Related posts Wordpress plugin

[georgesan]

Hi,

I was wondering what Wordpress plugin you are using to add related posts to your blog posts. I would need one that allows you to pick the related posts manually and doesn't break the on-page SEO.

Thank you!

George

[BedeFahey]

Hi George,

I recently had a bad experience with a related posts plugin - I had a client site go down for a few hours, and had to deactivate it because it was causing too much CPU load. Apparently most related posts plugins run multiple queries multiple times, which is hard on the server.

(Maybe someone with more server/MySQL experience can provide a good explanation as to why this is).

I ended up going with the "Efficient Related Posts" plugin as a replacement. It seems to be working fine so far, and we've had no more issues with CPU usage. It sounds like it will do what you want as well:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/efficient-related-posts/

This is only based on my experience, though, so please take the recommendation with a grain of salt - test first!

[georgesan]

Thank you a lot, that is a great little plugin and it does the job perfectly.