About this plugin
LinkCortex takes the manual work out of internal linking. It follows three simple steps: Scan → Review → Apply.
- Scan. The plugin finds the primary keyword of every page, using the keyword you typed, your SEO plugin’s focus keyword, or AI. It then suggests the best links between your pages, with the exact link text and a short reason.
- Review. You accept or reject ideas one by one or in bulk, edit the link text or the target, and preview the paragraph.
- Apply. Accepted links are added to your pages. Every change is saved as a revision and can be undone with one click, either per link or per batch.
Built to keep AI costs low and predictable
- AI never reads your whole site. The plugin compares your pages locally first and sends only page titles, headings, opening words and the few paragraphs that could hold a link.
- Pages that have not changed since the last scan are skipped. If no paragraph mentions a related page, no AI request is made at all.
- Before every AI run you see the estimated cost and the budget left this month, and you can cancel.
- Set an estimated monthly budget cap. When the estimated spend reaches it, no new AI work starts until you raise the cap or the next month begins.
- The AI & Cost settings tab has a cost calculator for your own site, an editable price table, and a usage log that compares estimated and actual cost for each run.
Safe edits
- Only the link is added. Everything else in your page stays exactly as it was, byte for byte.
- Every suggestion is checked against the current page right before it is applied.
- Undo removes only the link the plugin added. If someone has since edited the text around it, the plugin stops instead of overwriting their work and points you to the saved revision.
- Pages built with page builders (Elementor, Divi and others) are never changed. Their suggestions are view only, so you can copy the link and add it in the builder.
Works without AI too
The page index, link map, orphan page report (pages no other page links to) and keyword editing never need an AI provider.
AI features need a connected provider
0 and newer. It does not ask for or store API keys. To use AI features, connect a provider in Settings → Connectors, for example with the official AI Provider plugins for Anthropic, Google or OpenAI.
If no provider is connected, AI features are turned off with an explanation and everything else keeps working.
Also included
- Focus keywords are read (never changed) from Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress, and noindex pages are skipped.
- Works with any public post type, including custom post types and WooCommerce products.
- Keeps languages apart on sites using Polylang or WPML.
- An “LinkCortex” panel in the block editor, and a box in the classic editor.
- CSV export of keywords, suggestions, applied links and AI usage.
- A Site Health check for the AI connection.
- No ads, upsells, locked features or telemetry.
- Official website and guides at linkcortex.in.
External services
This plugin does not contact any external service itself. It sends no telemetry, checks for nothing online and loads no remote files.
When you click a Scan, Run or Re-generate button, or turn on automatic or scheduled updates yourself, it asks WordPress to send page titles, headings and short text excerpts of your site to the AI provider you connected in Settings → Connectors. That provider could be Anthropic, Google, OpenAI or another one. The provider uses this text to pick keywords and links.
Nothing is sent on activation or when pages load, and nothing is sent while no provider is connected.
You choose the provider, and their terms apply:
- Anthropic: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
- Google (Gemini API): Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
- OpenAI: Terms of Use, Privacy Policy
The AI & Cost settings tab links to each provider’s official pricing page so you can check prices. These are plain links; the plugin never fetches them.
Privacy
The plugin stores in your own database:
- keywords;
- link suggestions;
- an edit record for each link it adds (so it can be undone);
- an AI usage log: time, task, model and amount of text, never the text itself.
Page text is sent only to the AI provider you connected, and only when you start an AI run. The optional “verbose” debug log can record the text sent to AI; it is off by default and shows a warning when you turn it on.
When you uninstall, the plugin deletes its data only if you turned on “Delete all plugin data when uninstalling” (Settings → General). Links already added to your pages are never removed automatically.
Third-party libraries
None. The block editor panel uses only WordPress’s own packages; its source is in the src/ folder.