I like it, but it needs polish

  • The Good: I find this far and away the most accurate plugin when it comes to finding related posts. Most “related posts” plugins just look for posts within the same category. This is a problem if your site is arranged in a way where category/tag similarities are not a good way to identify relationships.

    Also, it’s very quick. Once it caches a related post, there’s no sql query every page load.

    Support. It was quick and helpful and got me through my issues.

    The Bad: Design. You really need to have at least a basic understanding of css to make this work on your site. I had a bunch of alignment issues that needed to be corrected. I really feel like that shouldn’t be for a plugin that costs $40 a year. There really should be some included robust templates.

    Related Items – As previously mentioned, its very good at finding related posts, sometimes too good. However, if the plugin doesn’t find something suitably similar, it just leaves a blank space. So if you call for six related items per post, and the plugin only matches 4, you get 3 in the first row, followed by 1 plus two white boxes in the second row. It looks really amateur. You can go in an manually correct this on a per article basis, but that’s really time consuming when you have 150+ posts/pages. This is by far my biggest gripe.

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  • Plugin Author Barry Kooij

    (@barrykooij)

    Thanks so much for your review and feedback. We are always looking for ways to improve and will definitely use your feedback.

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