Install, configure, and use Core+ Links

System requirements, WordPress.org or ZIP install, first index, and what happens when you update — 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 Core Plus Links sidebar — link listings, ranked suggestions, editable anchors, and persistent dismissals.

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

Keyword rules, scan, review, and apply selected links. Change history undo, per-rule footprint, and nothing written until you confirm.

Find internal links to unpublished, trashed, or missing pages. Manual scan. External URLs and /go/ short links are not checked.

Every link Core Plus Links inserted, with undo per change, per run, or per rule — and honest handling when a post was edited since.

What Core Plus Links indexes, exclusions, suggested utility-page exclusions you review yourself, and taxonomies — Free covers posts and pages only.

Only auto-link these pages and Never auto-link these pages — path lists that bound which sources bulk apply may edit.

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, indexing, Auto-linking undo, and Link Health scope.

What Core Plus Links stores in the WordPress database, and exactly what happens to that data on deactivation and on uninstall.