Title: WordPress Related Posts Plugin Getting Bloated Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # WordPress Related Posts Plugin Getting Bloated * Resolved Anonymous User 9948090 * (@anonymized-9948090) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/) * Hi * I’m a long time user of this great plugin. I have tested almost all popular related posts plugin and finally I picked this one and its working great to date. * But since a few days I have noticed that the plugin is losing its USP. It was known to be the smallest and minimal plugin. It used to do what it supposed to do but now you guys are inserting too much unnecessary stuff in the plugin. * First the addition of themes, then statistics and then promoted content, etc. * And now the thing which forced me to create this topic is the addition of a new table in wordpress database. I just noticed that the latest version of this plugin added a new table “wp_wp_rp_tags” in wordpress database. * I have ditched a few related posts plugin in past because they used to insert their own table in WP database and now the same thing is being done by this plugin. * Please guys don’t make this plugin bloated. Keep it simple. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/page/2/?output_format=md) * [xdaseinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdaseinx/) * (@xdaseinx) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230159) * Hi, thanks for the feedback! * I assure you that when we develop the plugin in a certain direction, we do everything possible to keep it as slim as possible. For example, when our users wanted better recommendations—that table was the smallest thing we could do to ensure that. In short: keeping the plugin “lean” is definitely something we think about all the time. * Best, Rok * Thread Starter Anonymous User 9948090 * (@anonymized-9948090) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230160) * ^^ Thanks for the answer. But wouldn’t adding an extra table increase database size? I’m sure the table size will tend to increase each and every day. * Please provide an option in plugin settings to enable/disable the table creation in database. I was happy with the older functionality of plugin. * [Naziman Azlye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naziman/) * (@naziman) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230233) * Hello, * Before this, i’m using yarpp to show related post plugin but i want to try another plugi because the plugin adding extra table in database and the thumbnail cannot customize. * So i try another plugin and today i found wordpress related post. I like this plugin because the plugin have statistic and can customize the thumbnail. * But when i see in database the plugin adding extra table “wp_rp_tags”. The best thing is, this plugin installed in 5 hours only but make many rows (1,319 rows) than yarpp (846 rows). * Can you remove the extra table? * Other question. Can i know what is it promoted content means? When i visit related- posts.com, it said that we can make money with it but how? * Best, [Naziman](http://naziman.com/) * Thread Starter Anonymous User 9948090 * (@anonymized-9948090) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230234) * ^^ Its occupying 1.5 MB space of database containing 30,000+ rows here. * It would be great if the developers of this plugin release a new version like“ WordPress Related Posts Lite” which provides only required features, no thumbnails, no database table, nothing else. * I dont want to ditch this nice plugin but if they keep continue adding extra unwanted features to the plugin, I’ll have to look for another plugin. * [xdaseinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdaseinx/) * (@xdaseinx) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230235) * Hi! We added the table to vastly improve recommendations which the majority of our users asked for. You can download the old versions of the plugin here: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/developers/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/developers/)( anything before 2.0 is with the bad recommendations). * [@naziman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naziman/), if you have enough pageviews and the right kind of content you can potentially earn money with the plugin. * Best, Rok * Thread Starter Anonymous User 9948090 * (@anonymized-9948090) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230236) * ^^ Yes. I know that older versions are still available for download but would it be a wise idea to use an older version of plugin? Will you keep the older versions updated with security and other kind of fixes? * [xdaseinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdaseinx/) * (@xdaseinx) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230237) * We won’t but they work well already. They just don’t have all the cool features the new ones have. 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous User 9948090 * (@anonymized-9948090) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230238) * ^^ Thats sad. I really hope that you will find out another way to improve the plugin functionality rather than adding extra table to database. 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous User 9948090 * (@anonymized-9948090) * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-related-posts-plugin-getting-bloated/#post-3230242) * Just a little problem which I found today. Related Posts plugin has started using an attribute “position” in the list. Its used in following format: *