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Add Anchor Links

by Karolina Vyskocilova ¡ WordPress.org page

v1.0.5 Tested up to WP 6.9.10 PHP 7.1+

Add Anchor Links has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 21,948 downloads all time. It was downloaded 310 times in the last 30 days. The last update was on March 18, 2026, tested up to WordPress 6.9.10.

Add Anchor Links at a glance

Active installs
1,000+
Total downloads
21,948
Downloads, last 30 days
310
30-day growth
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downloads vs the previous 30 days

Is Add Anchor Links well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Behind
tested up to WordPress 6.9.10, not yet with the current 7.1.3

Add Anchor Links reviews and ratings

6 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
4.7 out of 5

6 reviews

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  • great plugin 👏

    5 stars for your work

    David Klhufek

  • Why Scroll and not copy?

    This plugin works well and apparently works as intended. I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand why it scrolls the header to the top when the icon is clicked, instead of copying the corresponding anchored link (i.e."pageurl/#header-title)" to the clipboard. After all, the header already has to be in view in order to click the icon beside the header. If the plugin author would make the above modification and add an automatically fading "copied to clipboard," message, the plugin would be ideal, IMHO. ,

    gregfuller

  • Worked instantly

    Installed and enabled the plugin, saved settings and done! Thanks!

    Jan Reilink

  • Best heading anchor plugin on the marketplace

    Add Anchor Links adds a beautifully designed embedded SVG link icon to the upper left of the headings, hidden by default and showing up when the mouse pointer hovers the heading’s box (extending over the full width). Thanks to Add Anchor Links, authors of posts and pages in any writing system don’t need to manually add IDs and hyperlinks to headings, nor extra CSS rules to remove the standard link style from the headings. Being an SVG coded in-line, the link icon is stable and very lightweight. It is easily copy-pasted along with the heading when the preceding paragraph break and (at least) one character before are included (the latter may be deleted afterwards). Instead of copy-pasting merely the URL, we can send the link in the icon with the heading, e.g. in an HTML email. The link icon’s positioning is also compatible with heading numbers added from CSS counters. Add Anchor Links is compatible with the Easy Table of Contents plugin. The reader doesn’t need to scroll to the TOC any more to pick a heading’s link. TOCs are often missing, at least when the number of headings in a given page doesn’t meet the setting for the TOC to be generated. Add Anchor Links is absolute top quality and a must-have plugin for use on all websites having h2 or lower-level headings. Visitors thankfully appreciate being able to easily cite particular sections in pages, articles and posts. A really easy way to significantly enhance user experience.

    balwuw

  • Works exactly as described

    Thanks for this! It works exactly as described, adding id values to headings and showing an anchor item. Right-clicking allows users to capture a link to an exact section.

    OllieJones

  • Excellent!

    Works like a charm. Thanks, KarolĂ­na!

    tlinkowski

Download and install history

490 downloads over the last 48 days. Snapshots taken daily from WordPress.org.

Downloads per day
Add Anchor Links downloads per day06.312.518.825Sep 5Sep 28Oct 22Downloads per day
Active installs
Add Anchor Links active installs02505007501kSep 5Sep 28Oct 22Active installs
Rating out of 5
Add Anchor Links rating01.32.53.85Sep 5Sep 28Oct 22Rating out of 5
Reviews
Add Anchor Links review count02.557.510Sep 5Sep 28Oct 22Reviews

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Details

Creates anchor links to heading tags in the content of selected posts, just like Github does within the Readme.md files.

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Tags

  • anchor
  • anchor links
  • content
  • content links
  • headings

More from Karolina Vyskocilova

Version
1.0.5
Last updated
Mar 18, 2026
First published
Feb 8, 2018
Requires WordPress
4.8
Tested up to
6.9.10
Requires PHP
7.1
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

Add Anchor Links FAQ

How many active installs does Add Anchor Links have?

WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Add Anchor Links as of October 22, 2026.

Is Add Anchor Links still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on March 18, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 6.9.10.

Is Add Anchor Links free?

Add Anchor Links is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.