About this plugin
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 an img tag 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.