Basic Relationships

Create, query, and remove relationships from code.

Creating relationships

// Post to post (recommended: ncr_* API)
ncr_add_relation( 123, 'post', 456, 'post', 'related_to' );

// User to post (e.g. favorites)
ncr_add_relation( $user_id, 'user', $post_id, 'post', 'favorite_posts' );

// Post to term
ncr_add_relation( $post_id, 'post', $term_id, 'term', 'categorized_as' );

Legacy wrappers: wp_add_relation( $from_id, $to_id, 'related_to' ) — prefer ncr_add_relation() for new code.

Querying related content

// Get related post IDs
$related = ncr_get_related( 123, 'post', 'related_to', [ 'limit' => 10 ] );

// With WP_Query
$q = new WP_Query([
    'content_relation' => [
        'post_id'   => get_the_ID(),
        'type'      => 'related_to',
        'direction' => 'outgoing',
    ],
]);

See PHP API and WP_Query for full options. More copy-paste examples: Snippets.

Removing relationships

ncr_remove_relation( 123, 'post', 456, 'post', 'related_to' );

// Remove all relations of a type from a source
ncr_remove_relation( 123, 'post', null, 'post', 'related_to' );

Shortcodes

Shortcode	Purpose
[naticore_related_posts]	List related posts
[naticore_related_users]	List related users
[naticore_related_terms]	List related terms

Common attributes: type, limit, order, post_id, layout (list/grid), class.

Real code example (theme template)

Drop this in a single post template (e.g. single.php or a block template) to output related posts:

<?php
$related = ncr_get_related( get_the_ID(), 'post', 'related_to', [ 'limit' => 5 ] );
if ( ! empty( $related ) ) :
	?>
	<aside class="related-posts">
		<h3><?php esc_html_e( 'Related posts', 'your-textdomain' ); ?></h3>
		<ul>
			<?php foreach ( $related as $post_id ) : ?>
				<li><a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_permalink( $post_id ) ); ?>"><?php echo esc_html( get_the_title( $post_id ) ); ?></a></li>
			<?php endforeach; ?>
		</ul>
	</aside>
<?php endif; ?>