Advanced (Power-User Settings)

Debug, support, danger-zone, and multi-site linking. If you're unsure what something does, leave it at the default.

Get there

Linkilo → Settings → Advanced (under the Advanced group in the Settings sidebar). The same group holds Licensing and Diagnostics, covered further down.

The top of the page shows a Power user scope badge: "Debug, support, and danger-zone settings. If you're unsure what something does, leave it at the default."

The page has three cards.

Card 1: Connected sites (cross-site linking)

If you run more than one WordPress site, Linkilo can suggest links from one to the other. Each site needs Linkilo 3.0 or later with an active licence. Connected sites share the titles and addresses of their published posts and pages, and nothing else.

Set it up

1. On both sites, go to Linkilo → Settings → Advanced, switch Enable cross-site linking to On in the Connected sites card, and click Save Settings.
2. On the first site, enter the other site's home address under Add a site and click Send connection request.
3. On the other site, click Accept, either in the Linkilo: another site wants to connect notice or under Requests from other sites in its Connected sites card. Requests stay open for 2 days.
4. Back on the first site, click Import now on the new row.

Manage connected sites

Each connected site has a row with its status (Connected, Waiting for the other site to accept, Request expired, Declined by the other site, Needs reconnecting or Not connected), the number of imported posts and the last import time. The buttons are Import now, Pause suggestions / Resume suggestions and Remove (Cancel request while a request is waiting). Linkilo imports up to 1,000 posts and pages per site.

Suggestions from connected sites appear in the post editor when you click Get Legacy Suggestions, marked Connected site:. The full walkthrough, every status and every error message are in How to connect other external sites you own.

Card 2: Debug & support tools

Diagnostic toggles. Most sites can leave these all off.

Show PHP errors on the page

Surfaces PHP errors instead of hiding them. Useful for diagnosing issues, but visitors may see error messages — only enable briefly on a staging site.

Re-scan posts every time they are saved

Checks for un-indexed posts every time a post is saved. Can fix missing entries in reports but may cause memory/timeout errors on large sites. Default is OFF.

Include extra detail in support exports

Adds post meta to the support data. Usually only needed for page-builder issues.

Click Save Settings when changing anything.

Card 3: Danger zone

The big red box.

Wipe everything if I uninstall Linkilo

Toggle (Delete on uninstall / Keep data). When ON, deleting the Linkilo plugin will wipe:

• All settings
• Click data
• URL records
• Suggestion history
• Embedding caches

Links Linkilo inserted INTO your content stay (because they're now part of your posts). But you lose every URL-change record, every report, every analytic.

Toggling on doesn't delete anything. It only sets the uninstall behavior. Actual deletion happens when you DELETE the plugin from Plugins → Installed Plugins.

So if you toggle this on by accident, you can safely toggle it back off before uninstalling. Nothing is destroyed until uninstall AND this toggle is ON.

Licensing (separate sidebar item)

Licensing is its own item in the same Advanced group. Click Linkilo → Settings → Licensing to reach it.

One card: Activate Linkilo.

Activate

1. Paste your license key into the License key field.
2. Click Activate License.
3. See "License active" in green. The card title changes to Active license with a partial-key view and the installed Linkilo version.

Deactivate (moving to a new site)

Linkilo doesn't have an in-plugin Deactivate button. To free a license slot:

1. Sign in to linkilo.co.
2. Go to Manage Sites.
3. Remove the site you want to free up.

You can also click Manage sites on linkilo.co from the Active license card to jump there.

Diagnostics (separate sidebar item)

Linkilo → Settings → Diagnostics is where you look when something misbehaves.

• Performance Safe Mode — Turn on Safe Mode pauses every Linkilo background job and per-request extra while keeping reports and settings usable. Use it if your host reports high CPU or database load; turn it off once they confirm things are normal.
• System Status — live checks with a Re-check now button. Problems and warnings are highlighted.
• Last recorded error — the most recent PHP error Linkilo caught, with where it happened. It's a record of a past error; clear it after fixing the cause.
• Recent debug log — the last lines of wp-content/debug.log.
• Background activity — the Linkilo jobs currently queued, soonest first.
• Suggestion quality (AI) — how many AI suggestions you've applied versus rejected.
• Copy system report for support — click Copy report and paste the result into your support email. This replaces the old downloadable support export.

Common Questions

Do connected sites share my AI provider key?

No. Each site uses its own key. Connected sites only share the titles and addresses of their published posts and pages.

Can any site connect to mine?

No. A site can only connect after you click Accept on this site, and only while Enable cross-site linking is on. You can remove a connected site at any time with Remove.

When should I turn on "Show PHP errors on the page"?

Only when diagnosing an issue. Visitors may see error messages with stack traces — bad for production. Turn it on briefly, capture the error, turn it off. Check Settings → Diagnostics → Last recorded error first; it often shows the problem without exposing anything to visitors.

What if I want to keep some data and delete other data?

The uninstall toggle is all-or-nothing. To clear only AI data, use the Danger zone at the bottom of Settings → AI Settings: Reset All AI Data removes every embedding, keyword and suggestion (you would process your content again from scratch); Reset All Usage Stats clears only the usage counters. For anything more granular, contact support.

My license won't activate

Check:

1. No spaces in the key (paste carefully).
2. License not expired (check your linkilo.co account).
3. License has activations left (multi-site licenses cap activations).
4. Your site is reachable from our server (firewalls/proxies can block).

See Troubleshooting for more details.

Do I lose data if my license expires?

Your data is safe, but the plugin locks itself until a valid key is entered: the Linkilo menu shrinks to the license screen, the editor boxes and the Related Posts widget stop loading, and plugin updates stop. Settings, inserted links, reports and history all stay in the database and come back when you reactivate. See Will I lose my links if I cancel?.

Can I share my license with my client?

Depends on the license type. Per-site licenses are one site. Unlimited-site licenses can be used across all sites you manage. Check your linkilo.co account or contact support if unsure.

Last reviewed for Linkilo 3.0.0 (October 2026).