Internal linking guides

These guides cover internal linking on a WordPress site, checked in the WordPress code. Start with the main guide; each guide added here goes deeper on one of its sections.

Start here

• How to add internal links in WordPress

  The steps in the block editor and the classic editor, what WordPress does when a slug changes, when linking by hand stops scaling, and what a plugin changes.

Comparing plugins

• WordPress internal linking plugins compared

  The plugins that place internal links themselves, read in their code and docs: where each link lives, who picks the anchor, and who pays for the AI.