Linkify Posts – coffee2code.com

Author: Scott Reilly

Version: 2.4.1

First released: 2010-08-28

Last update: 2023-08-22

Compatibility: WP 3.3 – 6.3.4

Download: [ zip ]

Description:

Turn a string, list, or array of post IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to those posts. Provides a widget and template tag.

Extended Description

The plugin provides a widget called “Linkify Posts” as well as a template tag, c2c_linkify_posts(), which allow you to easily specify posts to list and how to list them. Posts are specified by either ID or slug. See other parts of the documentation for example usage and capabilities.

Particularly handy when used in conjunction with the post custom field feature of WordPress. You could define a custom field for “Related Posts” or “Additional Products” and manually list out post IDs, then utilize the function provided by this plugin to display links to those posts in a custom manner.

Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | GitHub | Author Homepage

Developer Documentation

Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md. That documentation covers the template tag and hook provided by the plugin.

As an overview, this is the template tag provided by the plugin:

c2c_linkify_posts() : Template tag to display links to each of any number of posts specified via post IDs/slugs. You can customize text to show before and/or after the entire listing, between each post, and what to display (if anything) when no posts are listed.

This is the hook provided by the plugin:

c2c_linkify_posts : Allows use of an alternative approach to safely invoke c2c_linkify_posts() in such a way that if the plugin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the function won’t cause errors in your site.

Find out more at the plugin’s WordPress Plugin Repository page.

Screenshots

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The plugin’s widget configuration.

Installation

Install via the built-in WordPress plugin installer. Or install the plugin code inside the plugins directory for your site (typically /wp-content/plugins/).
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ admin menu in WordPress
Optional: Use the c2c_linkify_posts() template tag in one of your templates (be sure to pass it at least the first argument indicating what post IDs and/or slugs to linkify — the argument can be an array, a space-separate list, or a comma-separated list). Other optional arguments are available to customize the output.
Optional: Use the “Linkify Posts” widget in one of the sidebar provided by your theme.

Release Log

2.4.1 (2023-08-22)

Fix: Fix a typo in documentation
Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.3+
Change: Update copyright date (2023)
New: Add .gitignore file
Unit tests:
- Allow tests to run against current versions of WordPress
- New: Add composer.json for PHPUnit Polyfill dependency
- Change: Prevent PHP warnings due to missing core-related generated files

2.4 (2021-10-19)

Change: Remove long-deprecated function linkify_post_ids()
New: Add DEVELOPER-DOCS.md and move template tag and hooks documentation into it
Change: Tweak installation instruction
Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.8+
Unit tests:
- Change: Restructure unit test directories
  - Change: Move phpunit/ into tests/phpunit/
  - Change: Move phpunit/bin/ into tests/
- Change: Remove ‘test-‘ prefix from unit test file
- Change: In bootstrap, store path to plugin file constant
- Change: In bootstrap, add backcompat for PHPUnit pre-v6.0

2.3.6 (2021-04-28)

Change: Add textdomain for lone non-widget string
Change: Fix Markdown formatting for code examples in readme.txt
Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.7+
New: Add a few more possible TODO items

Copyright & Disclaimer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Discussion / Support

Have any questions, comments, or suggestions? Please provide them via the plugin’s WordPress.org support forum. I’ll do my best to reply in a timely fashion and help as best I can.

Unfortunately, I cannot provide guaranteed support, nor do I provide support via any other means.

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