Linkbraid - Internal Linking, Link Map & Broken Link Checker

Linkbraid shows every internal link on your site as an interactive map, finds orphan pages and broken links, and helps you build internal linking that search engines can follow. Don't add links. Weave your site. Everything runs on your own server. Linkbraid Lite sends no content anywhere and needs no account or API key. Braid Map An interactive map of your internal links. Node size reflects internal PageRank, clusters render as islands, and one click highlights any page's neighborhood. Filters for orphans, priority pages and individual strands. Reports that lead to action

• Loose Ends - orphaned content with no incoming links, plus orphaned category archives.
• Anchor report - generic anchors ("click here"), URLs used as anchor text and overlong anchors.
• Broken links - checks external and internal links on a schedule you control, with ignore and recheck actions.
• Redirects - links that answer 301/302, with a one-click "replace with the redirect target" fix.
• URL changer - swap every occurrence of a URL across the whole site, with history and undo.
• Domain report - which external domains you link to, with per-domain drill-down.

Strands (content clusters) Group content into topic clusters, generate strands from your categories with one click, and track each cluster's internal coverage and its loose ends. Autobraid Rule-based auto-linking: phrase → target URL. Rules can match inflected word forms (built for Polish, German and other inflected languages), respect your link limit per post, never link a page to itself, and every applied link lands in the history with undo. Safe by design

• Suggestions and rules never overwrite content blindly: every write goes through a snapshot with full undo.
• Works with the block editor, Classic editor, Elementor and Divi (byte-precise writes, no re-serialization).
• Reads ACF text fields (including repeaters and flexible content) for reports and the broken-link checker.
• External-link attributes (nofollow, sponsored, new tab) are applied at render time per domain - your stored content stays clean.
• Optional click counting with no cookies, no IP addresses and no user identifiers.

Linkbraid Pro The Pro version adds AI-powered suggestion workflows on top of the same engine: whole-site AI analysis with editorial review, inbound "find sources" for orphans, anchor governance with reserved phrases, semantic Site Focus / Site Radius metrics, content pruning hints, and Google Search Console integration including cannibalization detection. Learn more at linkbraid.com. Languages English, German and Polish included.

1.0.9

• Added: if a Linkbraid Pro license is active on a site that runs this free package, a notice explains how to install the Pro package (three steps and a download button). The free version cannot unlock Pro features by itself.
• Improved: Loose Ends now states its scope (links inside post and page content; menus, widgets and theme templates are not counted) and marks pages that appear in a navigation menu, in the report and in the CSV export.

1.0.8

• Added: a one-time request for a review on the Linkbraid screens, shown after a week of use and a completed link scan. "Maybe later" hides it for 30 days; it never appears on other admin pages.
• Improved: plugin directory description and tags.

1.0.7

• Fixed content appearing several times in the Knots list after posts were created with a post-duplication plugin. Copied hidden plugin data is repaired once on update and cleaned automatically afterwards.
• A change log copied together with a duplicated post can no longer be undone on the copy.

1.0.6

• Database tables no longer rely on DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (unsupported before MySQL 5.6.5): timestamps are written explicitly by the plugin, so activation completes on older MySQL/MariaDB servers too.

1.0.5

• Activation never calls wp_die(): missing requirements are reported via a persistent admin notice instead, and the required PHP extensions (mbstring, dom) are declared in the plugin header.
• Admin query parameters that trigger actions are now verified with a WordPress nonce.

1.0.4

• Review-feedback round: stricter input sanitization across the admin and AJAX surfaces.
• The package no longer bundles translation files - translate.wordpress.org delivers languages.
• The paid version's AI and Search Console code paths are no longer present in the free package.
• Activation no longer deactivates any other plugin.
• Added the External services section to this readme.

1.0.3

• Neutral example phrases in placeholders (Autobraid rule and Strands name fields).

1.0.2

• Fixed the Braid Map tooltip appearing far from the cursor on scrolled pages - it now follows the pointer and stays inside the viewport.

1.0.1

• The Braid Map now fills from the plain link scan - every scanned post appears on the map immediately.
• Fixed the setup flow staying reachable during license/opt-in activation.
• Added the affiliate program application form to the plugin menu.

1.0.0

• First public release: Braid Map, link reports (orphans, anchors, broken links, redirects, domains), URL changer with undo, Strands content clusters, Autobraid rule-based linking with inflection support, external-link attributes, privacy-friendly click counting.