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Practical setup, configuration, and how-to walkthroughs for Ariadne Related Posts
How to Set Up Ariadne With a Voyage AI API Key (and Customize How It Looks)
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.
Related Posts in WordPress: The Complete Guide
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.
How to Add Related Posts to WordPress Without a Plugin
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.
What Happens to Your Related Posts Data If You Downgrade from Pro or Pro+?
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.
Inline vs. End-of-Post: Where Should Related Posts Actually Go?
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.
Does a Related Posts Plugin Slow Down Your Site?
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.
Pinning, Excluding, and Cornerstone Posts: Manual Control Over Related Posts
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 Posts and WooCommerce: Showing Products Related to Blog Content
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.
How Much Does AI-Powered Related Posts Actually Cost?
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).