Uwawp What happens right after you activate Ariadne, before you’ve touched a single setting.
The default behavior
Out of the box, Ariadne automatically appends a “Related Posts” block to the end of every post’s content. You don’t need to add a shortcode, a block, or edit your theme — this happens on its own, and can be turned off sitewide or for an individual post if you’d rather place it manually.
Why a brand-new post might not show related posts immediately
Related lists aren’t computed while a visitor is looking at the page — they’re computed once, when a post is saved, and refreshed afterward by background jobs. For a genuinely new post, the very first version of its related list is based on whatever data already exists at that moment: shared tags, shared categories, and title/text similarity. If your site doesn’t have an AI key configured, that’s the complete picture. If it does, the semantic-matching signal fills in shortly afterward, once the new post’s own AI embedding finishes generating in the background — usually within a minute or two on an active site.
This is a deliberate trade-off: it keeps the plugin safe on high-traffic or fully-cached sites, since nothing expensive ever runs while a page is loading. See why don’t I see related posts yet? if a specific post seems stuck.
What decides which posts are eligible to match
By default, only posts in the same category as each other are considered candidates for matching — this keeps comparisons relevant on sites with very different sections (recipes vs. product reviews, for example). This is configurable under Settings → Matching → Candidate pool, where you can also match by shared tag or restrict to the same content type, or loosen the gate entirely so every published post is eligible.
Default matching weights
Out of the box, matching weighs tag overlap heaviest, then body similarity, then category overlap, then title overlap — tuned to favor genuine topical overlap over surface-level title similarity. Every weight is adjustable from the Settings screen if your content works differently; see how Ariadne decides what’s related.