Aaron D. Campbell

<p>There is a <a href="http://bluedogwebservices.com/problem-related-post-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">problem<br />
with related posts plugins</a>, and Efficient Related Posts is fixing that by<br />
approaching the problem from a different direction and offering a very different<br />
solution.</p>
<p>Basically, current related post plugins build the list of related posts on the<br />
fly when the user needs to view it.  Since blogs tend to be viewed far more<br />
often than they are updated (often hundreds of times more often), these queries<br />
are run way more times than they need to be.  This not only wastes CPU cycles,<br />
but if the queries are slow (which they will be if you have 1000s of posts and<br />
tags) then the user gets a poor experience from slow page loads.</p>
<p>Efficient Related Posts moves all this effort into the admin section, finding<br />
related posts when a post is saved rather than when the user views it.  The<br />
advantage is that if the query is slow it happens less often and the post writer<br />
is the one that waits rather than the user (which I think is WAY better).</p>
<p>There are limitations.  For example, since the related posts are stored as post<br />
meta data, we only store a certain number of them (10 by default, but you can<br />
set it to whatever you want).  This means that if you decide you need to display<br />
more than 10, you need to have the plugin re-process all posts.  I generally<br />
display up to 5 related posts, but store 10 just in case I decide to display<br />
more in some areas.  Also, since the related posts are calculated when a post is<br />
saved, manually adding a tag through the database will have no effect on the<br />
related posts, although I recommend not doing that anyway.</p>


Efficient Related Posts

A related posts plugin that works quickly even with thousands of posts and tags.  Can be added automatically to the end of posts.

Barry Kooij

Never5

<h4>Post Connector</h4>
<p>In WordPress, post types are often related, for instance, you might want to relate recipes to ingredients. But to do so, you’d normally have to use a custom taxonomy. With Post Connector, you can directly relate post types to post types, foregoing all the hassle of having to create loads of custom taxonomies and just allowing you to do what you really want to do.</p>
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<p><strong>Premium features</strong></p>
<p>The Pro version of the plugin comes with the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sortable post connections</li>
<li>Backwards linking (parent to child AND child to parent)</li>
<li>A developer friendly API</li>
<li>Priority support</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.post-connector.com/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-link" rel="nofollow ugc">More information</a> | <a href="https://www.post-connector.com/go-pro/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade now >></a></p>
</blockquote>
<h4>No coding required</h4>
<p>Creating links, linking posts and displaying posts in Post Connector can all be done without coding. Stuff you used to need a developer for can now “just” be done by clicking around in your WordPress backend.</p>
<h4>Automatically displaying linked posts</h4>
<p>Automatically displaying linked posts introduces a new way of displaying linked posts. Next to our widget and shortcode you can now display linked posts by let Post Connector append them to your posts. This new feature prevents the need of editing your theme files allowing you to easily switch themes in the future.</p>
<h4>Unlimited links</h4>
<p>Unlimited links, in all ways. You can create links in links as many times as you want, no limitations. Whether you want to relate one post to 10 others of a different post type or you want to relate a post to posts in several different post types: it’s all easily done.</p>
<h4>Widget & Shortcode</h4>
<p>Post Connector includes a widget for displaying linked posts. Of course you can add the widget multiple times, displaying different links and/or different parents. Next to this you can set the widget’s title, choose whether you want the child posts to be clickable and if you would like to display the excerpt for each child.</p>
<p>Post Connector also includes a shortcode  for displaying linked posts. This enable you to output specific linked posts anywhere you can type content (e.g. pages) by simply entering the shortcode. Heck, you don’t even to remember that the shortcode is. Just click the Post Connector icon in the editor, set a few settings and click “Insert Shortcode” and you’re done.</p>
<h4>Multilingual</h4>
<p>Post Connector is available in English, Dutch, German and Spanish and soon many more languages. Post Connector will automatically select the correct language based on your WordPress installation language.</p>
<h4>Network/Multisite compatible</h4>
<p>Post Connector is WordPress Network / Multisite compatible. Each site will have its own version of Post Connector and thus have it own links.</p>
<p><strong>More information</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Other <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/barrykooij/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress plugins</a> by <a href="http://www.barrykooij.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Barry Kooij</a></li>
<li>Contact Barry on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/CageNL" rel="nofollow ugc">@CageNL</a></li>
<li>If you’re a dev, follow or contribute to the <a href="https://github.com/barrykooij/post-connector" rel="nofollow ugc">Post Connector plugin on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>


Post Connector

A WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create related posts that don't lag your server!

Efficient Related Posts vs Post Connector