Link Manager - Analyze, Automate, and Monitor Links

Link Manager is a WordPress plugin that gives you visibility into your internal linking structure, estimates link equity across your content, and automatically converts keywords into links. The plugin adds to WordPress the following features:

• A Dashboard with dedicated reports for internal links, external links grouped by domain, and automatic links
• An interactive Link Graph that displays the link structure of your website
• Link equity analysis
• An algorithm that evaluates the internal links optimization status
• Link statistics for each post directly in the WordPress post listing
• Automatic keyword-based link creation with granular targeting and matching options
• Export of automatic link rules, categories, and target groups

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/daext-autolinks-manager/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress Plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.

1. Analyze your internal links The plugin provides dedicated tools to help you monitor and improve your internal linking:

• The Dashboard gives you an overview of your content, internal links, automatic links, and the external domains your content links to.
• The Link Graph tab of the Dashboard displays the link structure of your website as an interactive graph.
• The Link Equity menu provides an estimate of the link equity accumulated by every URL linked in your content.
• The Link Stats column in the post listing displays the link statistics of each post.

Use the filter and search tools in each menu to quickly find specific posts or sort the data by any available metric. 2. Automate keyword-based linking Open the Auto Link Rules menu to define the keywords you want to convert into links and the target URLs they should point to. Organize your rules with categories and target groups to manage complex setups. 3. Optimize the number of internal links While editing a post, use the Internal Links Optimization panel to receive real-time information about the optimization of the article you are working on. For detailed guidance and advanced configuration, visit the official Knowledge Base.

1.10.16 October 1, 2026

• Added the Overview, Domains Report, and Link Graph tabs in the Dashboard menu.
• Added the number of outbound external links in the Link Stats column of the post listing.
• Added the Link Graph section in the Settings menu.
• Fixed an issue where the Remove URL Parameters option also removed the fragment identifier from the analyzed URLs.

1.10.15 September 20, 2026

• Added a Link Stats column in the post listing that displays the number of inbound internal links and outbound internal links of each post.
• Added the Post Listing section in the Settings menu.

1.10.14 September 9, 2026

• Improved the performance of the automatic links engine.

1.10.13 September 1, 2026

• Fixed an issue with WordPress 7.0 and later that prevented the Automatic Links panel from being displayed in the block editor sidebar.
• Additional minor improvements.

1.10.12 July 22, 2026

• The plugin has been renamed from Autolinks Manager to Link Manager.
• Added the Link Equity menu with per-URL equity calculation and filtering.
• Added the Internal Links Optimization editor panel.
• Added internal links statistics to the Dashboard.
• Added internal links optimization flag per post to the Dashboard.
• Improved the Dashboard to include combined link statistics per post.
• Added Export of plugin configuration as XML.
• Added Target Groups support.
• Improved settings organization with dedicated sections for Link Analysis and Automatic Links.

1.10.11 March 13, 2026

• Fixed JavaScript notices in the block editor.
• Improved the style of the block editor sidebar tool.
• Improved the style of the classic editor meta box and moved it to the sidebar.
• Select2 is no longer used in the classic editor meta box.
• Improved statistics retrieval queries to prevent SQL errors.

1.10.10 April 21, 2025

• Fixed PHP notice caused by early use of translation functions.
• Fixed JavaScript deprecation notices for back-end functionality.

1.10.09 November 29, 2024

• Resolved CSS style issue.
• The load_plugin_textdomain() function now runs with the correct hook.

1.10.08 June 14, 2024

• The input fields of type "text" in the Autolinks, Categories, and Term Groups menu now have the proper maxlength attribute value assigned.
• The descriptions of the screenshots have been updated.

1.10.07 June 10, 2024

• Major back-end UI update.

1.10.06 April 7, 2024

• Fixed a bug (started with WordPress version 6.5) that prevented the creation of the plugin database tables and the initialization of the plugin database options during the plugin activation.

1.10.05 November 1, 2023

• Nonce fields have been added to the back-end menus.
• General refactoring. The phpcs "WordPress" ruleset has been partially applied to the plugin code.
• Bug fix.

1.10.04 January 13, 2023

• The "Protect Attributes" option has been added.
• Links to rate the plugin have been added in the back-end menus.

1.10.03 September 6, 2022

• The "Export to Pro" menu has been added.
• Changelog added.

1.10.02 December 28, 2021

• Improved internationalization.
• Updated links to resources.

1.10.01 March 6, 2021

• Added the load_plugin_textdomain() function.

1.10 March 6, 2021

• Added text domain in plugin header information.

1.09 March 6, 2021

• Improved data sanitization and validation.
• Minor back-end improvements.
• Improved internationalization.

1.08 October 20, 2020

• Minor back-end improvements.

1.07 October 10, 2020

• Initial release.