Description
Three things about a blog are invisible while you work on one post at a time:
- Posts that no other post links to. A post can be published, indexed and perfectly good, and still sit on its own with nothing pointing at it from inside your own site.
- Images with no alt attribute. Not
alt="", which is the correct markup for a decorative image, but images with no alt attribute at all. - How many internal links each post has, and which posts have none going out.
This plugin reads your published posts and puts those three numbers on one screen under Tools -> Honoka Internal Link Audit, with the list of which posts they are.
It is read only. It never edits, inserts or deletes a post, a page, an option set by anything else, or a file. There is nothing to undo.
What it does not do
It does not write links for you, suggest keywords, promise a ranking, check links to other sites for breakage, or score your post. It reports what is there. Deciding what to link is still your job.
How the numbers are counted
- Only published posts are read. Pages, drafts, attachments and other post types are left out.
- Blocks and shortcodes inside a post are expanded before it is measured, so a link written inside one still counts. Markup that another plugin appends to every post when it is displayed, such as a related posts box, share buttons or an advert, is not counted: it belongs to the site rather than to the post. Text inside HTML comments is not counted either, because it is not on the page.
- An internal link is a link to this same site. Links starting with
tel:,mailto:or#are not internal links. A link from a post to itself does not count as a link to it. alt=""is not reported as missing. Only animgtag with no alt attribute at all is.- Link targets are resolved with WordPress’ own
url_to_postid(), so a link written before a slug or category change still counts for the post it now points to. An outside crawler comparing URL paths cannot do this.
Privacy
The plugin makes no HTTP request of any kind. It contains no call to wp_remote_get, wp_remote_post, curl_init or fsockopen, so there is no analytics, no phone home and no licence check. Nothing about your site leaves your server. The report is stored in a single option, ilaudit_state, and the screen has a button that deletes it. Deleting the plugin deletes it too.
Everything is free
There is no paid tier, no trial, no locked feature and no upsell. This is the whole plugin.
Screenshots
Installation
- Install through Plugins -> Add New, or upload the folder to
wp-content/plugins/. - Activate it.
- Open Tools -> Honoka Internal Link Audit and press Run the scan.
The scan reads 100 posts per request and continues when you press the button again, so it does not have to finish inside one page load.
FAQ
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Does it change my posts?
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No. It only reads. There is no write path in the plugin for post content.
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How many posts can it handle?
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5,000 published posts. Above that the oldest 5,000 are read and the screen says so, rather than reporting a short list as if it were complete.
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Why does a post with no links out still count as linked to?
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Those are two different numbers and the screen shows both. “Posts no other post links to” is about links coming in. “Posts with no internal link out” is about links going out. A post can be either, both or neither.
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Who can see the report?
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Only users who can manage options, which normally means administrators. The screen refuses anyone else.
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It says an image has no alt, but I set one
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Check whether it is
alt="". That is correct markup for a decorative image and this plugin does not report it as missing. Note that the measurement reads the post’s own content with blocks and shortcodes expanded, so an alt attribute that your theme or another plugin adds at display time is not seen here. -
No. Markup that a plugin or a theme appends to every post when it is displayed is not part of that post and is not counted, in either direction. Without that rule a related posts box would add a link to every post on the site and no post would ever look orphaned again.
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Contributors & Developers
“Honoka Internal Link Audit” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Changed: the plugin is now called Honoka Internal Link Audit. The old name was a plain description of the function and the same words appear inside the name of an existing plugin, so it was not distinctive enough for the directory. Nothing about what the plugin does has changed.
- Changed: the text domain is now
honoka-internal-link-audit, which is what translations load by.
1.0.1
- Fixed: content that another plugin appends through the
the_contentfilter, such as a related posts box, was counted as part of the post. On a site with such a plugin every figure was too high and an orphaned post could look as though something linked to it. - Changed: the query that lists published posts no longer suppresses query filters.
1.0.0
- First release.