Content Anchor Links
Easily add content anchors to your pages and posts
3.8(5 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Content Anchor Links is a WordPress anchor plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 23K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: Hyperlink Group Block.
3.8/55 reviews
1.0K+active installs
23K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Note: This plugin is not currently compatible with the Block Editor.
This plugin adds a unique ID attribute to healings in your page and post content, and then makes those anchors available in the linking pop-up. This makes it very easy to add “jump” links to headings within the content.
Using the Plugin
This plugin doesn’t use any settings or require any setup, just activate it and it’s features are available.
The plugin works by adding a unique “id” to the headings in your content. When you open your content for editing, the plugin adds unique ids to all the h2 and h3 headings. After saving the content, those headings become available as “anchors” which can be linked to.
To create an anchor link, add the desired link text, select it and cl…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Before you downrate! Info on principle & compatibility as of 2021-09-03
by abitofmind·4 years ago
Principle: This plugin consists of two parts:
1) Automatic anchor creation for H2 and H3 when saving a page.
a) “My Headline” gets anchor #my-headline.
b) You can still manually change it to #my-head-line.
c) Warning: Not Gutenberg compatible!
2) Linker. When using “Insert Link” in the editor the search dialog does not only match in the page titles/slugs but also in anchor-names. And creates a /page-slug#anchor-name link for you.
a) Most likely also not Gutenberg compatible.
Read the plugin description and plugin support for updates, maybe the developer will add Gutenberg compatibility or maybe at least on one of the two sides for starters.
Saves time. Works perfectly in backend.
by ViktorLi·7 years ago
Very easy to use. Automatically sets IDs to H2 and H3. When adding links to anchors they appear when you start to type them! 5/5
Clever!
by Per Andre Rønsen·8 years ago
The plugin nserts #id into h2/h3 on save, and make the headings available via core link search UI. Clever!
Breaks website
by jamiek47·8 years ago·1 reply
Installed and broke my website…
Works very well!
by mr108·9 years ago
Thanks! Just what I needed, and this one does work.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.6.3
- compatibility update
Contributors
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