Title: Timeout problem, maybe?? Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Timeout problem, maybe?? * Resolved [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/) * I seem to be experiencing a timeout problem in the related posts. Check out our last exchange here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-percentagenumber-of-related-terms-in-common?replies=40](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-percentagenumber-of-related-terms-in-common?replies=40) as the plugin was customized to my site, if you’ll remember. * I’m frequently seeing related posts that are maybe 30% related (and newly published), when I know there’s an older post that’s 100% related. I tested my theory by publishing a new test post with tags that matched a separate post 100%. It worked and showed the related post in the widget, followed by a 100% match. It wasn’t until I changed the published post date to last year that the match completely disappeared from the related post. * How can we fix this issue? I want your plugin to consider ALL posts, no matter how old they are and to search for a 100% match no matter what. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-by-taxonomy/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-by-taxonomy/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552314) * Oh I forgot to mention that my settings don’t include a limit on how far back to search through posts: * ``` $defaults = array( 'post_types' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => 5, 'order' => 'DESC', 'fields' => '', 'limit_posts' => -1, 'limit_year' => '', 'limit_month' => '', 'orderby' => 'post_date', 'exclude_terms' => '', 'include_terms' => '', 'exclude_posts' => '', 'post_thumbnail' => '', 'related' => true, ); ``` * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552522) * Did you put this code in your functions.php file? [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-percentagenumber-of-related-terms-in-common?replies=40#post-7022620](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-percentagenumber-of-related-terms-in-common?replies=40#post-7022620) * Try this code for the percentage, it’s less expensive. Remove the code you have now first. * ``` /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy', 'rpbt_add_percentage', 10, 4 ); /** * Adds percentage to related post objects. */ function rpbt_add_percentage( $related_posts, $post_id, $taxonomies, $args ) { $related_posts = array_reverse( $related_posts ); $terms = count( $args['related_terms'] ); $order = array(); foreach ( $related_posts as $key => $post ) { $related_terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, $taxonomies, array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) ); $related_terms = count( $related_terms ); $percentage = 0; if ( isset( $post->termcount ) ) { $percentage = round( ( ( $post->termcount / $related_terms ) * 100 ) ); if ( $terms > $related_terms ) { $percentage = round( ( ( $post->termcount / $terms ) * 100 ) ); } } $order[ $key ] = $percentage; $related_posts[ $key ]->percentage = $percentage; } // sort the posts by percentage array_multisort( $order, SORT_DESC, $related_posts ); return $related_posts; } /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy_caption', 'rpbt_add_in_common_percentage', 10, 3 ); /** * Adds the percentage to thumbnail captions. */ function rpbt_add_in_common_percentage( $caption, $post, $args ) { if ( isset( $post->percentage ) ) { $caption .= ' (' . $post->percentage . '%)' ; } return $caption; } ``` * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552525) * This is the code I had in there, I’ve replaced it with the one you sent me just now.. let me see if it works.. * ``` /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy_caption', 'rpbt_add_in_common_percentage', 10, 3 ); /** * Adds the percentage to thumbnail captions. */ function rpbt_add_in_common_percentage( $caption, $post, $args ) { if ( isset( $post->percentage ) ) { $caption .= ' (' . $post->percentage . '%)' ; } return $caption; } ``` * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552526) * This should also be removed. (should be in your theme’s functions.php file as well) * ``` /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy', 'rpbt_set_taxonomies_global', 10, 4 ); /** * Sets the $rpbt_taxonomies global for use in other filters. */ function rpbt_set_taxonomies_global( $related_posts, $post_id, $taxonomies, $args ) { if ( 1 === count( $taxonomies ) ) { // The query for the post terms is already cached for a single taxonomy. $terms = get_the_terms( $post_id, $taxonomies[0] ); } else { // Not a cached query for multiple taxonomies. $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post_id, $taxonomies, array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) ); } if ( is_wp_error( $terms ) || empty( $terms ) ) { return $related_posts; } $related_posts = array_reverse( $related_posts ); $terms = count( $terms ); $order = array(); foreach ( $related_posts as $key => $post ) { $related_terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, $taxonomies, array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) ); $related_terms = count( $related_terms ); $percentage = round( ( ( $post->score[0] / $related_terms ) * 100 ) ); if ( $terms > $related_terms ) { $percentage = round( ( ( $post->score[0] / $terms ) * 100 ) ); } $order[ $key ] = $percentage; $related_posts[ $key ]->percentage = $percentage; } // sort the posts by percentage array_multisort( $order, SORT_DESC, $related_posts ); return $related_posts; } ``` * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552527) * I’m sorry, I’m confused. Which code should I have in functions.php? * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552531) * This code: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe?replies=6#post-7438324](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe?replies=6#post-7438324) * > This is the code I had in there, I’ve replaced it with the one you sent me > just now.. let me see if it works.. * That was only a partial part of the code that was already in there. * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552537) * I’ve replaced the code (sorry about the copy and paste error, that was my fault). * I tested it again and it’s still not showing me older posts that are 100% matches.. here’s an example: * [Post 1 (test post)](http://www.skincaredupes.com/ingredient-list/test/) and [post 2](http://www.skincaredupes.com/moisturizer-dupes/neutrogena-oil-free-moisture-sensitive-skin-4-oz/) have the same two terms and only those terms so they should match 100%. You can see one is matched on one page, but not the other due to the fact (I think?) post 2 is from last year, so it doesn’t seem to search that far back for a match. * Shouldn’t Post 2 show up as related in the sidebar to the test post? It’s not there, despite it being a 100% match. * I hope that wasn’t too confusing! * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552544) * Is this code in your functions.php file? (from the other thread) [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-percentagenumber-of-related-terms-in-common?replies=40#post-7022620](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-percentagenumber-of-related-terms-in-common?replies=40#post-7022620) * If so remove it. * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552548) * No, it isn’t. I’ve never used that filter because I’ve never wanted to limit the plugin that way. * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552551) * Ok, I think I know why it didn’t return the correct posts. * Remove the old code and try it with this: * ``` /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy_widget_args', 'rpbt_return_all_posts', 10, 2 ); function rpbt_return_all_posts( $args, $instance ) { $args['_posts_per_page'] = $args['posts_per_page']; $args['posts_per_page'] = -1; return $args; } /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy', 'rpbt_add_percentage', 10, 4 ); /** * Adds percentage to related post objects. */ function rpbt_add_percentage( $related_posts, $post_id, $taxonomies, $args ) { $related_posts = array_reverse( $related_posts ); $terms = count( $args['related_terms'] ); $order = array(); foreach ( $related_posts as $key => $post ) { $related_terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, $taxonomies, array( 'fields' => 'ids' ) ); $related_terms = count( $related_terms ); $percentage = 0; if ( isset( $post->termcount ) ) { $percentage = round( ( ( $post->termcount / $related_terms ) * 100 ) ); if ( $terms > $related_terms ) { $percentage = round( ( ( $post->termcount / $terms ) * 100 ) ); } } $order[ $key ] = $percentage; $related_posts[ $key ]->percentage = $percentage; } // sort the posts by percentage array_multisort( $order, SORT_DESC, $related_posts ); if ( isset( $args['_posts_per_page'] ) ) { $related_posts = array_slice( $related_posts, 0, $args['_posts_per_page'] ); } return $related_posts; } /** * Filter used by the Related Posts by Taxonomy plugin. */ add_filter( 'related_posts_by_taxonomy_caption', 'rpbt_add_in_common_percentage', 10, 3 ); /** * Adds the percentage to thumbnail captions. */ function rpbt_add_in_common_percentage( $caption, $post, $args ) { if ( isset( $post->percentage ) ) { $caption .= ' (' . $post->percentage . '%)' ; } return $caption; } ``` * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552552) * Did you forget something in there? Because this code broke my site. It returned a blank white page and nothing loaded. * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552553) * Can you paste and submit the contents from your functions.php file in a pastebin and post a link to it here. * [http://pastebin.com/](http://pastebin.com/) * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552556) * Sure. Here it is: [http://pastebin.com/5Q9m99W9](http://pastebin.com/5Q9m99W9) * I’m sure I messed up something due to my copying and pasting over and over.. * Plugin Author [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552557) * Add this * ``` /** ``` * above this * ``` * Modify Admin Post Navigation to allow and disallow certain post statuses from being navigated. ``` * Thread Starter [burlyqlady](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlyqlady/) * (@burlyqlady) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/#post-6552558) * That did not seem to work 🙁 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Timeout problem, maybe??’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/related-posts-by-taxonomy/assets/icon.svg?rev=1115231) * [Related Posts by Taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-by-taxonomy/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-by-taxonomy/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/related-posts-by-taxonomy/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/related-posts-by-taxonomy/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/related-posts-by-taxonomy/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/related-posts-by-taxonomy/reviews/) * 21 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timeout-problem-maybe/page/2/#post-6552591) * Status: resolved