Link Whisper
by Link Whisper
Suggests internal links as you write and reports orphaned posts so your best pages get linked from the rest of the site.
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What Link Whisper does
Suggests internal links as you write and reports orphaned posts so your best pages get linked from the rest of the site.
It sits in the seo part of a WordPress stack and is sold by Link Whisper on a premium basis. We recommend it in our seo guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.
Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.
Real user ratings
Score
4.1/5
Reviews
145
Active installs
30,000+
Downloads
984K
Latest version
0.9.7
Last updated
2026-08-18
These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 0.9.7, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.5/5.
Where Link Whisper ranks elsewhere
Link Whisper does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.
What changed in the latest version
- [IMPROVEMENT] Batching the Broken Links Report's data reset so much larger sites can start a scan without timing out part way through.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Broken Links scan's progress bar report the number of posts that are actually left to process.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Dashboard stats respect the suggestion age restrictions so the counts match the posts that Link Whisper is really working with.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Making the AI suggestions respect the "Point Suggestions to Specific Post Types" setting.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI credit estimates for orphan and inbound linking runs so the cost shown before a run is much closer to what the run actually uses.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Making the orphan linking process stop as soon as a post has the inbound link it needed, instead of working through the rest of the candidates.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Rejecting an AI link suggestion now sends the search back out to look for another source post instead of ending the run.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Updating the Done For You links on the Dashboard to point to the new information page.
- [NEW DEBUG SETTING] Adding a "Clear OP Cache" tool to the settings so you can flush PHP's OPcache when the site is still serving older cached plugin files or reports aren't showing updates.
- [NEW DEBUG SETTING] Adding a "Repair Empty AI Embeddings" tool that rescans posts which were incorrectly saved as empty AI embeddings and refreshes their AI Relation calculations.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Dashboard's Basic AI Scan more resilient - it now detects stalled scans, surfaces errors, and lets you retry.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Estimating the AI credit cost of a linking or relation run before it starts.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI fix workflow with live item counts, a fix preview, and the ability to export the generated fix map.
- [IMPROVEMENT] Excluding posts hidden behind redirects from AI relation maps so suggestions stay relevant.
- [SECURITY] Fixing minor issue with search filtering in report.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue that could keep the Site Health dashboard widget from loading.
- [SECURITY] Improving filter sanitization.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing error when processing Elementor-based content.
- [BUGFIX] Fixing minor PHP notice about an undefined variable called "added_secondary".
Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog
Pros and cons
- Internal linking at scale
- Paid support and updates from the vendor
- Actively maintained and used on production sites we test
- Suggestions still need human review
- Renewal cost is annual and per site
How to use it
- 1Import existing metadata if you are switching from another SEO plugin.
- 2Set your site title pattern, default social image and organisation schema.
- 3Disable modules you will not use so the admin stays fast.
- 4Submit the generated sitemap in Google Search Console.
- 5Spot-check twenty URLs for correct titles, descriptions and canonicals.
How it compares
Other seo plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.
| Plugin | Our rating | WordPress.org | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Link Whisper | 4.5 | 4.1 (145) | Premium | Internal linking at scale |
| AIOSEO | 4.6 | n/a | Freemium | Broad feature coverage in one place |
| AIOSEO Writing Assistant | 4.2 | n/a | Premium | Competitor-based content scoring |
| All in One SEO | 4.6 | 4.7 (5,205) | Freemium | Local SEO and redirects included |
| Broken Link Checker | 3.8 | 3.8 (605) | Freemium | Finds link rot across years of archives |
| Rank Math | 4.8 | 4.8 (7,499) | Freemium | Adds no stylesheet and almost no script to the frontend |
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