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Shopify's Recommendation Engine Has Never Seen a Blog Article — and the App Store's 'Related Posts' Filter Returns All 235 Blog Apps
The Shopify App Store's Blogs category lets you filter by 'Related posts,' 'Internal linking,' and 'AI generation.' All three return 235 apps — which is the entire category. The SEO category behaves the same way: 1,108 apps, every feature filter, 1,108 results. The reason nothing narrows is upstream: Shopify's Ajax recommendations endpoint requires a product_id, Search & Discovery drives recommendations from three product metafields, and the Liquid article object has no property that points at another article. Tags and metafields are the only relationship primitives Shopify stores for a blog post. Compared four real apps that actually do the job — Digital Darts: Related Posts, Better Related Blog Posts, Automatic Linking ‑ InterLinks, and Link Whisper — by what they link, USD pricing, review record, and whether they request script tag permissions before the March 1, 2027 sunset. Shopify documentation and App Store listings verified September 9, 2026.
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