Core+ Links vs LinkTiller

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 Link Health flags links to unpublished, trashed, or missing pages, but does not inspect external URLs over HTTP.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.

LinkTiller is a free, self-hosted WordPress plugin that finds posts and pages without incoming internal links and proposes contextual links for review. Its scan is read-only, mapping incoming links and ranking eligible source pages locally before sending a shortlist to the OpenAI-compatible endpoint and model configured by the site administrator. Suggestions show the source sentence, an exact two-to-six-word anchor already in that source, the target page, rationale, and safeguards. Scanning and requesting suggestions never edit content; every insertion requires an administrator’s explicit approval. LinkTiller verifies both pages again and refuses insertion if either changed after review. Each approved link receives a receipt, while Undo restores unchanged prior content or removes only the tagged link while preserving later edits. Requests go directly from WordPress to the chosen endpoint, which may charge separately. No usage telemetry is sent by default. A free v0.2.1 download is listed for WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+.