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Plugin Description
This plugin is a minimalist backlink tracker, based on taxonomies.
The plugin maintains a taxonomy of which posts links to which. The taxonomy is mostly invisible, but available through REST.
The backlink taxonomy is updated automatically whenever a post is published, scheduled or later updated.
A backlink_count taxonomy likewise keeps track of how many backlinks each post has.
User Interface
The backlink taxonomy is availble for the Query Loop block, which can be used to create a dynamic “What links here” block.
The backlink_count taxonomy can be used to filter the displayed posts on the admin interface. This is a handy way of finding posts with no or few incoming links.
The Admin posts list has a “Suggest Backlinks” added for each post, which will find posts with shared tags and categories, that are not already linked from the post.
The Admin posts list also has a ‘Backlinks’ column available, showing the number of backlinks for the post. Clicking on the column will show the backlinks. The column is sortable. The column also shows the number of outgoing links, also clickable.
The plugin adds a WP-CLI command ‘backlinks’ with sub-commands for rescanning posts (all or specified), getting overall status, showing links to and from a single post, and for generating additional link suggestions based on categories and tags.
The settings pages is rather basic, but allows the setting of post_types to operate on, and post_statuses to select on.
Please note that any later changes to these parameters will most likely require a complate rescan using the WP-CLI ‘backlinks rescan’ command.
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