by Yannick Lefebvre 4.7 (97 reviews)

Link Library

Name: Link Library
Rating: 4.7 (97 reviews)
Author: Yannick Lefebvre

The purpose of this plugin is to add the ability to output a list of link categories and a complete list of links with notes and descriptions.

Link Library ranks #2,118 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #208 of 4,938 in the Utilities & Tools category, a 4.7/5 rating from 97 reviews, and was last updated Sep 7, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v7.9.7 Current Version v7.9.7

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 07 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 15 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#208 of 4,938 in Utilities & Tools Top 5% by installs Downloads -82.6% this week Actively maintained

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#2,118

-6 this week

Active Installs

10K+

-11.8%

KW Avg Position

57.8

0.4 worse

Downloads

2.4M

+138 today

Support Resolved

33%

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Rating

94%

Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (97 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 13%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.7

97 reviews

Overall 94%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

36 known vulnerabilities on record · 9 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Aug 3, 2026

Link Library [link-library] < 7.9.4

CVE-2026-16535 · Fixed in v7.9.4
Jul 29, 2026

Link Library [link-library] < 7.9.5

CVE-2026-18855 · Fixed in v7.9.5
Jul 23, 2026

Link Library [link-library] < 7.9.3

CVE-2026-16532 · Fixed in v7.9.3
Apr 22, 2026

Link Library [link-library] < 7.8.9

CVE-2026-40779 · Fixed in v7.8.9
Apr 22, 2026

Link Library [link-library] < 7.9.4

CVE-2026-18197 · Fixed in v7.9.4
Dec 24, 2025

Link Library [link-library] < 7.8.8

CVE-2025-68600 · Fixed in v7.8.8
Apr 22, 2025

Link Library [link-library] < 7.8.1

CVE-2025-46237 · Fixed in v7.8.1
Apr 4, 2025

Link Library [link-library] < 7.8

CVE-2025-2889 · Fixed in v7.8
Jan 20, 2025

Link Library [link-library] < 7.7.3

CVE-2024-13404 · Fixed in v7.7.3
Jul 11, 2024

Link Library [link-library] < 7.7.2

CVE-2024-38711 · Fixed in v7.7.2

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Plugin Details

Version: 7.9.7
Last Updated: Sep 07, 2026
Requires WP: 4.4+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Yannick Lefebvre

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7
Reviews: 97
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 33%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to showcase curated link collections organized by category. It solves the problem of manually building and maintaining link directory pages by generating configurable, filterable lists of links with categories, notes, descriptions, search, and RSS feeds.

Display link categories
List links with descriptions
Select displayed categories
Single-category AJAX view
Search box for links
User submission form
Moderate user submissions
RSS feed generation

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Link Library

Visit the official documentation for Link Library

French Translation courtesy of Luc Capronnier Danish Translation courtesy of GeorgWP Italian Translation courtesy of Gianni Diurno Serbian Translation courtesy of Ogi Djuraskovic, firstsiteguide.com

The category IDs are numeric IDs. You can find them by going to the page to see and edit link categories, then placing your mouse over a category and seeing its numeric ID in the link that is associated with that name.

If you want all of your link pages to have the same layout, create a single setting set, then specify the category to be displayed when you add the short code to each page. For example: [link-library categorylistoverride="28"] If the different pages have different styles for different categories, then you should create distinct setting sets for each page and set the categories to be displayed in the "Categories to be Displayed" field in the admin panel.

To override the settings specified inside of the plugin settings page, the two commands can be called with options. Here is the syntax to call these options: [link-library-cats categorylistoverride="28"] Overrides the list of categories to be displayed in the category list [link-library-cats excludecategoryoverride="28"] Overrides the list of categories to be excluded in the category list [link-library categorylistoverride="28"] Overrides the list of categories to be displayed in the link list [link-library excludecategoryoverride="28"] Overrides the list of categories to be excluded in the link list [link-library notesoverride=0] Set to 0 or 1 to display or not display link notes [link-library descoverride=0] Set to 0 or 1 to display or not display link descriptions [link-library rssoverride=0] Set to 0 or 1 to display or not display rss information [link-library tableoverride=0] Set to 0 or 1 to display links in an unordered list or a table.

For legacy users of Link Library (pre-1.0), it is still possible to call the back-end functions of the plugin from PHP code to display the contents of your library directly from a page template. The main differences are that the function names have been changed to reflect the plugin name. However, the parameters are compatible with the previous function, with a few additions having been made. Also, it is important to note that the function does not output the Link Library content by themselves as they did. You now need to print the return value of these functions, which can be simply done with the echo command. Finally, it is possible to call these PHP functions with a single argument ('AdminSettings1', 'AdminSettings2', 'AdminSettings3', 'AdminSettings4' or 'AdminSettings5') so that the settings defined in the Admin section are used. Here would be the installation procedure:

Upload link-library.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory Activate the plugin in the Wordpress Admin Use the following functions in a new template and select this template for your page that should display your Link Library. <?php echo $my_link_library_plugin->LinkLibraryCategories('name', 1, 100, 3, 1, 0, '', '', '', false, '', ''); ?> <br /> <?php echo $my_link_library_plugin->LinkLibrary('name', 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, '', 0, 0, 1, 1, '<td>', '</td>', 1, '', '<tr>', '</tr>', '<td>', '</td>', 1, '<td>', '</td>', 1, "Application", "Description", "Similar to", 1, '', '', '', false, 'linklistcatname', false, 0, null, null, null, false, false, false, false, '', ''); ?>