Better Internal Link Search
Improve the internal link popup manager with time-saving enhancements and features.
5(25 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 9 years agoAs of April 2026, Better Internal Link Search is a WordPress links plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 56K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Broken Link Checker.
5/525 reviews
1.0K+active installs
56K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Better Internal Link Search improves the default internal link searching feature in a number of ways, making it faster and easier to find the content you want to link up.
The most basic feature limits results to posts and pages that contain your search term in the title, rather than returning every post that contains the term in the title or content field — this greatly reduces the number of results on sites with a lot of content and should improve accuracy.
Beyond that simple change are more powerful features that can be customized for your particular site, including creating shortcuts for often-used links and even searching external sites without leaving WordPress!
Features
- Search by post or page title when adding links to the editor or adding pages to a nav menu.
- Includes terms…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
The best
by sdelfi·7 years ago
Awesome
by ceebeez·7 years ago
Does exactly what it says. Just install it and you can start adding links to custom taxonomies (my particular need) in the WYSIWYG right away.
Thanks to the developer for this!
And yes, it should be in the core.
Great plugin!
by Invizogen·8 years ago
As someone already said this should be in the core, does the job very well!
Essential plugin that should be in core
by susanaymisael·8 years ago
This plugin is essential. In fact, it’s vital for websites with many posts that need to insert multiple internal links, not only to pages or posts, but also to categories, tags, menus, etc. It adds excellent features to the internal links finder, which aren’t normally included in WP code (and they should be). I currently use version 4.9.4 of WordPress, and until now this plugin works perfectly. Thank you very much
Almost perfect
by lol lolling·8 years ago·1 reply
Did not work for Spotify but all other queries? Yes!
I agree with many others; this should be in the core.
This makes it so easy to search for PDF’s which is my primary usage.
Downside?
There is no “hover” support. That is all I’m missing. If I could see a preview of the content of the link when hovering it, that would to me, complete this plugin and it would get 5 stars.
Download Trends
Today: 1Yesterday: 8This week: 29Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
100.0%
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Changelog
1.3.0 – December 1, 2016
- Fixed the functionality that limited search results to items with the search term in their title after a change in core disabled this feature.
- Fixed the spinners on screens with post list tables.
- Fixed the Spotify search modifier.
- Updated URLs to https where possible.
- Transferred to Cedaro.
1.2.12
- Prevent errors with other plug…
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