Suggest relevant internal links within post content

[jeffpaul]

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.

An item that can help with onsite engagement is adding links from within post content to other posts within the same site. Some authors and editors on a site might have sufficient context for the population of posts, but in a realistic case there will be authors and editors who are unaware of existing posts that could be linked. As such, leveraging an LLM that would be able to process post content and then identify potential other posts from the site that could be linked into the post content (as well as WHERE within that post content to link).

Some might suggest that a "related articles" block could handle some of this linking, but sometimes clickthroughs on those blocks aren't as high as links within content.

One thing to consider here is whether this should also support linking to content within a network of sites, but as a default and for a first implementation I'd say we can consider content within the existing site.

Designs

I don't think we want to automatically link within post content to other posts, but perhaps finding a good place/way to recommend those links to an author/editor to then accept/reject might be best. Perhaps this is something to do within the Pre-Publish Panel, perhaps this is something to do within a sidebar pannel within the block editor and triggered manually by an author or editor (eg "recommend links within content")? I don't know that this would be something that would automatically recommend links after a post draft saving as it would be hard to know if a post was far enough along in drafting to be ready to find those linked posts, which is why I think either having a human trigger the search for links or having that done in the pre-publish panel makes the most sense.

If folks have a strong preference on how/where to integrate, then I can work on some rough mockups to show how that might work. Comments and feedback on implementation specifics are welcome!

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