Link Whisper

Version 4.0.5 — 19 October 2026

• New Bringing back the Clicks Report with a fresh new look! (Click into any post, category, URL or visitor to see which links got clicked, with a click chart, a full click log, date ranges, search, and internal/external filters)
• New Showing the post's inbound & outbound link counts in the post-save reminder! (So you can see at a glance where the post needs links, and jump right into reviewing either one)
• New Creating setting to choose which email addresses get Link Whisper's email notices! (Just enter one address per line. Only admins can change the list, and clearing it out turns the emails off)
• Improved Setting the Links Report's "By Domain" Set Attributes editor to start with the attributes the domains already have. (So adding No Follow to a few domains won't take off the other attributes they already had)
• Improved Updating the "By Domain" rows as soon as you change a domain's attributes. (No more waiting for the report to reload. And if a domain didn't take the change, it'll stay selected and you'll be told about it)
• Improved Setting Find AI Fixes to look for replacements for broken links that keep timing out. (A link has to time out at least 3 times before it's included, and it's counted in the credit quote so the quote matches the run)
• Improved Making the Find AI Fixes spending cap say how many broken links it'll go through, along with how many AI searches that takes)
• Improved Improving Autolinking for rules that point to category & tag pages. (The rule will now link to the category or tag itself, rather than a post or draft with a similar name)
• Improved Retrying email notices that don't go out. (Only the addresses that missed the email get it again, and Link Whisper waits a day between tries)
• Improved Adding the linking reminders to Elementor! (When you hit Publish in Elementor, Link Whisper will offer to show you the post's link suggestions first, and it'll remind you again after you save)
• Improved Adding a "Save page to finish inserting link" tip when you add a link from a suggestion card in the editor. (Links added with the card's Link button go in when the post is saved, so now you'll know to save)
• Improved Making Find AI Fixes remember the URLs it has already searched and come up empty on. (So a dead link that shows up in a sidebar across lots of posts only gets searched once, which saves credits)
• Improved Cutting down on repeated list refreshes in the Reports' suggestion panels so they load and respond faster.
• Improved Breaking the Autolinking redirect checks into batches so rules don't time out on sites with lots of redirects.
• Improved Fixing a PHP 8.1+ deprecation notice that could show up when "Count Non-Content Links" is turned on.
• Fixed Fixing bug that would let Autolinking rules create links in post types they weren't set to. (This happened when the keyword was found in custom fields, ACF fields or page builder templates)
• Fixed Fixing bug that would make most domains say "None set" in the "By Domain" view, even when they had attributes.
• Fixed Fixing bug that would cause removing a domain from the attribute settings to remove its subdomains too.
• Fixed Fixing bug that would let a domain be added to the attribute settings a second time if it had "www" in front of it.
• Fixed Fixing bug that would cause a capped broken link Fix with AI run to stay on "Running" after it reached its target.
• Fixed Fixing bug that would cause the Find AI Fixes popup to quote far more searches and credits than the panel did after a run finished.
• Fixed Fixing bug that would show blank rows in the Broken Links Report for posts without any links.
• Security Adding extra permission and security checks to a number of Link Whisper's admin requests.
• Security Hardening the database queries in the Clicks, Domains, Broken Links and Links Reports.
• Security Hardening the CSV exports, the Settings page and the stored link data against harmful input.
• Security Protecting Link Whisper's post data so it can't be changed through the Custom Fields panel or other generic meta editors.

Earlier versions

• 4.0.4 (8 October 2026): 9 new, 27 improved, 18 fixed
• 4.0.3 (17 September 2026): 7 new, 15 improved, 9 fixed
• 4.0.2 (9 September 2026): 11 improved, 3 fixed