About this plugin
LinkAuthority is a link-exchange network. Members list each other’s businesses on a “Business Partners” page, giving every participating site a set of relevant, editorially presented outbound links.
This plugin renders that directory on your site and keeps it current. Add the shortcode [linkauthority_partners] to any page – or let the plugin create a ready-made Business Partners page for you – and the listing updates itself as businesses join or leave the network.
What it does
- Renders the partner directory anywhere via the [linkauthority_partners] shortcode
- Refreshes hourly, plus an immediate update when the network changes
- Ships responsive card styling that inherits nothing from, and overrides nothing in, your theme
- Adds Schema.org ItemList structured data describing the listed businesses
- A Network screen in wp-admin to browse every member by niche, and to choose who appears on your own page
- Link Repair: spots when another site is linking to a page of yours that no longer exists, and fixes it with one click
- A guard that keeps an old address working when you rename a page other sites link to
- Optional page-view reporting, so your LinkAuthority dashboard can show how the page performs
- Optional “Site by LinkAuthority” credit link
Both optional features are off by default and stay off until you turn them on.
External service
This plugin requires a free account at LinkAuthority and does not function without one. It is a client for that service.
live to:
- register your site as active on the network, and mark it inactive again when you deactivate the plugin (your site token and site URL are sent)
- download the current list of partner businesses, hourly and on demand (your site token is sent)
- load the full member directory for the Network screen, and save which partners you hide from your page (your site token is sent)
- report link sightings, only while link repair is enabled (on by default): when a visitor arrives from another site, two URLs are sent – the page they came from, and the address on your site they asked for. No IP address, user agent, session or any other visitor detail is collected or sent. LinkAuthority then fetches both of those pages itself to check whether the link is still there and whether it still lands on a working page
- download the resulting link report, so this plugin can warn you before you rename a page that other sites link to (your site token is sent)
- report your Business Partners page view count, only if you enable that option (your site token and a single running total are sent – never any visitor details)
The plugin also exposes one authenticated REST route, linkauthority/v1/update, which LinkAuthority calls to trigger an immediate refresh. Requests must present your site token, which is compared in constant time; nothing else is accepted.
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