Install, configure, and use Link Pulse

System requirements, install steps, first index, and what happens when you upgrade — including the one-time link recalculation.

A step-by-step walkthrough from the first completed index to the first inserted internal link, using the sidebar in the WordPress block editor.

How to read the Link Pulse sidebar — link listings, ranked suggestions, editable anchors, and persistent dismissals.

Orphan and underlinked reports, sortable tables, pagination, and accepted or dismissed suggestion history.

What Link Pulse indexes, exclusions, suggested utility-page exclusions you review yourself, and the Free custom-field cap.

The eight weighted signals used to score candidates, and how inbound and outbound link counts are kept up to date.

Symptom-first fixes for the sidebar, suggestions, and indexing, organised by what you observe rather than by the underlying cause.

What Link Pulse stores in the WordPress database, and exactly what happens to that data on deactivation and on uninstall.