TapToLink — Highlight Link Finder

Description

TapToLink lets you link anything while you write, without leaving the sentence you are in.

1. Highlight a phrase in a post or page.
2. Tap the TapToLink button that appears right next to your selection, or the TapToLink button next to Link in the toolbar (or press Ctrl+Shift+L, Cmd+Shift+L on a Mac).
3. Tap a suggestion. The highlight becomes a link.

There is nothing to set up: no rules, no keyword lists, no CSV files.

Suggestions from your own site. TapToLink looks at your published posts and pages and ranks them in this order: an exact title match first, then titles that contain the phrase, then tag or category matches, then posts that mention the phrase in their text. Newer posts win ties, and the post you are editing never suggests itself. It understands everyday writing: capital letters, straight and curly apostrophes, possessives (“Freddy’s glove” suggests the Freddy page), a missing “The” or “A”, and years (“Halloween 2018” finds “Halloween (2018)”). Each row shows the title, the type (post or page) and the date, and the top suggestion is marked “Best match” (screen readers hear it too). Only published posts and pages are ever suggested, never drafts, pending, private, scheduled or trashed ones, even if another plugin widens WordPress’s queries.

Forgiving. A typo or an extra letter doesn’t leave you with an empty box: if no title or tag matches, TapToLink shows the closest titles instead (“Freddyy” still finds “Freddy Krueger”), clearly labelled as closest matches. This reuses the posts it already looked at, so it costs no extra searching.

Search and paste in the same box. If the suggestions aren’t what you want, type a word or two to search your posts and pages, or paste any address (on your site or anywhere else). TapToLink checks that it looks like a real link before it applies it. Pasted links open in a new tab by default (with rel="noopener noreferrer"); untick “Open in new tab” under the paste field for a same-tab link. If nothing matches, the box opens with search and paste instead of an error.

Edit a link you already made. Put the cursor in a link (or select its words) and open TapToLink: the paste field shows the link’s current address and “Open in new tab” shows how it opens now. Change either and press Link, and TapToLink updates that same link in place. Pick another suggestion to point it somewhere else. To remove a link, use My Links (the picker says so: “To remove a link later, use TapToLink -> My Links.”)

Phone-first. As soon as you select words, a TapToLink button appears near the selection (beside the text column on a desktop, so it never covers the next line); on a phone it sits just above the on-screen keyboard, so it is there even when the editor toolbar has scrolled out of view. On small screens the picker slides up from the bottom as a sheet and keeps your highlighted words visible above it. When the keyboard is open, the whole picker (search field, results and buttons) lifts into the space above the keyboard, and the results list scrolls inside it. Tap targets are big (44px or more). On some phones — iPhones especially — a single tap only places the cursor: double-tap the word to select it, and the button appears.

Both editors. A format button in the block editor; a toolbar button in the classic editor’s Visual tab and a Quicktags button in its Text tab. With nothing selected, TapToLink opens search-first and inserts the page title as the link text.

Accessible. Keyboard shortcut, arrow keys to move through results, Enter to apply, Escape to close. Results are announced to screen readers.

Your links, in one place. Every link TapToLink makes is listed under TapToLink > My Links with its post, text, address, date and status. Remove turns that one link back into plain text in its post: the words stay, only the link goes, and the notice has an Undo link that puts it back exactly as it was. If the passage was edited by hand and the link can’t be found, TapToLink says so and links you to the post. It never guesses and never changes anything else. Never track down a stupid link again.

Light. TapToLink loads nothing on your public site. It only runs in the editor and its own admin screens. Searches use WordPress’s own post search and return in milliseconds even on large sites.

Links stay standard. TapToLink makes exactly the link WordPress would make. Links to suggested posts and pages open in the same tab with no extra rel attributes; only pasted links get the new-tab attributes, and only while “Open in new tab” is ticked. Your existing content, links and editor tools are never changed or removed, except a link you reopen in TapToLink and update yourself.

TapToLink Pro

Linking is free forever. TapToLink Pro is a separate add-on plugin, sold through our store at https://lockerforge.com/ — it is not an unlock inside this plugin, and this plugin contains no locked or disabled features. Pro removes repetitive work and reports on your whole site:

• Smart outside links: TapToLink fetches the page title for link text and applies your saved defaults (new tab, nofollow, sponsored).
• Link library and favorites: your most-used links in two taps, with affiliate tags added automatically.
• Orphan finder and stats: pages nothing links to yet, and your most-linked pages.
• Link health: a warning when a page you linked to is deleted, unpublished or renamed.
• Bulk link pass: scan a whole draft and approve suggested links one by one.

Privacy. This plugin makes no external HTTP requests and has no tracking or telemetry. It stores only the link log described above.