Internal links are how visitors and search engines move through a site. A page nothing links to is almost invisible; a page that links nowhere ends the visit; a link to a deleted or renamed page sends people to an error. Lynkora finds all of these.
What it finds
- Orphans: published content that no other page, menu, widget or template links to.
- Dead ends: content that does not link to any other page on the site.
- Broken links: links to trashed, unpublished or deleted content, to a post's old address, through redirects, or to addresses that return "not found" or an error.
- Hard to reach: content more than a set number of clicks from the homepage (3 by default), or not reachable by following links at all.
- Unlinked mentions: other posts that mention a page's title in their text without linking to it, the quickest links to add for orphaned content.
What makes it accurate
- Every place links live counts: post and page content, navigation menus, sidebar widgets (Text, Custom HTML and block widgets), synced patterns, and block theme templates, template parts and navigation. A page that is only linked from the main menu is not an orphan.
- Links are checked, not guessed: links that match a page are looked up directly; anything else (archives, custom routes) is requested from your own site once to see whether it works.
- Clear reasons: "points to a page in the trash", "points to a page that is not published", "uses an old address" and so on, so you know what to do.
- Always current: after the first scan, saving content, menus or widgets updates the results immediately. A full background refresh runs daily.
Fix things from the report
Every change to content is saved with WordPress's normal revision history, so it can be undone. Anything that removes or unpublishes something asks first.
- Link suggestions: each orphan and hard to reach page gets related pages to link from (same categories or tags, the same parent page, shared title words, or text that already mentions it). Each dead end gets pages to link to, starting with pages nothing links to yet, so one link can fix two problems.
- Add link in one click: if the suggested page already mentions the title, that mention becomes the link. Otherwise a short "See also" line is added at the end.
- Link unlinked mentions in one click from the Unlinked mentions tab.
- "Link from here" for hard to reach pages: "A link from About Us would bring this to 2 clicks."
- Add to menu for orphans and hard to reach pages.
- Update links that use a post's old address or go through a redirect, in content and in custom menu links. Any "#section" part is kept.
- Remove broken links but keep the text, one at a time or in bulk. Menu items that point to a missing page can be removed from the menu.
- Point all links elsewhere: send every link to a page (or to a missing address) to another page, in content, synced patterns, templates and menus.
- Restore or publish: bring a linked page back from the trash with its old status, or publish a linked draft.
- Bulk actions on report rows: mark as intentional, move to draft, move to trash.
- Mark as intentional for pages that are meant to be unlinked, such as landing pages for ads.
Old page addresses
WordPress sends visitors from a post's old address to its new one, but not for pages. Lynkora records the old address whenever a published page, or a page above it, gets a new address, and redirects visitors and old links there. Redirects only happen when the old address would otherwise show "not found", so they never hide a real page. The list on the Old addresses tab shows how often each one is used, and any of them can be removed.
Optional automatic links
Both are off by default and are added when a page is shown, so your content is never changed.
- Related pages list below posts, pages or other content types you choose.
- Child page list below pages that have child pages.
Lynkora counts these links in its reports, so turning them on really does clear orphans and dead ends.
Track progress
- Scan history with a trend chart on the overview, and the change since the previous scan on each number.
- Weekly email (optional) listing only problems that are new since the previous email. No email is sent in a week with nothing new.
- A Links in / out column on the Posts and Pages screens.
- CSV download of every report.
WP-CLI
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Privacy
Lynkora makes no requests to other sites and sends no data anywhere. The only requests it makes are to your own site, to check internal addresses it cannot match to content. The optional weekly email is sent with your site's own mail setup to the address you choose.