About this plugin
ly helps you understand how your audience is connecting to your content.
ly to understand what content draws in website visitors, and why. Using our powerful dashboards and APIs, customers build successful digital strategies that allow them to grow and engage a loyal audience.
ly to bring clarity to content, audience, and analytics.
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Features
ly dashboard into WordPress.
Automated integration
ly metadata and JavaScript in all published pages and posts (Custom Post Types are supported). It also provides a settings page to customize your integration, with options including:
ly metadata as JSON-LD or repeated meta tags.
– Choose whether logged-in users should be tracked.
– Define how to track every Post Type (as Post, Non-Post or no tracking).
Parse.ly Content Intelligence
Content Intelligence is a set of content insight tools including:
ly Dashboard Widget – Displays the site’s top posts in the WordPress Dashboard.
ly Stats Column – Displays published post performance for the last 7 days in Post Lists.
– The Engagement Boost feature – Helps you increase page views and engagement by strategically placing links to key content within high-performing articles on your site.
ly Editor Sidebar – This sidebar is integrated into the WordPress Editor and offers insights about the content currently being edited such as:
– Title Suggestions – Generates title suggestions for the post/page currently being edited.
– Smart Linking – Automatically adds links to the current content that point to the most relevant and top-performing posts.
– Related Posts – Displays a list of the website’s most successful posts, similar to the post/page currently being edited.
– Performance Stats – Displays performance metrics about the content currently being edited.
– Excerpt Suggestions – Generates an excerpt suggestion for the post/page currently being edited, from the Excerpt panel of the Post Editor’s settings.
The Parse.ly Recommendations Block
The plugin includes a Recommendations Block that displays a list of posts related to the currently viewed post/page. The Block is useful for showcasing related content to visitors, and it can also be used in Site Editing mode or as a Block-based Widget.
Advanced integrations support
While the plugin works out of the box for basic integrations, it offers a host of features that easily allow for advanced integration scenarios:
– Support for Google Tag Manager, AMP, Google Web Stories and Cloudflare is included.
– The plugin exposes the wpParselyOnLoad and wpParselyOnReady JavaScript hooks that allow for advanced integrations requiring JavaScript, such as Dynamic Tracking.
– Support for WordPress network/multisite and decoupled/headless (GraphQL and WP Rest API) setups is included.
– Last but not least, a wide range of hooks is available in order to customize the plugin’s functionality even further.
Documentation and resources
- Plugin Documentation.
- Commonly Asked Questions.
- Changelog.
IMPORTANT: If you are a WordPress VIP customer, please consult the WordPress VIP documentation for more details.
Sample Parse.ly metadata
ly JavaScript tracker inserted before the closing body tag:
js"></script>
A sample JSON-LD structured data for a home page or section page:
com\/"} </script>
A sample JSON-LD meta tag and structured data for an article or post:
png"},"keywords":[]} </script>
Contributing
Development, code hosting and issue tracking of this plugin happens on the wp-parsely GitHub repository. Active development happens on the develop branch and releases are made off the trunk branch.
To run the plugin locally or to contribute to it, please check the instructions in the CONTRIBUTING file.