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Anchor Block

Anchor Block let you generate internal link to any section of your Gutenberg pages.

By Jb Audras·Link·Free
4.1(8 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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As of April 2026, Anchor Block is a WordPress link plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 18K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.

4.1/58 reviews
2.0K+active installs
18K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019

Overview

Drop the anchor, sailor!

This plugin provides a dedicated Gutenberg Anchor Block so you could generate internal links to each sections of your pages.

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.18 reviews
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Recent Reviews

User friendly and helpful
by Sue Steinberg·3 years ago

Love this plugin, this plugin helped me with my project.
Thanks a lot!

Interferes with Tabs
by wp-MeMeMe·4 years ago

Just a warning: This plugin causes tabs created by another plugin to be treated as anchors, causing the page to jump whenever a tab is clicked. Unfortunately, this pushes the tabs just off the top of the screen, and with vertical tabs hides the top of the text contained in the tab.

TRhis makes the tabs pretty much unusable, so you have to choose which plugin is most important and dump the other.

  • This topic was modified 4 years ago by wp-MeMeMe.
So Needed Thanks
by jeffz8·5 years ago

When I started working in WP, I as totally surprised anchors were so restricted and frustrated. This solves that problem simply and straightforwardly.

What I miss…
by albertgorlee·5 years ago

…a list of already defined anchors to speed up entering the correct destination link in (for example) a button.

AWESOME! AWESOME! AWESOME!
by pjsorell·5 years ago

Such a simple yet INGENIOUS little plugin that elegantly solves a bugger of an issue with Gutenberg WordPress… inserting “Anchors” (i.e. Page Jumps) into pages. As someone who can edit HTML code quite well, I find it awkward how WordPress makes it to add “anchors” to any place in a document OTHER THAN Headers (Gutenberg has this built in, but JUST for headers). Trying to add the HTML code id=”xyz” to anywhere else (text, pictures, etc) forces you to convert the block to pure HTML, thereby losing the block editing structure for all else related to that particular block. So now you have to work with BOTH Block and HTML content on a single page. There is no way to just add the HTML “id code” and keep the existing Gutenberg Block editing structure for all other aspects of the paragraph or picture. Trust me, if I wanted to work in HTML, I would. But there are reasons why I use WordPress and this one caveat of forcing mixed editing styles is just dysfunctional.

Enter Gutenberg Anchor BLock! Simply add it to your page, just as you would any other block, just above where you want an anchor point, enter a unique name for the anchor, and voila… you’re DONE!

A genius of an idea for which the developer, Jean-Baptiste Audras, should get royalties when it becomes a built-in of the next Gutenberg update.

See, it truly IS the little things in life that make you the happiest!

  • This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by pjsorell.

Download Trends

Today: 6Yesterday: 10This week: 42Period total: 3K

Compatibility

WordPress5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.0+ required

Version Adoption

v0.1
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.1

  • Plugin initial commit. Works fine 🙂
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Rachel PeterRachel PeterJb AudrasJb AudrasSimon JaninSimon JaninWhodunitWhodunit
Plugin Info
Version
0.1
Last Updated
Nov 27, 2025
WP Requires
5.2+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
18K+
Added
Sep 18, 2019
Business
Free

Tags

linkancreanchorgutenberg

Developer

J
Jb Audras
25 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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