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MB Relationships

by Anh Tran

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75 Quality Score
Active Installs
14/30

Popularity is moderate at 1,000 active installs, which limits the pool of community examples and third-party tutorials you can lean on.

Update Freshness
25/25

Maintenance is excellent, with a recent update on July 6, 2026 and modern requirements of WordPress 6.6 and PHP 7.4, suggesting the developer is actively shipping.

User Rating
14/15

Ratings are strong at 92 out of 100, though the sample is small with only 5 ratings, so the average may not fully reflect long-term reliability.

Support Health
8/15

Support health is the weak point, with zero tracked threads and zero resolved, which means there is no public history of the developer helping users through issues.

WP Compatibility
15/15

Compatibility is perfect, with explicit testing against WordPress 7.0 and current PHP requirements, so installation on modern stacks should be clean.

Scores higher than 38% of indexed plugins

About

A lightweight solution for creating relationships between posts, terms and users in WordPress.

Active Installs 1k+
Rating ★★★★½ 4.6/5
Last Updated 2026-07-16 10:00am GMT
Requires WordPress 6.6+
Tested Up To 7.0.4
Requires PHP 7.4+
✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

MB Relationships lets you build bi-directional connections between any combination of posts, terms, and users in WordPress through a simple admin UI. Instead of relying on default WordPress metadata or taxonomy, you create explicit relationships with their own database tables and can query them directly in templates and code. It fits sites that outgrow WordPress's built-in linking but do not want the weight of a full custom post type system for relationships.

Who It's For

Developers and technically comfortable site builders who need structured connections between WordPress objects, such as linking instructors to courses, authors to books, or products to categories. It is well suited to small-to-mid-sized custom sites where the team is comfortable writing WP_Query or template code to display relationships.

Who Should Skip It

Non-technical users or small brochure sites that do not need structured object relationships should skip this plugin. If you only need simple taxonomy-style grouping, a built-in category or tag already covers it without extra configuration.

The Bottom Line

MB Relationships is a well-maintained and developer-friendly plugin for wiring up structured connections between WordPress content types, scoring 74.73 out of 100 on PluginCheck. The lack of tracked support activity is a real gap for anyone relying on community help, so plan to test thoroughly and keep your own backups before adopting in production.

Tags

connections posts to posts relationships