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>Related Posts for WordPress</h4>
<p>Related Posts for WordPress offers you the ability to link related posts to each other with just 1 click!</p>
<p>Our installation wizard will do all the hard work for you, simply activate the plugin, set the amount of posts that should relate and press the button. Related Posts for WordPress will do the rest. Relating posts in WordPress has never been this easy!</p>
<p>Fully tested and working on PHP 5.3 and up (including PHP 8, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 & 8.4)!</p>
<blockquote>
<h4>Related Posts for WordPress Premium</h4>
<p>There’s an even better version of this plugin that comes with the following extra features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full Styling Control With Our Configurator</li>
<li>Cross Custom Post Type Support</li>
<li>Overwritable templates</li>
<li>Custom Taxonomy Support</li>
<li>Adjustable Weights</li>
<li>WordPress Network / Multisite support</li>
<li>Keep manually created links</li>
<li>Priority Email Support</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.relatedpostsforwp.com/features/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-info-link" rel="nofollow ugc">More information</a> | <a href="https://www.relatedpostsforwp.com/upgrade-premium/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-purchase-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade >></a></p>
</blockquote>
<h4>Related Posts for WordPress won’t lag your server!</h4>
<p>We believe having related posts shouldn’t slow down your website. That’s why Related Posts for WordPress creates its own cache and does all the heavy lifting in the admin panel, offering you quality related posts while keeping your website fast!</p>
<h4>Automatically link posts to each other</h4>
<p>After installing the plugin you will be taking to a wizard that will analyze your posts and link them to each other based on what we think is related. This means you can install Related Posts for WordPress on your website that has thousands of posts and create related connections on the fly, without any manual work!</p>
<h4>Manually add, edit or remove</h4>
<p>Everyone makes mistakes, so do we. That’s why you can easily modify all automatically created related posts. Simply navigate to the post that has incorrect related posts attached to it, select the correct related post and you’re done.</p>
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
<p>Related Posts for WordPress has a related post shortcode allowing you to display related posts on any position within your content.</p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<p>Related Posts for WordPress has a related post widget allowing you to display related posts in any sidebar you’d like.</p>
<p><strong>More information</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Visit the <a href="http://www.relatedpostsforwp.com/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=more-information" rel="nofollow ugc">Related Posts for WordPress website</a></li>
<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/barry_kooij" rel="nofollow ugc">@barry_kooij</a></li>
<li>If you’re a dev, follow or contribute to the <a href="https://github.com/barrykooij/related-posts-for-wp" rel="nofollow ugc">Related Posts for WordPress plugin on GitHub</a></li>
</ul>


Great work!


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The best WordPress plugin for related posts. Simple, flexible, powerful algorithm, and built-in caching. Fully setup with only 1 click!

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