Looks like Rob has a new update to his Similar Posts WordPress plugin. The latest version, 1.11, improves the sanity checking of parameter values to avoid database errors. Since my previous review, Rob also added the ability to exclude certain authors on a multi-author blog. The text to show if no matches are found is now customizable and there is a new option for displaying links. All the options can be set via the options page. However, the option can also be specified via a query-style parameter. This gives the flexibility to use Similar Posts in several places with different behavior.
Rob has also created three new plugins which use the same infrastructure: Random Posts, Recent Posts, and Recent Comments. The random posts plugin displays a list of posts chosen at random from your blog. The recent posts plugin displays a list of your blog’s most recent posts. The recent comments plugin displays a list of your blog’s most recently commented posts. Like the similar posts plugin, Rob's new plugins give you more options (such as excluding certain categories) than what WordPress provides out of the box.
