The Uwawp blog
Research, build notes, and guides for Ariadne and Mawu.
A 2025 crossover study measured light mode against dark mode in the same people, the same tablets, the same tasks. The honest result: no difference in subjective fatigue, a small measurable edge for dark mode on two objective markers, and a real accessibility tradeoff for anyone with astigmatism.
WordPress's built-in dark color schemes stop at the toolbar and sidebar. The block editor's writing canvas renders in a separate iframe they cannot reach, and the usual fix for that has its own silent failure mode. Here is the real mechanism, and what actually works.
A practical walkthrough: getting a Voyage AI API key, entering it in Ariadne, confirming AI matching is active, and customizing the related-posts block, including the one setting that stays free on every plan.
Everything related posts touch in one place: why they matter for bounce rate and SEO, how tag, category, and AI matching actually differ, where to place them, what they cost, and when to build your own instead of installing a plugin.
Internal links genuinely help pages get crawled and found, but claims about topic clusters and link equity often go further than what Google has actually confirmed. Here is what is solid, what is an industry model, and whether an automated related-posts widget really replaces a hand-placed link.
Real, working code for three ways to match related posts by tag or category, what each approach actually costs in performance and precision, and the point where writing your own stops being worth it.
Bounce rate means something different in GA4 than it used to, and Google has said repeatedly it is not a ranking factor. Here is the real, sourced case for why related posts still matter: a genuine behavioral effect, not an SEO trick.
We checked six popular WordPress related-posts plugins against their own documentation. All six match by tags, categories, or keywords. Only one plugin ever shipped real AI matching for this job, and it is discontinued.
On Free, Ariadne sends nothing anywhere, ever. On Pro and Pro+, exactly two optional external calls exist: Google Fonts for admin screens or a chosen frontend font, and a Voyage AI call using your own key, only on save, only if content changed.
wp ariadne recompute is a Pro+ feature built for bulk imports, fresh installs on existing content, and real system cron, with post_id, embeddings-only, relatedness-only, and yes flags for scripted, non-interactive use.
