Title: start_post_rel_link
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# start_post_rel_link( string $title = '%title', bool $in_same_cat = false, string $excluded_categories = '' )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 3.3.0.

Display relational link for the first post.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$title`stringoptional

Link title format.

Default:`'%title'`

`$in_same_cat`booloptional

Whether link should be in a same category.

Default:`false`

`$excluded_categories`stringoptional

Excluded categories IDs.

Default:`''`

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function start_post_rel_link($title = '%title', $in_same_cat = false, $excluded_categories = '') {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.3.0' );

    	echo get_boundary_post_rel_link($title, $in_same_cat, $excluded_categories, true);
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L2729)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L2729-L2733)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [get_boundary_post_rel_link()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_boundary_post_rel_link/)`wp-includes/deprecated.php` |

Get boundary post relational link.

  | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/start_post_rel_link/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.3.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.3.0/) | Deprecated.  | 
| [2.8.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.8.0/) | Introduced. |

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