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.

George Pattichis

Link Juice Keeper redirects all non-existing URLs, that normally return a 404 error, to the page/post of your choice. This way everyone who comes to your blog via a broken link (both people and robots) will be redirected to a valid page.
A 404 Error (Page not Found) is very common and one of the main reasons Google can give you a lower ranking. Taking steps to handle 404 errors can be complex for non-techy users. With this free plugin you can finally resolve all 404 errors with just 1 click!
<h3>What are 404 errors?</h3>
As you probably know, incoming links play important role in ranking well in Google and other search engines. Therefore you should ensure that every incoming link leads to one of your valid pages on your blog. This may be a challenge because your website is dynamic and it changes every day:
<ul>
<li>you might remove or unpublish posts or pages;</li>
<li>you might change your URL structure on your blog;</li>
<li>links may brake because of technical misconfiguration;</li>
<li>a webmaster might add your link in their posts with a typo;</li>
<li>a visitor may simply mis-type your post’s URL</li>
</ul>
Any of the above will lead to link juice waste and a 404 error. You can avoid this simply by installing this plugin.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Redirect errors to your homepage, an existing page, post or even a custom link</li>
<li>Monitor/log all 404 errors (Optional)</li>
<li>Choose redirect method to be used (301,302,307)</li>
<li>Send email notifications on every 404 (optional)</li>
<li>Translations ready</li>
</ul>
Link Juice Keeper was originally developed by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sirzooro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Daniel Frużyński</a>. The plugin has been adopted and refactored by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pattihis/" rel="nofollow ugc">George Pattichis</a> who will continue development and maintenance.
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-juice-keeper/changelog/" rel="ugc">Changelog</a>

Link Juice Keeper

Improve your SEO and keep your link juice by automatically redirecting all 404 errors to any page/post/url. User friendly options and log feature.

Links shortcode vs Link Juice Keeper