Not optimized code

Hi.

I tried to use your plugin, but it is making a lot of queries to DB and then I refused it.

You have in the “functions.php” file the code like this:

for(...) {
	$wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_title FROM $posts_table WHERE ID = $post_number")
}

Why do you making separate sql query in cycle?

You can make just one query above like this:
$wpdb->get_results("SELECT post_title FROM $posts_table WHERE ID IN ($postsIds) ")

One general query to DB is more better than N queries.
If you have a wish, please fix this trouble and your code.

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