Core+ Links vs Link Manager

Core+ Links is a self-hosted WordPress plugin that finds and manages internal links using a local index of site content. In the Gutenberg block editor, its sidebar ranks possible destinations with eight weighted signals and shows match strength. You can revise anchor text, insert a suggestion in one click, or dismiss it. Keyword rules scan pages for matches that you review before applying. A change history can undo one edit, a complete run, or links created by a keyword rule. Reports identify orphan pages without inbound links and underlinked pages with fewer links than their importance calls for. Link Health flags links to unpublished, trashed, or missing pages, but does not inspect external URLs over HTTP. Indexing, ranking, auto-linking, and Link Health run on your server and database. The free plan is permanent and includes background indexing and scheduled reindexing. Requirements are WordPress 6.6+, PHP 7.4+, and Gutenberg. Upcoming Pro plans have no listed prices.

Link Manager is a WordPress plugin for publishers who need to monitor and organize links. Its dashboard shows per-post internal links, inbound links, optimization status, click counts, and automatic links. In the editor, it suggests posts to connect using title overlap, shared categories, tags, and post type. The Pro broken-link checker scans URLs in published content and records HTTP responses such as 404 errors, redirects, and server failures. Click tracking stores the source post, destination URL, anchor text, and click date and time. Automatic-link rules can target post types, categories, and tags, with limits for each rule. Tables can be exported as CSV, and configuration can be exported as XML. A free version with part of the functionality is available on WordPress.org; paid plans start at $59 a year. It runs on self-hosted WordPress, requiring WordPress 5.9 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.