Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) 5.30.11

Does "Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)" work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 90.1 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
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Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=yet-another-related-posts-plugin%2Fyarpp.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=0833293e01
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.466 s
Memory usage 3.81 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → YARPP

Page screenshot: Settings → YARPP
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=yarpp
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.972 s
Memory usage 3.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.197 s
Memory usage 4.16 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.925 s
Memory usage 6.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.012 s
Memory usage 6.16 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.382 s0.364 s-0.018 s3.77 MiB3.85 MiB+ 75.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.365 s0.424 s+0.059 s3.78 MiB3.9 MiB+ 121.25 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.881 s1.086 s+0.205 s6.3 MiB6.47 MiB+ 172.62 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.718 s0.436 s-0.282 s3.74 MiB3.79 MiB+ 60.1 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.345 s0.342 s-0.003 s3.71 MiB3.77 MiB+ 63.47 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.508 s0.307 s-0.201 s3.7 MiB3.77 MiB+ 71.66 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.470 s0.503 s+0.033 s3.71 MiB3.79 MiB+ 82.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.687 s0.746 s+0.059 s6.29 MiB6.46 MiB+ 168.73 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.334 s0.356 s+0.022 s3.71 MiB3.77 MiB+ 59.97 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.323 s0.325 s+0.002 s3.73 MiB3.79 MiB+ 59.47 KiB
/0.276 s0.187 s-0.089 s4.1 MiB4.16 MiB+ 56.32 KiB
Average 0.481 s0.461 s-0.019 s4.23 MiB4.32 MiB+ 90.1 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File55.8%10,56310,24143
PHP31.8%6,0331,60768
JavaScript6.7%1,274555
CSS5.4%1,0244313
SVG0.3%4802
Total 18,942 11,946 131

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 5,063
Total complexity 1,072
Median class complexity 25.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class YARPP
Most complex function YARPP_Cache::sql()
Classes 21
Methods 287
Functions 27

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 1

Options wp_options 5

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
yarpp_widgetRelated Posts (YARPP)

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "yarpp_relatedposts": {
            "title": "YARPP: Related Posts",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 00:40:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:40:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:40:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 00:40:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) Admin Menus and Meta Boxes