GlobalDev Internal Links
GlobalDev Internal Links adds internal links while WordPress renders eligible singular content. It does not rewrite the content stored in the database and does not require an external service.
The plugin first looks for complete published titles. It can also generate conservative multi-word phrases from those titles, which makes automatic linking more useful when normal articles mention a subject without repeating another article’s complete headline.
When no safe inline phrase exists, the optional related-content fallback can append a compact list selected from shared categories, tags, and meaningful title terms. This is useful for older or placeholder content where no suitable anchor phrase appears inside the paragraphs.
Controlled automatic linking:
- Keeps full-title matching as the strongest signal.
- Generates only multi-word title phrases; it does not create arbitrary single-word anchors.
- Uses taxonomy and title-term relevance to resolve ambiguous phrases.
- Skips a phrase when multiple destinations remain equally ambiguous.
- Keeps one stable canonical destination when duplicate published titles exist.
- Never links an item to itself.
- Uses each inline destination no more than once on the same page.
- Skips headings, existing links, scripts, styles, code, preformatted content, form controls, and buttons.
- Leaves the stored WordPress editor content unchanged.
Features
- Set a maximum number of inline links per item.
- Set a minimum target-title word count.
- Enable or disable smart multi-word title phrases.
- Enable or disable visible inline-link highlighting.
- Enable a related-content fallback when no inline phrase can be linked.
- Choose how many fallback related links to show.
- Choose which public post types are scanned and used as destinations.
- Exclude specific post or page IDs.
- Cache targets and matching phrases for performance.
- Clear the cache automatically when relevant content or settings change.
- Manually clear the cache after imports, migrations, or direct database changes.
- Use a responsive explanatory dashboard under Settings > Internal Links.