Title: Inconsistent scoring between posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Inconsistent scoring between posts

 *  [gruts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gruts/)
 * (@gruts)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inconsistent-scoring-between-posts/)
 * I have two particular posts (I’ll call them A and B).
 * Post B is the closest match for Post A with a YARPP score of 8. There are 5 other
   matches (all with YARPP scores of 4 or 3).
 * But Post A doesn’t even feature on the YARPP list of matches for Post B. (Post
   B has 5 posts exceeding my specified threshold of 3. They all score either 4 
   or 3. They are the same 5 posts that score 4 or 3 for Post A.)
 * My question is, if Post B has a YARPP score of 8 with respect to Post A, shouldn’t
   Post A also have a YARPP score of 8 with respect to post B—and, therefore, be
   the best match? (I have checked, and 8 is definitely the right score.)
 * I have set YARPP to consider Categories and Tags only. I have set the ‘Show only
   previous posts’ checkbox to OFF (for info, post B is older than post A). I have
   also tried amending both posts to try to force a score refresh, but this has 
   not worked.
 * Very confused. YARPP is _almost_ working as I would expect, but not quite!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [YARPP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffparker/)
 * (@jeffparker)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inconsistent-scoring-between-posts/#post-4924830)
 * Yes, I would think that A should show up, especially if they share the exact 
   same categories and tags. If A has more or fewer, this could explain why a match
   in one direction is not necessarily the best match in the other direction.
 * You could also try deactivating or even deleting YARPP (which empties the database
   of YARPP records) and reinstalling to see if that changes anything.

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