Ariadne Related Posts Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Ariadne Related Posts surfaces genuinely related posts for any WordPress site, entirely on its own:
- Shared tags — a capped, diminishing-returns tag-overlap score.
- Shared categories — the same capped-overlap formula, independent of tags.
- Title overlap — Jaccard similarity of stopword-stripped title tokens.
Every signal’s weight is adjustable from the Settings screen. Nothing is scored live at page-render time — everything is precomputed on save and kept fresh by background jobs that continue processing on their own, without waiting on site traffic to trigger the next batch, so the plugin stays safe on sites with heavy traffic or full-page caching, and still finishes a large backfill promptly on a quiet site. Everything above runs 100% locally — no external service, no API key, no account, nothing to configure to get started.
Related posts display automatically, or place them yourself with a shortcode, a Gutenberg block, or a widget — your choice. A “Dashboard,” “Settings,” and “Post Status” admin screen (with an optional dark mode) show background-job progress and per-post status, and each post’s edit screen gets a meta box showing its current auto-computed related list, with scores, for transparency.
Pro & Pro+
Upgrading adds real body-text understanding on top of the free signals above (Pro: hybrid local BM25 lexical scoring + Voyage AI semantic embeddings, fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion), plus WooCommerce/other post-type support, full Customizer style control, manual pin/exclude, Cornerstone Posts, a live-preview button that scores your unsaved draft before you publish, and more. Pro+ adds repeating boxes placed naturally inside the article body, settings export/import, and WP-CLI. See the in-plugin pricing page for the full breakdown.
External services
This plugin’s own scoring and matching (tags, categories, title overlap) runs entirely locally — no data leaves your site for that. It uses the Freemius SDK for licensing, and two optional pieces load an external resource, under the conditions below:
Freemius (licensing) — this plugin uses the Freemius SDK to manage plugin updates and Pro/Pro+ license activation. It contacts the Freemius API (api.freemius.com) to check your license status and deliver updates; on activation, Freemius shows its own opt-in screen asking permission before any anonymous, non-personal diagnostic data (e.g. site URL, plugin/WordPress/PHP versions) is shared — this is optional and declining it does not affect the plugin’s functionality. See Freemius’s Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/ and Terms of Service: https://freemius.com/terms/
Google Fonts (Pro/Pro+ only) — this plugin’s own Dashboard, Settings, and Post Status admin screens use a self-hosted typeface (DM Sans, bundled with the plugin) — nothing is requested from Google for those. Separately, if a Pro/Pro+ license is active and a site owner selects one of the curated Google Fonts for the related-posts card styling (Customizer), that one font family is requested from Google’s font CDN (fonts.googleapis.com) on your site’s frontend. No data beyond the standard browser request (e.g. IP address, user agent) is sent to Google. See Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy and Google Fonts’ own privacy FAQ: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy
Voyage AI (Pro/Pro+ only) — if a Pro/Pro+ license is active and a site owner has entered their own Voyage AI API key, this plugin sends each post’s title and body text to the Voyage AI API (https://voyageai.com) once, when that post is saved and its content has changed, to compute a semantic-embedding vector used for the AI-matching signal. This is entirely opt-in (no key = no calls) and uses the site owner’s own account and key, not a shared or plugin-provided one. See Voyage AI’s Terms of Service: https://www.voyageai.com/tos and Privacy Policy: https://www.voyageai.com/privacy
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