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Link Icons

Description

Link Icons adds a icon next you your different types of links in your posts an pages.

Link Icons does not connect to any external sites.

0.4

  • Admin interface with option to enable or disable HTTP Header Usage
  • Added support for youtu.be short links.

0.3.1

  • Fix for this https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-will-come-back-later
  • Fix for https-links

0.3

  • Video link type
  • Sets icons to links to URLs that return Video content type.
  • Sets icons to links to a youtube video.

0.2

  • Ignores a-tags if it wraps an img.
  • Sets icons to links to URLs that return Image content type

0.1

  • Initial upload
  • External links

Screenshots

  • This is how it looks

Installation

Easiest installation

  1. In wordpress admin go to Plugins -> Add plugin
  2. Search for “Link Icons” and add

Alternative installation

  1. Upload the link-icons folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

Can I set my own icons?

Not yet, but soon.

What type of links does it add icons to?
  • External links
  • Links to images
  • Links to videos
  • Links to youtubevideos

More to come

Can I turn of one of the link types?

Not yet, but by the end of this week an admin interface will give you this opportunity

Can I turn of use of HTTP Header?

Not yet, but by the end of this week an admin interface will give you this opportunity

Reviews

December 13, 2018
This is a very simple and simple plugin! Many thanks to the author for his work!
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Contributors & Developers

“Link Icons” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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