Linked Posts how do they work?

  • Resolved mungbean

    (@mungbean)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there,

    How are “linked post” entries generated in the Links page, it seems automated? Is it any page on the website that contains one or more shortened URLS?

    If so, is there a way to see which shortened links are on a linked post? It would be very helpful to see a list of links per post.

    Perhaps a section could be added to the Edit view of a linked post link, or even better, from the Links table, have the linked post table row be expandable to show the list of shortened links without having to go into the Edit view.

    Would this be added in a upcoming update?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Mike L

    (@mikeatkaizencoders)

    Hi,

    “Linked Post” does not indicate all short links available to that page but it indicates that this short link is generated automatically for any of the Posts, Pages, or Custom Post Types of WordPress.

    Perhaps a section could be added to the Edit view of a linked post link, or even better, from the Links table, have the linked post table row be expandable to show the list of shortened links without having to go into the Edit view.

    Can you please explain a little bit more about this feature? Most importantly why you need this?

    Thread Starter mungbean

    (@mungbean)

    I see. Is there a way to turn off this automated process?

    As for the second part, it was based off of the assumption that a linked post was a post that contained a shortened URL. But since you said that is not always the case, this is more of a general capability request. So generally speaking, it would be helpful to have a capability to see where shortened links are used on the website. Either as a new section within the Links edit view (I can click to open/edit a link, and within it, there is a table or similar with a list of website URLs/posts/titles where that shortened link has been used), or this could be a new option in the plugin menu, perhaps “Usage” or part of Tools. There could be a use case where link updates could be applied to individual posts or to all (bulk operation)

    Thanks!

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