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Free Plugin by David Shanske v4.5.3

Syndication Links

Link to copies of your cross-posted content in other social networks or websites.

Syndication Links

The facts

Rating
5★ from 5
Active installs
300+
Price
Free
Last updated
23 Mar 2026
Added
Feb 2015
Requires WP
4.9.9
Tested up to
WP 6.8.8
Requires PHP
7.0
Downloads
36,515

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Syndication Links is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add links to your posts, pages, and comments, indicating where a syndicated copy is located. You can manually add these links or use supported plugins for automation. The plugin also features a generic user interface for syndicating content to other sites through your own site or a Micropub Client.

The plugin stores syndication links that can be attached to various content types, including custom post types. It offers settings for displaying these links in different formats, sizes, and locations, providing flexibility in how they appear on your site. This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance their content with syndication capabilities and manage how these links are presented to their audience.

Best for: This plugin is ideal for WordPress users looking to manage syndication links for their content.

What it does well

  • Supports manual and automated link addition
  • Flexible display options for links and icons
  • Compatible with various syndication plugins
  • Allows syndication to multiple platforms via Bridgy

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on specific features and integrations
  • CSS of the theme may affect link display

Verdict

Syndication Links provides a straightforward solution for adding and managing syndication links in WordPress. It is beneficial for those interested in content syndication but may require some configuration to fit specific needs.

From the developer

David Shanske's own description of Syndication Links, lightly tidied.

It supports adding links to your WordPress posts, pages, and comments, indicating where a syndicated copy is, in the form of a text or icon link. You can do this
manually or with supported plugins. Also contains a generic UI for syndicating to other sites through your site or a Micropub Client.

Privacy and Data Storage Information

This plugin stores syndication links, which can be attached to any post, page, or comment. They can be added to custom post types by filter.

For webmention initiated comments, this information will be added by parsing the source of the webmention.
It is assumed if you send a webmention, you consent to share this information if it is publicly shared on your page. Our recommendation
is that site owners should take down information on request.

For comments initiated on the site, there is built-in way to add these links. For posts, they are typically added by retrieving information stored by other plugins for display. It is assumed
that by installing this plugin, as its intent is to display these links, that you wish to display them.

Settings

Settings for the Syndication Links plugin can be found in the main WordPress “Settings” tab in the
admin dashboard, or if the Indieweb plugin is installed, under the Indieweb tab. The options provided allow for various ways of presenting the syndication links in posts. Syndication Links by default will add links to the content. You can remove this in your plugin if you wish to call the display function directly.

The settings include the following options as follows with either a set of buttons, a check box (with a check indicating that the feature is “on”) or an optional text field:

  • Display Text – Offers options to display text only, icons only, icons and text, and no display(hidden icons).
  • Size – Choice of small, medium, or large size icons.
  • Black Icons – Checking the box defaults to a “black” social media icon set.
  • Show on Front Page, Archive Page, and Search Results – If checked the icons will show on pages other than a single view. If not checked, the icons will be hidden by the links will remain.
  • Show on Feed – If checked the icons will show in your RSS feed as well
  • Text Before Links – This is the text that appears before the Display Text/Icons (as indicated above). The default text is “Syndicated to:” but can be modified if desired.

Note: The particular CSS of your theme may change the display and output of the text and some of the icons.

Supported POSSE plugins and implementations

The plugin supports automatically pulling data from plugins that syndicate your content so you don’t need to do it manually. For anything not built in, integation is easy with a simple filter for potential use with any other plugin.

Using the optional Syndication feature(disabled by default) you can syndicate your posts to:

  • Bridgy – Bridgy is a service that allows you to post to various sites. Signup is required. It currently supports Github, Mastodon and Flickr. The plugin supports Bridgy Publish via Micropub by default.
  • Bridgy Fed – Bridgy Fed is a service that allows you to interact with federated social networks using webmentions.
  • Micro.blog – Micro.blog is a social network and publishing platform for independent microblogs, created by Manton Reece. It uses a custom feed you can add to Micro.blog to support this.
  • Pinboard – Pinboard is a bookmarking site. The support for this is currently only enabled if you have Post Kinds enabled, due to the difficulty in getting a URL. It will bookmark the URL of any object you are citing.
  • Custom Webmention Syndication – Add any site that supports publishing by sending a webmention by configuring it in the settings page

Will be looking to integrate with other plugins to add more options and invite developers to add support if they wish as the interface is simple.
The goal of the interface is not only can you syndicate via Micropub, but in the editor using a simple checkbox.

Read the full description on the official page →

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