The Uwawp blog
Research, build notes, and guides for Ariadne and Mawu.
A walkthrough of ariadne_related_content_hook, ariadne_related_content_priority, and ariadne_cron_loopback_sslverify, plus ariadne_related_candidate_query_args, a source-verified filter for overriding the candidate gate that is not on the reference docs page.
Nothing is deleted when a Pro or Pro+ license lapses on Ariadne. Custom styling, pins, exclusions, and Cornerstone flags simply stop applying until you relicense, then resume automatically with zero reconfiguration.
Ariadne offers named position presets, theme ad-slot detection, and Pro+ inline boxes placed by actual word count mid-article. The right placement depends on how long your content is and where engaged readers actually are on the page.
Ariadne never scores related posts while a visitor is looking. Everything runs on save and in capped, self-chaining background jobs that keep processing on their own, even on a quiet site with little traffic.
Ariadne scoring gets it right most of the time. For the rest, pin a specific post regardless of score, exclude one that should never show, or flag a Cornerstone Post to surface sitewide in one reserved slot per related list.
Related Products for WooCommerce uses the same scoring engine as blog posts, resolving product_cat and product_tag taxonomies automatically. One setting turns it on, and products and posts stay separate by default unless you choose otherwise.
Ariadne uses the voyage-4 model from Voyage AI at $0.06 per million tokens, with 200 million free per account. Worked cost examples for four site sizes, from a small blog (fractions of a cent) to a 200,000-post publisher (about $12 one time).
Ariadne weighs tags most heavily by default, ahead of body text, category, and title. Here is how the two-stage matching actually works, and why tagging specifically matters more than filing posts into broad categories.
A grounded, sourced comparison of Ariadne against Contextual Related Posts, YARPP, Jetpack Related Posts, and Inline Related Posts, covering install counts, AI matching, self-hosting, and real tradeoffs.
