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WP Cache and YARPP working fine together

Just installed Wp Cache as Mitcho (the maker of YARPP) told me in a blog. Both WP Cache and Yarpp are working fine together.

YARPP does fulltext searches every time a page load takes place. Adding WP Cache will reduce that as the pages are cached. Although I am not sure if there will be real time display of the related posts. This means that a change might not appear in other posts if a post related to it is added but I have not confirmed this yet. I will do that after posting this.

Many people now are concerned that the page load time and server load will increase. I have not observed any thing like that happeing now but Fulltext Searches in MySQL tables every time a page loads can put some additional server load, although the maker of the plugin claims that this is not true.

There was a similar plugin in a forum software called vBulletin, it was called as “Similar Threads”.  vBulletin is a stable and a famous forum software and after installing this plugin, people started facing some errors. But that was definetly NOT the case with YARPP, for standard human eye, like mine, every thing looked normal and page load time was approximately the same, although I didn’t check the actual time, my spidey sense told me that the page load time was same .

I have also asked the maker of this plugin when he will be releasing the next version of his plugin. There are some bug fixes that are coming up in it. This is the good thing about open source, that when someone finds a bug, he can also give the solution. I didn’t find any yet, but I wil glad to help if I find one. Many times it has happened that a fatal problem has been averted due to open source nature of a software. But some times open source also affects other companies.

Tags: related posts, wordpress, WP Cache, YARPP

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