BKoding – Orphan Page Finder

Orphan Page Finder scans your entire WordPress site and surfaces every published post, page, or custom post type that has zero internal links pointing to it from any other published content.

What is an orphan page?

An orphan page is a page that no other page on your site links to. Because search engines primarily discover new pages by following links, orphan pages are often invisible to Google and other crawlers. Even if a page has great content, it may never rank if nothing points to it.

Why does this hurt SEO?

• Crawlability — Googlebot follows links to discover pages. An unlinked page may never be crawled or indexed.
• PageRank flow — Internal links pass authority. Orphan pages receive none.
• User experience — Visitors can only reach orphan pages via direct URL or your sitemap, not through natural navigation.
• Wasted content investment — Hours of writing go unread and unranked.

What does this plugin do?

1. Scans all published posts, pages, and custom post types in a single pass.
2. Searches all other published content for href links pointing to each page — including both absolute URLs and relative paths.
3. Flags any page with zero inbound internal links as an orphan.
4. Displays results in a clean dashboard table with post type, publish date, word count, and status badges.
5. Lets you mark pages as “Intentional” (e.g. landing pages you deliberately exclude from navigation) so they don’t clutter your fix list.
6. Supports bulk actions — mark or unmark many posts at once.
7. Works with Posts, Pages, and any registered public Custom Post Type.

Performance-friendly design

• Scans all content in a single optimised query, then processes results in batches of 50 with micro-sleeps to avoid overloading shared hosting.
• A transient flag prevents two simultaneous scans from running at once.
• Stores results in a dedicated lightweight database table so you can filter and sort without re-scanning.

Premium features (coming soon)

• Scheduled auto-scan — run weekly scans automatically via WP-Cron.
• Email alerts — get notified by email when new orphan pages are discovered.
• Bulk link suggestions — AI-powered suggestions for where to add internal links.
• Multi-site support — scan across an entire WordPress Multisite network.
• White-label PDF report — export a branded PDF report for clients.