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Link Whisper Free · Version history

Link Whisper Free changelog and version history

Latest version
0.9.8
Oct 13, 2026 (27 days ago)
Releases
86
since 2020
In the last year
10
about one every 36 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 202027 releases
  • 202120 releases
  • 20224 releases
  • 20238 releases
  • 20249 releases
  • 202510 releases
  • 20268 releases

20268 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.9.8Latest

    • [COMPATIBILITY] Adding support for Divi 5! The text inside Divi 5 modules is now read for the link reports and suggestions.
    • [COMPATIBILITY] Setting the minimum PHP version to 7.4 to match what the plugin needs to run.
    • [COMPATIBILITY] Making Link Whisper’s class loader only load its own classes, so it can’t cause a fatal error by trying to load another plugin’s classes.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Leaving email, phone, SMS and other app links (mailto:, tel:, etc.) out of the link reports and the Broken Links Report.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the YouTube link checks so Shorts, live streams and youtu.be links are checked properly, and YouTube’s rate limiting no longer gets videos marked as removed.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the broken link checks for links with encoded characters and protocol-relative (//example.com) links.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Showing each suggested post only once in the outbound suggestions, on the sentence that’s the best fit for it.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Opening the Clicks Reports with the newest posts and most clicked links first, and sorting the title, URL and anchor columns A to Z on the first click.
    • [SECURITY] Hardening the Broken Links and AI suggestion lookups so IDs are always prepared or cast to numbers.
    • [SECURITY] Hardening the Clicks Report’s sorting, search and post type filters.
    • [SECURITY] Preparing the click details queries and escaping the click data shown in the click tables.
    • [SECURITY] Guarding the clicks CSV export against spreadsheet formulas, and only accepting the supported export types.
    • [SECURITY] Restricting which classes can be rebuilt from Link Whisper’s stored link data.
    • [SECURITY] Protecting Link Whisper’s post and term meta from being edited through generic custom field editors.
    • [SECURITY] Adding nonce and permission checks to several admin ajax actions.
    • [SECURITY] Limiting the per-post support export to users who can edit the post, and limiting the settings it includes to admins.
    • [SECURITY] Escaping saved setting values on the Settings page.
    • [SECURITY] Preparing the URL lookup when un-ignoring a broken link.
    • [SECURITY] Improving how the frontend link highlighter decodes link URLs.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing the “Only Link to Orphaned Posts” suggestion filter so it only suggests orphaned posts.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing the “Only Suggest Links to Posts With the Same Parent as This Post” suggestion filter when AI suggestions are turned off.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue where suggestions were missed in sentences that contain non-breaking spaces.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing the “ACF Fields to be Ignored” setting so fields listed by their full name are skipped for posts and categories.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue where the broken link checker could treat links as ignored when there were links on the ignore list.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue where ignored broken links could lose their ignored status if a broken link scan was interrupted, and making “Stop Ignoring” take the link off the ignore list.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing blank rows showing up in the Broken Links Report for posts that don’t have any links.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing the click details page saying “No items found” for posts and categories when “Show individual click stats” is turned on.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a JavaScript error on the Domains Report.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue where the Target Keyword scan could run with missing progress data.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a fatal error in the YOOtheme support on sites running PHP 7 with WordPress versions older than 5.9.

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.9.7

    • [IMPROVEMENT] Batching the Broken Links Report’s data reset so much larger sites can start a scan without timing out part way through.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Broken Links scan’s progress bar report the number of posts that are actually left to process.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Dashboard stats respect the suggestion age restrictions so the counts match the posts that Link Whisper is really working with.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the AI suggestions respect the “Point Suggestions to Specific Post Types” setting.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI credit estimates for orphan and inbound linking runs so the cost shown before a run is much closer to what the run actually uses.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the orphan linking process stop as soon as a post has the inbound link it needed, instead of working through the rest of the candidates.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Rejecting an AI link suggestion now sends the search back out to look for another source post instead of ending the run.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Updating the Done For You links on the Dashboard to point to the new information page.
    • [UX/UI] Fixing the Dashboard’s background color and the spacing above the navigation tabs.
    • [SECURITY] Hardening the Dashboard’s domain queries so host names are always run through prepared statements.
    • [SECURITY] Validating the saved post type selections against the post types that actually exist on the site before they’re used in queries.
    • [SECURITY] Restricting scanning and suggestions to published posts.
    • [SECURITY] Sanitizing the IDs returned by the ignored page lookup.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a fatal error that could occur when stemming Bulgarian words.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing the orphaned post percentage in the Site Health widget and the email reports, which was being measured against the restricted post count instead of the site total.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue where a completed AI review run could be cleared away while suggestions were still waiting to be reviewed.

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.9.6

    • [NEW DEBUG SETTING] Adding a “Clear OP Cache” tool to the settings so you can flush PHP’s OPcache when the site is still serving older cached plugin files or reports aren’t showing updates.
    • [NEW DEBUG SETTING] Adding a “Repair Empty AI Embeddings” tool that rescans posts which were incorrectly saved as empty AI embeddings and refreshes their AI Relation calculations.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Dashboard’s Basic AI Scan more resilient — it now detects stalled scans, surfaces errors, and lets you retry.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Estimating the AI credit cost of a linking or relation run before it starts.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI fix workflow with live item counts, a fix preview, and the ability to export the generated fix map.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Excluding posts hidden behind redirects from AI relation maps so suggestions stay relevant.
    • [SECURITY] Fixing minor issue with search filtering in report.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue that could keep the Site Health dashboard widget from loading.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing the error message display when an empty AI embedding rescan fails.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing an issue that could keep the Site Health dashboard widget from loading.

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.9.5

    • [SECURITY] Improving filter sanitization.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing error when processing Elementor-based content.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing minor PHP notice about an undefined variable called “added_secondary”.

  5. Link Whisper Free 0.9.4

    • [NEW FEATURE] Creating a “Basic AI Scan” option for the Dashboard! (Now you can run the AI scanning from the Dashboard without needing to run the One Click Setup)
    • [NEW FEATURE] Creating an alternate Relation Analysis system for large sites that aren’t able to complete the standard relation calculations.
    • [NEW SETTING] Creating setting to quickly insert Money Page URLs.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Adjusting the AI credit counter’s refresh rate so credit purchases register on the site much more quickly.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Updating the list of available AI models with the latest supported versions.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the inserted link counts in the Dashboard more accurate.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving compatibility with Elementor.
    • [SECURITY] Updating the REST routes to use new, more secure validation methods.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing template issue that would keep the Broken Link Scanner from running.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing issue that would keep Divi posts from being detected.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing minor PHP error notice.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that could cause the Calculated Relations count to be lower than it actually is.

  6. Link Whisper Free 0.9.3

    • [NEW FEATURE] Creating a new Dashboard interface with improved link health stats, recommended actions, and clearer processing feedback.
    • [NEW FEATURE] Creating a new setup wizard with AI connection, Google Search Console connection, money page selection, AI credit handling, scanning progress.
    • [NEW FEATURE] Adding an AI Credit History report with filtering, pagination, credit totals, and CSV export.
    • [NEW FEATURE] Adding the ability to search Money Pages by URL and include terms in Money Page selection.
    • [NEW FEATURE] Adding a setting to help prevent Target Keyword cannibalization when creating links.
    • [NEW FEATURE] Adding a setting to ignore external links when checking outbound link limits.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Adding controls for clearing specific types of AI data. (Viz. The Relation Analysis and the Target Keyword data)
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving AI relation scoring so highly targeted keyword links are weighted more strongly.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving AI linking credit estimates and credit refresh handling.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Increasing the AI processing concurrency ceiling and batch size for Link Whisper AI sites.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Adding dedupe checks to prevent duplicate AI calls.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Caching the site model for improved AI processing efficiency.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Adding phrase-level AI preparation for suggestion requests.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving AI embedding and token usage handling for more response formats.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI connection flow in the setup wizard and checkout.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI account email fallback system so checkout and connection status are more reliable.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving AI checkout handling, minimum credit purchases, and credit padding.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the restart process after purchasing AI credits.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving link saving to reduce duplicate links.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving post checks so AI processes skip invalid, hidden, untitled, numeric-only, redirected, and non-processable posts more reliably.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving URL tracing for ugly term permalinks and Custom Permalinks setups.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving orphan ignored-post handling when an ignored URL has to be traced by ugly permalink. (Sometimes we need to fall back to that if the permalink structure is very messy)
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving broad URL lookup by ignoring attachments and prioritizing actively used post types.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving redirect handling so term URLs are less likely to be treated as false positives.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving broken link checks by ignoring cache where needed and simplifying retry checks.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving broken link detection to reduce false positives.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Broken Link Report with search and check-link styling.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Link Relation stat so ignored posts and disabled categories are scored more accurately.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Dashboard’s broken link code filtering so it only shows the default list of broken links and not the full list which includes temporary broken links. (EX: Target site had a 500 error that’s since been resolved, the break was only temporary)
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving Search Console, dashboard, and wizard processing order so AI scanning waits for link scanning when needed.

  7. Link Whisper Free 0.9.2

    • [NEW LANGUAGE] Adding support for Turkish!!!
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Adding search function for the broken link report!
    • [UX/UI] Adding “View” links in the broken link report so you can more easily check if a link is broken.
    • [SECURITY] Fixing possible cross-site scripting vulnerability.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would keep dismissed banners from staying dismissed.

  8. Link Whisper Free 0.9.1

    • [SECURITY] Fixing possible cross-site scripting vulnerability.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing minor PHP notice on the AI Subscription page when no plan is active.

202510 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.9.0

    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would keep the Debug Settings from saving.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing empty variable notice when no suggestions found.

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.8.9

    • [NEW FEATURE] Creating Link Health Widget for the WordPress Dashboard! (The widget shows you a condensed report of your site’s link health. Widget is also movable and can be hidden if so desired)
    • [NEW LANGUAGE] Adding support for Czech!!!
    • [NEW LANGUAGE] Adding support for Bulgarian!!!
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the “Show Expanded Post Details” setting in the Suggestions are sticky!
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the AI Credit delivery to better handle sites with non-standard WordPress layouts.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Creating AI processing lock to keep AI Relation Analysis from needing to update if a post is published during processing.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the handling of Themify created content.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the Suggestion’s keyword processsing more sensitive to post title words.
    • [ADJUSTMENT] Modifying the way links are traced to their target post for better redirect handling.
    • [UX/UI] Reworking and simplifying the AI Subscriptions page.
    • [UX/UI] Updating some tooltip.
    • [UX/UI] Adding a “View Link” button for links in the Broken Link Report so that it’s easier to pull up broken links.
    • [UX/UI] Adding a notice in the Settings to alert admins if there was a problem accessing the Link Whisper AI credentials.
    • [SECURITY] Fixing minor vulnerability in reports.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a potential “division by zero” error in the settings page.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would keep the “View Link” from being able to find and highlight the links in some pages.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing query bug that would keep the reports from showing items if the site had no terms selected.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would sometimes make the X button on reports disapper.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would cause the Suggestion area to show suggestions that have a low AI score.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing minor PHP notice that would sometimes happen when connecting to AI for the first time.

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.8.8

    • [UX/UI] Adjusting the AI processing messages so they are clearer.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a bug that would keep the link stats from populating in the All Posts pages.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a bug that keep the filters from loading.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would keep the AI Subscriptions page from loading.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing error message that sometimes show up in the Notifications area.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would sometimes make the Broken Link Report fail to load.

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.8.7

    • [NEW FEATURE] Adding a new Dashboard section for notifications! (Now you’ll be able to see Link Whisper news and updates right from your plugin dashboard!)
    • [UX/UI] Adding site URL to the link health report emails so it’s easier to tell where they’re coming from.
    • [UX] Making extra long titles and URLs hover-visible in the activity panels. (Just hover the mouse over a trimmed title or URL, and you’ll be shown the full text.)
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing a bug that would sometimes make the AI status popup hang around when it wasn’t needed.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would keep the Link Report filters from activating.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that was keeping connection to Google Search Console from being authorized.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing some minor PHP notices about unset variables.

  5. Link Whisper Free 0.8.6

    • [BUGFIX] Fixing password generation error.

  6. Link Whisper Free 0.8.5

    • [ADJUSTMENT] Version bump to fix misformatted files.

  7. Link Whisper Free 0.8.4

    • [ADJUSTMENT] Adjusting the content measuring tools to reduce download size.

  8. Link Whisper Free 0.8.1

    • [BUGFIX] Fixing script error that would keep suggestions from loading.

  9. Link Whisper Free 0.8.0

    • [COMPATIBILITY] Improving the ability to focus on suggested text in the editing window.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing undefined property notice during the suggestion generation process.

  10. Link Whisper Free 0.7.9

    • [COMPATIBILITY] Fixing deprication notice

20249 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.7.7

    • [BUGFIX] Fixing missing database table error when running the Link Scan for the first time.

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.7.6

    • [COMPATIBILITY] Updating Oxygen support for 4.8.3 and above
    • [COMPATIBILITY] Scoping all included PHP libraries to prevent conflicts with other plugins
    • [ADJUSTMENT] Increasing the batch size for the initial stages of the Link Scan so they are completed faster.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the Report page’s filter queries to improve loading speed.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving data caching during link scans for faster scanning speeds.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the suggestion and link scan data processing much more robust to prevent issues when other plugins or custom code create unexpected output.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the link stat updating that runs when a post is updated so it’s faster and more effective.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing styling bug that pop the Run Link Scan button out of alignment with the other buttons.
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing minor “class” error notice on PHP 5.6
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing “dynamic property” notices when loading suggestions.

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.7.5

    • [BUGFIX] Fixing bug that would cause the suggestions to get stuck during loading.

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.7.4

    • [NEW FEATURE] Adding support for YooTheme builder content!
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Automatically updating inbound internal link stats for posts when a post that was linking to them is deleted.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the screen option saving to avoid server blocks.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Making the search on the Internal Links Report always diacritic and accent insensitive.
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving Internal Links Report’s abilty to handle database tables with differing collations. (If the category and post tables had different collations, the Internal Links Report wouldn’t be able to list any results and would show the “No Items Found” message.)
    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving the post searching to speed up the suggestion process!
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing error notice when loading editing posts with no suggestions.

  5. Link Whisper Free 0.7.3

    • [IMPROVEMENT] Expanding the Spanish ignore word list to remove more common words from Suggestions. (To use the new words, switch to a different language like English in the Link Whisper Settings and save. Then once the page reloads, switch back to Spanish and save the settings again.)
    • [BUGFIX] Fixing “Unknown column” error when running a Link Scan.

  6. Link Whisper Free 0.7.2

    • [IMPROVEMENT] Improving scanning for URLs in single-line ACF text fields.
    • [SECURITY] Fixing potential POP vulnerability.

  7. Link Whisper Free 0.7.1

    • [BUGFIX] Fixing offset error that would keep posts from saving.

  8. Link Whisper Free 0.7.0

  9. Link Whisper Free 0.6.9

20238 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.6.8

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.6.7

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.6.6

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.6.5

  5. Link Whisper Free 0.6.4

  6. Link Whisper Free 0.6.3

  7. Link Whisper Free 0.6.2

  8. Link Whisper Free 0.6.1

20224 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.6.0

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.5.9

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.5.8

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.5.7

202120 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.5.6

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.5.5

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.5.4

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.5.3

  5. Link Whisper Free 0.5.2

  6. Link Whisper Free 0.5.1

  7. Link Whisper Free 0.5.0

  8. Link Whisper Free 0.4.9

  9. Link Whisper Free 0.4.8

  10. Link Whisper Free 0.4.7

  11. Link Whisper Free 0.4.6

  12. Link Whisper Free 0.4.5

  13. Link Whisper Free 0.4.4

  14. Link Whisper Free 0.4.3

  15. Link Whisper Free 0.4.2

  16. Link Whisper Free 0.4.1

  17. Link Whisper Free 0.4.0

  18. Link Whisper Free 0.3.9

  19. Link Whisper Free 0.3.8

  20. Link Whisper Free 0.3.7

202027 releases

  1. Link Whisper Free 0.3.6

  2. Link Whisper Free 0.3.5

  3. Link Whisper Free 0.3.4

  4. Link Whisper Free 0.3.3

  5. Link Whisper Free 0.3.2

  6. Link Whisper Free 0.3.1

  7. Link Whisper Free 0.3.0

  8. Link Whisper Free 0.2.9

  9. Link Whisper Free 0.2.8

  10. Link Whisper Free 0.2.7

  11. Link Whisper Free 0.2.6

  12. Link Whisper Free 0.2.5

  13. Link Whisper Free 0.2.4

  14. Link Whisper Free 0.2.3

  15. Link Whisper Free 0.2.2

  16. Link Whisper Free 0.2.1

  17. Link Whisper Free 0.2.0

  18. Link Whisper Free 0.1.9

  19. Link Whisper Free 0.1.8

  20. Link Whisper Free 0.1.7

  21. Link Whisper Free 0.1.6

  22. Link Whisper Free 0.1.5

  23. Link Whisper Free 0.1.4

  24. Link Whisper Free 0.1.3

  25. Link Whisper Free 0.1.2

  26. Link Whisper Free 0.1.1

  27. Link Whisper Free 0.1.0

Questions about Link Whisper Free’s releases

What is the latest version of Link Whisper Free?

0.9.8, released on Oct 13, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Link Whisper Free updated?

10 releases in the last year, about one every 36 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2020.

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