Maarten

Apprique

The plugin re-enables the Link Manager in WordPress and provides the shortcode ‘links’. This shortcode displays a list of all links having specified characteristics, for example a link category name in your post. By default it includes a Facebook Like button for every link, but this can be easily disabled.
The plugin supports a customizable template for showing links. This enables you to use the shortcode to display links in any format you like, for example in a list or a table, with or without link images, etc. All relevant properties of a link are supported and listed on the Settings page of the plugin.
The typical format for the short code is
<blockquote>
[links option1=”x” option2=”y” etc…]
</blockquote>
The following options are available:
<ul>
<li>fblike: Show the facebook Like button (default ‘1’, to disable set to any value other than ‘1’).</li>
<li>fbrecommend: Show the Facebook Recommend botton (default ”, to enable set to ‘1’).</li>
<li>orderby: Order the links by (default ‘name’). Use ‘order’ to order links by order specified with ‘My Link Order’ plugin.</li>
<li>order: How to order, ASC or DESC (default ‘DESC’).</li>
<li>limit: Limit the number of links shown (default ‘-1’, which means no limit). </li>
<li>category: Comma separated list of link category ID’s.</li>
<li>category_name: Category name of a catgeory of links to show. Overrides category parameter.</li>
<li>hide_invisible: Hide links marked as not visible (default ‘1’, yes).</li>
<li>include: Comma separated list of numeric link IDs to include. If ‘include’ is used, the category, category_name, and exclude parameters are ignored. </li>
<li>exclude: Comma separated list of numeric link IDs to exclude.</li>
<li>search: Shows all links matching this search string. It searches url, link name and link description.</li>
<li>links_per_page: To paginate lists of links. How many links to show per page. Below the links a pagination will be shown.</li>
<li>links_list_id: A unique identifyer on a page for the shortcode at hand. Mandatory in case ‘links_per_page’ is used to paginate. Optional to define custom styles for this id using css. </li>
<li>class: A class that can be inserted using the links template. You could for example use <div class=”[class]”> in the template to attache different style to different instances of the short code.</li>
<li>alttext: An alternative text that will be displayed if the shortcode does not return any links.</li>
</ul>
Dafault options can be changed on a ‘Links Shortcode’ page in the Settings menu.
Example:
<blockquote>
[links category_name=”Blogroll”]
</blockquote>
Using the customizable template, all properties of a link can be displayed. An example template is included. This template uses the Name, Web Address, Description and Rating of your links. The Name will link to the Web Address.
If the Name starts with a date, formatted as: yyyy-mm-dd followed by ‘:’, a separate property for the date is available.
Templates are fully customizable. For more information see http://www.apprique.com/community/wordpress-plugins.
Please note that the Description of a link has a limited length, but the WordPress UI does not show this. After saving changes to a Link in the Links section, WordPress only saves the first 255 characters. This has nothing to do with this Plugin.

Links shortcode

The plugin provides the shortcode 'links'. This shortcode shows all links having specified characteristics, following a specified template.

WPAutoLogin

This plugin allows admininstators to generate autologin links for their 
WordPress website, logging in visitors under a certain user name. Administrators 
can edit (generate and delete) autologin links for users, users can only view 
their autologin links. Note that This plugin bypasses the standard 
authentication method of wordpress via login and password and should only be 
used if you understand the security issues mentioned below and on the 
<a href="http://www.craftware.nl/wordpress-autologin/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin website</a>.
Usage
Once this plugin is activated, administrators can generate autologin links on 
the edit profile administration pages for different users. Users can view their 
autlogin links on their profile pages. Autologin links are of the form:
http://yourwebsite/[subdirectory/]?autologin_code=ABC123
For more convenience it is possible since version 1.05 to generate login links 
directly using the wordpress, site-preview functionality. When viewing the page 
while being logged in as an administrator, the top-bar will show an extra item 
“Auto-login link”. When pointing at the menu item, a dropdown list will list 
all users for whom autologin links were generated on their profile pages. When 
clicking on one of the users, a popup will open showing the link that will 
automatically login a visitor as the selected user and bring him to the 
current page.
Security issues
Since autologin links are meant to be an OPEN way to login to 
your website and can be viewed by users on their profile, it might be considered 
an INSECURE plugin for WordPress. I did my best to make it as secure as possible 
to fit my own needs, but this lead to some design choices which might not sit 
well with all administrators:
Autologin codes are saved as plain text. This means that anyone who can 
execute queries on the WordPress database (plugins, administrators, system 
administrators) can obtain the autologin code for a certain user. I planned an 
extension of this plugin where login codes are hashed. However, this again has 
the disadvantage that noone can redisplay a once generated login link.
This is the most severe problem. For a full self-assesment of possible security 
issues regarding this problem, please visit the 
<a href="http://www.craftware.nl/wordpress-autologin/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin website</a>.

Autologin Links

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WARNING: THIS PLUGIN CAN BE INSECURE IF NOT USED CAUTIOUSLY. Allows selected users to autologin to your WordPress website via autologin links.

Links shortcode vs Autologin Links