Backlinks Taxonomy is a minimalist backlink tracker for WordPress sites using taxonomies.
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 available 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 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.
Installation
The plugin can be installed as any other plugin.
It requires not external setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nothing yet.
Changelog
- 0.28
Updates based on the WordPress plugin teams feedback. - 0.27
Added links to settings on the plugin list page - 0.26
Fixed errors in textual output (singular/plurals) - 0.25
Corrections for translations. - 0.24
Added a basic settings page. - 0.23
Changed file names to match the official name of the plugin. - 0.22
Updates based on the WordPress plugin teams feedback. - 0.21
Show number of outgoing links to Backlinks column too. - 0.20
Fix a bug where backlink_count wasn’t updated for the post itself, only for outgoing links. - 0.19
Made the ‘Backlinks’ column sortable. - 0.18
Added the ‘Backlinks’ column in the admin post list. - 0.17
Further sanitizing of input for backlink_count filter. - 0.16
Use filter_input() for backlink_count filter. - 0.15
Suggest backlinks using all public taxonomies (including custom taxomonies) with show_ui=true. - 0.14
Use add_query_var() for backlinks_suggest searches. - 0.13
Allow non-public post_statuses such as ‘private’. - 0.12
Added option ‘backlinks_post_statuses’. - 0.11
Post action link for backlink suggestions. - 0.10
First published version.
Upgrade Notice
Nothing yet.
![Screenshot of the Backlinks Counter filter menu in WordPress.](https://rene.seindal.dk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Backlinks-Taxonomy-600x450.png)
Screenshots
The only visible parts of this plugin is the taxonomy in the Query Loop block parameters, and the backlink count filter menu on the admin post list.