Marcinko]

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[DigitalTea15]

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[DigitalTea15]

Hi Ernest, did you get my last reply?

[Ernest Marcinko]

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[DigitalTea15]

Hi Ernest!

I thought something was up and you usually reply within 24 hours 🙂 No worries – that’s why I checked.

I’ve just whitelisted your IP address, so you should be good to go.

Thanks again!

[Ernest Marcinko]

Thank you!

It was a combination of CDN cache and the file names. I have added a bypass to the image creator script, so that unique names are used each time a file is re-generated. The changes should be visible now – and the updated files should change after 8 hours tops.

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