Backlinks
A backlink is an automatic list of every page that links to the current page.
How backlinks work
Rendering your site, quarto-graph:
- Scans all wikilinks and internal Markdown links across your pages
- For each target page, collects all pages linking to it
- Appends a “Backlinks” section at the bottom of that page
- Sorts the list alphabetically by page title
Both this page and The Graph Widget link here from the home page and each other. Scroll to the bottom to see the backlinks list.
What counts as a backlink
Backlinks are created from wikilinks and from plain Markdown links that resolve to another page in this project:
[[Backlinks]]counts as a backlink[Backlinks](./backlinks.qmd)also counts, since it resolves to this page[Backlinks](https://example.com)does NOT count, since it’s external- linking to the same page twice, wikilink and Markdown link both, only backlinks once
Backlinks and graph edges are generated from the same scan, so they always stay in sync.
How backlinks appear
The backlinks section is injected at render time by a Pandoc Lua filter. It’s never written to your .qmd source files. For example:
## Backlinks
- [The Graph Widget](../the-graph-widget/index.qmd)
- [quarto-graph](../../index.qmd)