What changed in each release

Every link the plugin has inserted, in one place — filterable by origin, type, status, run, rule, and source page, and sortable. Undo a single change, a whole run (“Undo this run”), or every link from one keyword rule (“Undo all links from this rule”). Per-run and per-rule undo run as a background job. Unsafe reversals are flagged, never forced — the confirm shows how many links across how many pages you are about to reverse. Undone entries show when they were undone. A dedicated Change history tab.

Change history

Each keyword rule shows how many pages it has linked, with click-through to those pages in Change history.

Auto-linking

Two site-wide path lists — Only auto-link these pages and Never auto-link these pages — bound which pages bulk apply may edit. Deterministic path matching with glob *, exclude wins, no HTTP.

Auto-link scope

Enabled rules suggest links in scans and the editor. Turning a rule off does not remove links it already inserted — undo those in Change history.

Author-defined keyword rules map a keyword to a target page. Scan published posts and pages, review the matches, and apply selected links — one at a time or as a selected batch. Core Plus Links creates a WordPress revision when it writes. Undo one inserted link at a time from the recent-changes list. If the post was edited after the insert, undo is unavailable and you fix that link in the editor.

Nothing is auto-applied. Scheduled or unattended apply is not part of this release.

Auto-linking

Report internal links that point at unpublished, trashed, or missing pages. Run a manual scan from the admin screen. Jobs run in the background and drain in the admin request on quiet sites.

Core Plus Links does not HTTP-check external URLs and does not report unresolved /go/-style affiliate URLs as broken.

Link Health

Affiliate short links and other unresolved same-site non-post URLs are not reported as broken internal links.

Apply, scan, and reindex jobs complete in the admin request on quiet sites. Leftover index batches keep moving on each cron tick instead of waiting a minute between 25 posts. Tested with WordPress 7.1.

Titles, excerpts, headings, body text, taxonomy terms, slugs, hierarchy, and inbound and outbound internal link counts are stored in your own database.

Requires WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 7.4 or later. Indexes posts and pages.

Installation guide

Deterministic suggested links in the block editor. Edit the suggested anchor before inserting, or insert in one click. Dismissals persist.

Editor sidebar

See which posts link to the page you are editing and which pages it links out to — not only the counts.

Editor sidebar

Exclude specific posts, pages, categories, and tags. Suggested exclusions for utility pages are proposed for your review and never applied automatically.

Context bank

Structural gap reports from the same local index, with sortable columns and pagination. Suggestion history for accepted and dismissed suggestions.

Reports

First-run site index, manual reindexing, and scheduled reindexing. On quiet sites: wp core-plus-links run-queue and wp core-plus-links queue-status.

Taxonomy overlap, title overlap, body keyword overlap, heading overlap, link graph relevance, excerpt overlap, and related signals. Every suggestion shows its score and the signals that produced it.

How ranking works

Indexing and ranking run entirely on your own install. Free does not call external AI services.