A popular posts list can get stuck showing the same old articles. I’ve been building Top 10 for nearly 20 years, and choosing which views count matters as much as where you display the results. Top 10 tracks posts, pages and custom post types, with the data stored in your WordPress database. You can display…
WordPress ships with a search feature that sorts results by date. Not by how well they match what the visitor typed. I’ve watched visitors on my own sites search for a topic, scroll past the first page of results, and give up because the most relevant post was buried beneath newer but unrelated entries. When…
Related posts have a reputation for slowing sites down. Of everything people raise with me about them, speed comes up first and foremost. The worry has a basis. A naive implementation runs a heavy query on every page load, scans the entire posts table, and adds weight to your time to first byte. Whether it…
I wanted visitors on WebberZone.com and ajaydsouza.com to have a clear visual signal when a link was about to take them off-site. The difference between an internal link and an outbound one isn’t always obvious, especially with descriptive anchor text. I also like building plugins, so I built WebberZone Link Warnings to handle it. This…
Readers who finish an article don’t always leave immediately. They’re often looking for what to read next. The problem is that WordPress doesn’t surface that content for them by default — it leaves them to go looking, and most won’t bother. That’s a missed opportunity. A reader who has just finished an article is the…
I released Contextual Related Posts Pro in June and followed up with Top 10 Pro in September. Both plugins use Freemius to handle licensing. Amongst other things, the benefit of going with Freemius is that I can easily offer licences in USD, GBP or EUR. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up multi-currency plans in Freemius and then configure your website’s…
