Bad Little Robot

<p>BLR Backline is a private front-end back office for bands, musicians, and music projects running on WordPress.</p>
<p>It gives authorized users one centralized workspace for managing releases, tracks, contacts, outreach, events, tasks, fan signups, and basic project operations without needing to work inside the standard WordPress admin area.</p>
<p>BLR Backline is designed for musicians who need practical project infrastructure without duct-taping together spreadsheets, CRMs, calendar tools, and half-broken mailing workflows.</p>
<p>Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Front-end dashboard for authorized users</li>
<li>Discography management for releases and tracks</li>
<li>Contact management for industry, fan, venue, press, and project contacts</li>
<li>Outreach campaign management</li>
<li>Background outreach queue processing with campaign locking</li>
<li>Newsletter signup handling with email confirmation support</li>
<li>Newsletter subscription statuses for pending, subscribed, and unsubscribed contacts</li>
<li>Event and calendar views</li>
<li>Task and workflow tracking</li>
<li>Front-end profile management</li>
<li>Privacy exporter and eraser support for supported plugin data</li>
<li>Optional uninstall cleanup controls</li>
</ul>
<p>BLR Backline is self-contained. Its dashboard assets are bundled locally with the plugin and are scoped to the BLR Backline interface rather than being loaded from third-party CDNs.</p>
<p>The plugin does not include telemetry, usage tracking, external analytics, or “call home” behavior.</p>
<p>Email sending for outreach and signup confirmation uses WordPress mail handling through <code>wp_mail()</code>. If you need authenticated delivery through a third-party provider, configure a dedicated SMTP or transactional mail plugin at the WordPress site level.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>BLR Backline stores site-managed operational data inside WordPress for the features it provides.</p>
<p>Depending on which modules and workflows you use, the plugin may store:</p>
<ul>
<li>Release and track records</li>
<li>Contact records, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, company names, roles, websites, locations, newsletter signup flags, subscription status, and internal notes</li>
<li>Fan signup submissions, including email address, optional first name, signup timestamp, source label, tag details, confirmation status, and confirmation timestamps where applicable</li>
<li>Outreach campaigns and outreach logs, including recipient email address, delivery status, sent timestamp, notes, and recorded error messages</li>
<li>Event, task, finance, and notification records created by authorized users</li>
<li>Plugin settings related to dashboard access and behavior</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin does not send analytics or telemetry to the plugin author.</p>
<p>The plugin sends outreach email and signup confirmation email only through WordPress mail handling. If the site owner configures an SMTP or transactional mail plugin, email may then be relayed through that separately configured provider.</p>
<p>BLR Backline includes integration with WordPress personal data export and erasure tools for supported contact and outreach log data, including supported newsletter confirmation details.</p>
<p>Site owners are responsible for using the plugin in a way that complies with applicable privacy, consent, marketing, and email laws and platform policies.</p>
<p>If uninstall cleanup is enabled in the plugin settings, plugin-owned data can be removed during uninstall. If uninstall cleanup is not enabled, plugin data is left in place.</p>
<h3>Third-Party Resources</h3>
<p>BLR Backline bundles the following third-party assets locally for use inside the BLR Backline dashboard:</p>
<h4>AdminKit</h4>
<ul>
<li>Path: <code>assets/adminkit/</code></li>
<li>Files: <code>assets/adminkit/css/app.css</code></li>
<li>Version marker in bundled CSS: 3.4.0</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://adminkit.io/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Bootstrap</h4>
<ul>
<li>Path: <code>assets/vendor/bootstrap/</code></li>
<li>Files: <code>assets/vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css</code>, <code>assets/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js</code></li>
<li>Version marker in bundled CSS: 5.3.8</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://getbootstrap.com/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Select2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Path: <code>assets/vendor/select2/</code></li>
<li>Files: <code>assets/vendor/select2/css/select2.css</code>, <code>assets/vendor/select2/js/select2.js</code></li>
<li>Version marker in bundled JS: 4.0.13</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://select2.org/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Flatpickr</h4>
<ul>
<li>Path: <code>assets/vendor/flatpickr/</code></li>
<li>Files: <code>assets/vendor/flatpickr/css/flatpickr.css</code>, <code>assets/vendor/flatpickr/js/flatpickr.js</code></li>
<li>Version marker in bundled JS: 4.6.13</li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://flatpickr.js.org/</li>
</ul>
<h4>Feather Icons</h4>
<ul>
<li>Path: <code>assets/vendor/feather/</code></li>
<li>Files: <code>assets/vendor/feather/js/feather.js</code></li>
<li>License: MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://feathericons.com/</li>
</ul>
<p>All bundled third-party assets are served locally by the plugin. No third-party CDN is required for runtime operation.</p>
<p>Additional bundled asset notes are documented in:</p>
<pre><code>assets/THIRD_PARTY_ASSETS.md
</code></pre>


BLR Backline

Front-end dashboard for bands and music projects.

FTF Developer

<p>Linkbuildr helps content creators streamline their outreach to people they link to.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>SCANS YOUR POST FOR LINKS<br />
When you click publish on a new blog post, Linkbuildr scans your post and identifies all of the website’s your article links to.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>IDENTIFIES CONTACTS AND INFORMATION<br />
Linkbuildr then check’s your site’s database of contacts to identify any new websites that are not already stored. For new sites it displays a pop-up window for each and suggests a name and email for your to save, edit, or skip.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>PUSH BUTTON EMAIL OUTREACH<br />
With the simple click of the publish button, Linkbuildr sends an email to each contact it found (and you’ve approved) for hands free content promotion. For more impact you can add custom email templates and set them at the domain level for maximum customization.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>IMPORT YOUR EXISTING CONTACTS<br />
Import a CSV of your existing contacts with the associated information.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>SUPPORTS GDPR COMPLIANCE<br />
Allows a user’s contacts to unsubscribe from future emails, with a custom unsubscribe landing page, and the ability to delete all of a contact’s data.</p>
</li>
</ol>


Linkbuildr

Such a shame: NOT GDPR COMPLIANT !
Not opt-in compliant and so on...
Bad, bad, bad...

Not GDPR compliant

Amazing

Automated content promotion. Share your content with the people who care the most, automatically.

BLR Backline vs Linkbuildr