Best relation plugins for WordPress
The most popular relation plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Relations Post Types leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Content Relations (10+) and detabess (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “relation” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 relation plugins
- 1.Relations Post Types
The most installed relation plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 2.
Content Relations10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
detabess10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “relation”
Relations Post Types
Down in the last 7 days:10#11,933by Amaury Balmer13 years ago
This plugin allow to build relation between 2 custom types (posts, page, custom), very useful for manage related content on CMS type website.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Content Relations
#32,955by Palasthotel GmbH1 month ago
Relate posts to other posts, edit them in the block editor sidebar or a meta box, and show them with a Related content block or on the REST API.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

detabess
Down in the last 7 days:1,774#46,469by Kura10 days ago
投稿ページにオリジナルの検索項目を追加することで、パワフルな検索機能が簡単に実現できます。 Once you customized your original search lists on post pages, convenience level of searching will boost …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day