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WP-Veracity is a plugin we built for Wordpress bloggers.  It’s not powered by any of our APIs like our other plugin WP-SiLCC, just something we wanted to see done.  Essentially it rates your WordPress posts by applying bayesian algorithms to post popularity and influence, with an adjustment for time so that the titles that rise to the top are always fresh.  We designed for blogs and news sites that produce large volumes of content, daily.

The triage of popularity (views), influence (clicks) and time (freshness), with some algorithmic weighting should allow you to display the most interesting content on your blog, rather than simply the most popular. This plug-in is a mashup of Popularity Contest from Crowd Favorite (http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/plugins/popularity-contest/) and Bayesian Top Title Learner (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bayesian-top-title-learner/).

You can find it on Wordpress or GitHub. 

A few months ago we released a few plugins that extend the Swift platform and APIs to Wordpress.  One of these plugins was WP-SiLCC, an auto-tagger, that parses text and reapplies those tags to help authors sort content.

The latest build of this plugin is a minor overhaul.  First, WP-SiLCC now integrates TagThe.net, a great platform for auto-tagging long-form content.  Why?  Because SiLCC was built for short-form content (Tweets, Headlines, & Text Messages) which traditional natural language processors have a difficult time with.  The new changes allow SiLCC to switch between the two apis where appropriate.

There was a bit of refactoring and ironing out some bugs as well and we’ve now got a much better plugin.  You can download WP-SiLCC from Wordpress.org or find the code on GitHub.

For all you Wordpress publishers out there interested in SwiftRiver there are two official plugins we’re releasing today that bring Swift to your platform of choice: WP-SiLCC and WP-Veracity.

WP-SiLCC

WP-SiLCC is an auto tagging plug-in. Users who run news sites or aggregators should consider using this to add a basic level of taxonomy to all posts. WP-SiLCC also allows users to tag their own posts for sites that prefer a more folksonomic approach. WP-SiLCC uses active learning techniques to improve how it parses text over time.

Download WP-SiLCC from Wordpress.org

WP-Veracity

WP-Veracity applies bayesian algorithms to your content to help surface posts based on “interestingness”, influence and time-published rather than popularity alone. From SwiftRiver’s perspective, popularity is only an indicator of influence, not necessarily an indicator of authority. This plug-in calculates popularity (number of hits, trackbacks, comments), a bayes score and time (older content falls off organically) to offer a better picture of the most interesting posts on your blog at any given time.

Download WP-Veracity from Wordpress.org

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For developers interested in creating their own plugins using Swift Web Services, visit our documentation wiki.