Replacing the related posts plugin in Wordpress

Hey,

I am using a related posts plugin which works only using tags. It is good and has worked well but it does not show the excerpt of a post and that is pretty important for the visitors because they’ll get to see a small insight on the post. So I saw a new plugin called as Yet another related posts plugin. There are a lot of features in it but the major thing that I liked was the Match Threshold feature. You can set how strict the matching patter should be. Higher the match threshold more accurate the relativity factor will be, but less posts might be shown.

I tried this plugin on my video website and the match was pretty good. The default match threshold was 5 which was a bit too high for my site, so I reduced the match threshold to two and accurate results were being shown.

A fellow blogger pointed out some possible errors like overload to the CPU but it was all fine. The script is compatible with the latest version of wordpress, that is wordpress 2.6 (as on August 1st 2008). Wordpress 2.7 is being developed now, so we should wait and watch if it works with that.

Coming back to Yet another related posts plugin, it has features like disabling specific categories that are being included and you can set the importance given to the title and body of the post.

Support is also being given, so if someone finds a security hole in it, it can be immediately fixed. Wordpress 2.3 is an example of failed security, there were so many blogs that were affected. I use a software which can update Wordpress, so as soon as the patch was released, I updated it.

Related posts is good for both SEO and for your visitors to browse.

Take Care, Have Fun

KP