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YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

by YARPP · SEO

The best WordPress plugin for displaying related posts. Simple and flexible, with a powerful proven algorithm and inbuilt caching.

⚠ Stale
How scoring works →
64 Health · C
Maintenance 32/100
Rating quality 95/100
Support 70/100

64 health vs 64 average across 1,223 SEO plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

69 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 40/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 95/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 0/100

To rank higher: Last updated 652 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-7% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

6.7K

now · peak 144.0K

6.8K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

YARPP · #401 you Contextual Related P · #723 Related Posts by Tax · #1696 Bulk Post Update Dat · #1822

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

68per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

1.8y ago

latest release · v5.30.11

252

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

5.30.11 · 1.8y ago5.30.10 · 2.5y ago5.30.9 · 2.8y ago5.30.8 · 2.8y ago5.30.7 · 2.8y ago5.30.6 · 3.0y ago5.30.5 · 3.1y ago5.30.4 · 3.1y ago5.30.3 · 3.3y ago5.30.2 · 3.6y ago5.30.1 · 3.8y ago5.27.8 · 4.1y ago5.27.7 · 4.8y ago5.27.6 · 4.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v5.30 84%
v5.3 0%
Older / other versions 16%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
100K–200K ≈140K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-12-19 · 1,500 observations

100KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
5.30.11
Last updated
1.8y ago
Added
2008-01-02 · 18 yrs old
Requires WP
3.7
Tested up to
6.7.7
Requires PHP
5.3

Recent reviews

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  1. CharlieHamu
    2mo ago

    Various options for what similarities to emphasize.

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  2. bug5024
    2mo ago

    問題なく動作しています。

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  3. wporg1955
    2mo ago

    Отличный плагин! Удобный и функциональный! Рекомендую!

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  4. JesusDR
    2mo ago

    By easily promoting withing your won website your other related posts, your reader amy find the information that is seeking for, while reading from post to post, and staying in your site

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  5. spoc42
    2mo ago

    I love plugins that do what they say they’ll do without fuss and without having to faff around trying to get the settings just right.

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  6. sourixx
    3mo ago

    We use it on our 5 thousands+ post blog and we are very happy with it – THANKS a LOT for your plugin

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  7. kwholley63
    3mo ago

    Not much more you can say other than it was easy and does what I needed.

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  8. satinder85
    4mo ago

    Works good

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 5.30.11 Bugfix: Resolves minor Unauthenticated Broken Access Control bug Tested on WordPress 6.7 5.30.11
  2. Version 5.30.10 Bugfix: Resolves stored Cross-Site Scripting bug 5.30.10
  3. Version 5.30.9 Enhancement: Better input sanitization for a more predictable output Enhancement: Misc performance improvements 5.30.9
  4. Version 5.30.8 Enhancement : Adds ability to set sort order to Random from the YARPP Admin UI 5.30.8
  5. Version 5.30.7 Tested on WordPress 6.4 Bugfix: Fixes PHP 8.2 warnings that were filling up server logs 5.30.7
  6. Version 5.30.6 Tested on WordPress 6.3 5.30.6

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

8 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2024-08-26 CVE-2024-43919 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.30.10 Patched in 5.30.11
  2. 2024-06-18 CVE-2023-6495 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.30.9 Patched in 5.30.10
  3. 2024-02-20 CVE-2024-0602 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.30.9 Patched in 5.30.10
  4. 2023-07-17 CVE-2023-2433 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.30.3 Patched in 5.30.4
  5. 2023-04-25 CVE-2023-0579 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects < 5.30.3 Patched in 5.30.3
  6. 2023-04-18 CVE-2022-45374 Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') Affects <= 5.30.4 Patched in 5.30.5
  7. 2023-01-19 CVE-2022-4471 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.30.2 Patched in 5.30.3
  8. 2015-05-08 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 4.2.5 Patched in 4.2.5

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 57 languages, 14 at 90% or more

Catalan 100%
Dutch 100%
Dutch (Formal) 100%
Japanese 100%
Korean 100%
Russian 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Ukrainian 100%
French (France) 99%
Spanish (Colombia) 99%
Spanish (Ecuador) 99%
Spanish (Venezuela) 99%
Swedish 90%
Italian 41%
German 40%
Chinese (China) 32%
Czech 28%
English (Canada) 28%
Galician 28%
Croatian 26%
English (UK) 26%
Polish 26%
Hebrew 25%

Plus 33 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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