Title: WP Instant Links Author: Kevin Batdorf Published: February 14, 2019 Last modified: April 28, 2019 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-instant-links/assets/banner-772x250.jpeg?rev=2030624) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-instant-links/assets/icon-256x256.jpeg?rev=2030624) # WP Instant Links By [Kevin Batdorf](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kbat82/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-instant-links.zip) * [Details](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instant-links/#description) * [Reviews](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instant-links/#reviews) * [Installation](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instant-links/#installation) * [Development](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instant-links/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/) ## Description Works out of the box. After activating, this plugin will pre-fetch the next web page just before your user clicks, thus giving the experience of an instant page load. Better UX. Perfect for slower and shared web hosting plans. This plugin is a wrapper for instant.page with some additional options and designed to be ready-to-go out of the box. No configuration needed. More from [https://instant.page/](https://instant.page/) – instant.page uses just-in-time preloading — it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. Before a user clicks on a link, they hover their mouse over that link. When a user has hovered for 65 ms there is one chance out of two that they will click on that link, so instant.page starts preloading at this moment, leaving on average over 300 ms for the page to preload. **Easy on your server and your user’s data plan** Pages are preloaded only when there’s a good chance that a user is going to visit them, and it preloads only the HTML of that page, being respectful of your users’ and servers’ bandwidth and CPU. It’s 1 kB and loads after everything else. And it’s free and open source (MIT license). Some Technical Info: https://instant.page/tech ## Screenshots * [[ * Convenient settings area to debug links, exclude links and override other settings. ## Installation The easy way: 1. Go to the Plugins Menu in WordPress 2. Click “Add New” 3. Search for “WP Instant Links” 4. Click “Install Now” 5. Click “Activate” The not so easy way: 1. Upload the `wp-instant-links` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. You’re all set! ## FAQ Do you preload every page? This will only preload an internal page when the user hovers over the link to the page for 65ms. To view which pages are being loaded, enable debugging in the settings and check the developer tools console for details Will it preload the logout page and log me out? Pages with a query string (a “?”) in their URL aren’t preloaded, which includes the WP logout URL. If you would like to include URLs with query strings, you check that option in the settings area. Can I override a link that I do not want preloaded? Yes, just add the “data-no-instant” attribute to the element, or add it to the exclusions list in the settings area. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/288fce37271ee7548a8d8f30371b313487a34884e4decf1fffcbb05afaeba4ea? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Amazing!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-2576/)󠁿 [gevcen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gevcen/) April 14, 2020 I can’t believe that such feature isn’t available in some major speed optimization like WP Rocket, Autoptimize… ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aa0eb1760b18d03870254368b302f95ff9b30ebc53db73a86cb89ad7c0c72625? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great implementation!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-implementation-4/)󠁿 [orchidweb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/orchidweb/) May 30, 2019 Works really well out of the box. [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “WP Instant Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Kevin Batdorf ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kbat82/) [Translate “WP Instant Links” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-instant-links) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-instant-links/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-instant-links/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-instant-links/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-instant-links/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.0 – 2019/Apr/28 * FEATURE: Adds option to include all external links * TWEAK: Updates instant.page to 1.2.2 * TWEAK: Adds a few extra debugging outputs #### 1.0.2 – 2019/Feb/14 * TWEAK: Updates content in various areas #### 1.0.1 – 2019/Feb/14 * FIX: Adds JS file forgotten by deploy script #### 1.0.0 – 2019/Feb/14 * Initial Release ## Meta * Version **1.1.0** * Last updated **7 years ago** * Active installations **80+** * WordPress version ** 4.1.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.2.24** * PHP version ** 5.3 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instant-links/) * Tags * [conversions](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/conversions/)[fast loading](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/fast-loading/) [instant page](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/instant-page/)[Page Speed](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/page-speed/) [prefetch](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/prefetch/) * [Advanced View](https://co.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instant-links/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Kevin Batdorf ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kbat82/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-instant-links/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://www.paypal.me/kevinbatdorf/5)