תיאור
Internal links are one of the most underrated components of WordPress SEO. They help search engines discover your content, pass authority between pages, improve crawlability, and define your site structure. Yet as websites grow, internal linking becomes harder to maintain, and important content often becomes isolated, underlinked, or even completely invisible to both users and search engines.
OrphanPages provides a full internal link audit for your website. It scans all public post types, analyzes how your content links together, and identifies:
- Orphaned pages and posts (URLs with 0 incoming internal links)
- Weakly linked pages with poor link depth
- Moderately and strongly linked content hubs
- Broken outgoing links that return 404 or unreachable results
- External links leaving your site
- Full incoming and outgoing link paths
- Anchor text usage and linking context
This plugin offers a complete overview of your site’s internal link structure, link health, broken links, and outgoing link patterns — all inside a clean, sortable, easy-to-read interface.
Why internal linking matters
Search engines rely heavily on internal linking to understand content relationships, assign importance to different URLs, and discover new pages. A strong internal linking strategy improves indexing speed, ranking potential, and user navigation. A weak structure leads to low crawlability, inconsistent link depth, buried content, and orphan pages.
Even with an updated XML sitemap, pages without incoming internal links often fail to get indexed reliably. Fixing internal linking is one of the simplest and most impactful SEO improvements any site can make.
OrphanPages helps you identify issues like:
- Important content with no links pointing to it
- New posts that were never linked from older articles
- Pages that exist only in menus but not in contextual links
- Broken internal or external links harming site quality
- Outdated references after site migrations or URL changes
- Content deep within the architecture with low crawl priority
- Outgoing links pointing to irrelevant, old, or redirected URLs
What OrphanPages analyzes
The plugin performs a comprehensive internal linking audit and reports:
- Orphaned posts (0 incoming links)
- Weak links (1–2 incoming links)
- Moderate links (3–4 incoming links)
- Strong internal linking (5+ internal references)
- Incoming links per page (link source, anchor text, link type)
- Outgoing internal links and outgoing external links
- Broken links such as 404s or unreachable URLs
- Canonical URL versions of links to avoid mismatches
- Internal linking patterns between posts and pages
- Anchor text variations and linking context
- Link distribution across your entire content library
All results appear inside a sortable, paginated dashboard with per-post expandable details.
The plugin never modifies any posts, URLs, or metadata. All analysis is read-only.
Who is this plugin for?
- WordPress site owners improving SEO
- Publishers managing large content libraries
- Editors reviewing linking consistency across articles
- SEO professionals performing internal linking audits
- Content teams ensuring new content gets indexed
- E-commerce stores checking underlinked product pages
- Agencies providing link health and structure reports
Features
- One-click internal link analysis
- Full internal link checker for all public post types
- Identify orphan pages and weakly linked content
- Comprehensive link audit including incoming and outgoing links
- Broken link detection for internal and external URLs
- External link overview for SEO audits and affiliate review
- Canonical URL normalization to prevent mismatched link detection
- Link distribution dashboard and crawl depth insights
- Expandable per-post detail panel for deep link inspection
- Sortable, filterable, paginated results table
- Read-only scanning ensures safety for all sites
- Works with custom post types and custom permalinks
- Fully localizable
- No tracking, no ads, no front-end impact
License
This plugin is licensed under GPLv2 or later.
You may modify, redistribute, or build upon it under the terms of the GPL.
צילומי מסך
Summary dashboard showing internal link distribution and crawlability signals
התקנה
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/orphanpages/or install it from the WordPress dashboard under Plugins Add New. - Activate the plugin.
- Navigate to Orphaned Posts in the admin menu.
- Click Run Scan Now to start your first internal link audit.
שאלות נפוצות
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Does this plugin modify or update any content?
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No. The plugin only analyzes existing links. It never changes posts, URLs, metadata, anchor texts, or content.
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Does it detect broken links?
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Yes. Outgoing internal and external links are checked and flagged if they appear to be broken, unreachable, or returning a 404 response.
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Does it check external links?
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Yes. External outgoing links are included in the scan and shown in the post’s detail panel.
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Can this plugin improve SEO?
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Absolutely. Identifying orphaned pages, improving internal linking, removing broken links, and flattening site structure all contribute to better crawlability and indexing.
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Does it work with custom post types?
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Yes. Any
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Does it require cron or scheduled tasks?
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No. All scans are manual, keeping the plugin predictable and lightweight.
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Will it slow down my site?
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No. All processing runs inside the admin when explicitly requested. Nothing loads on the frontend.
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Does it support sites with custom permalinks or redirects?
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Yes. Canonical URL matching ensures accurate link detection even with complex permalink structures.
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Is it safe for large sites with thousands of posts?
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Yes. The scan process is optimized and tested on large WordPress sites.
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Does this replace automated internal linking plugins?
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No. OrphanPages is a diagnostic and analysis tool, not an automatic link generator. You stay fully in control of your content and link strategy.
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שינויים
4.0.0
- Major UI redesign with sortable, paginated internal link audit table
- Added incoming and outgoing link detail views
- Added detection of external outgoing links and broken links
- Improved canonical URL normalization and scan accuracy
- Better handling of link depth and link distribution reporting
3.3
- Codebase cleanup for WordPress.org standards
- Improved escaping, sanitization, validation
- General stability and compatibility improvements
3.1
- Added full localization support
- UI/UX improvements for the admin interface
- Performance enhancements across link detection
3.0
- Introduced summary dashboard and link distribution model
- Added orphan/weak/moderate/strong link categorization
- Added incoming/outgoing link counts