Pagination by BJ vs Auto Infinite Scroll
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Get Auto Infinite Scroll →Comparing Pagination by BJ with Auto Infinite Scroll? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of Pagination by BJ
Pagination by BJ is a WordPress pagination plugin that enhances standard pagination with AJAX-loaded page transitions. It offers configurable load triggers, smooth scroll behaviour, and compatibility with standard WordPress loop queries.
How Auto Infinite Scroll differs from Pagination by BJ
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Auto Infinite Scroll is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Page-by-page navigation breaks browsing momentum, and losing their place after opening a product is worse. Auto Infinite Scroll appends the next archive page automatically or behind a Load More button, then restores the shopper’s saved position when they press Back.
Pagination by BJ enhances standard WordPress pagination using the existing WP_Query loop — useful but limited by the underlying query performance. Auto Infinite Scroll uses SQL-first direct queries that bypass the standard WordPress query stack, giving faster AJAX responses that are particularly noticeable on large product archives where WP_Query overhead accumulates.
How to choose between Pagination by BJ and Auto Infinite Scroll?
Pagination by BJ is a competent AJAX pagination tool, but stores with large catalogues will benefit from the SQL-first architecture of Auto Infinite Scroll — where faster query execution translates directly into smoother infinite loading. Tested against one-million-product catalogues, with a free trial available.
What do others say about Auto Infinite Scroll?
Was having a problem with a competitor plugin so decided to purchase this. Worked instantly with my configuration, literally did nothing and it worked. That's how good it was. Highly recommend it, plugin developers are extremely knowledgeable and on top of everything they do.
A must-have plugin if you use some option in Scalability Pro to speed up your webshop. But even without that, it really does what it says and makes the products endless scroll, making it faster for the client to scroll through the products.
After already seeing huge speed increases with the Scalability Pro plugin I decided to purchase the rest of the plugins in the WPI Performance Pack, including this Auto Infinite Scroll plugin. Within a few minutes I had configured the wrapper parameters and I was up an running. It works perfectly!! A great feature is when the user clicks on a product from the shop page and then clicks the "back" button this plugin remembers where they were on the shop page and saves them scrolling back down to where they were – this is something I've never seen before and I've used ALOT of infinite scrollers! By combining the plugins from the WPIntense I now have a WordPress site with over 5k items on an average server with load times of under 3secs! I really can't rate WPIntense enough. In a competitive online world customer experience is everything and WPIntense have realised this. Thanks for everything!
Articles about Auto Infinite Scroll
View all articles →- Dev Diary #4
- Auto Infinite Scroll multiple updates released – but a manual update required
- Super Speedy Plugins Plugin Updates and Feature Requests
- Scalability Pro is changing
- Scalability Pro upgrade released
- Super Speedy Plugins Performance Plugin v2.7 Released
- How the natural sort order and pagination/product count options work in the WP Intense plugin
Auto Infinite Scroll compared versus other products
What's new in Auto Infinite Scroll?
1.74.1
- Fixed infinite scroll stopping after one page when a visitor jumps to the bottom with the End key or scrollbar and a sidebar is taller than the product list.
1.74.0
- Restored loading AIS scripts and styles everywhere by default, with an optional setting to remove them from non-archive pages.
- Added keep-script URL overrides that match from the start, with `*` wildcard support.
1.73 (14th September 2026)
- Stopped WooCommerce subcategory tiles being appended again when loading more products
- Fixed infinite scrolling retaining stale page numbers, previous links and WooCommerce result counts
- Stopped loading the pagination scripts and styles on ordinary pages, so only listings that can actually page carry them
- Added an ais_load_frontend_assets filter for themes that render their own paginated loop on an ordinary page
- Tested up to WordPress 7.1
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