Title: Link Summarizer Author: GrafZahl Published: August 12, 2007 Last modified: July 10, 2009 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/link-summarizer.svg) # Link Summarizer By [GrafZahl](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grafzahl/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/link-summarizer.1.8.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-summarizer/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-summarizer/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-summarizer/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-summarizer/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/) ## Description With Link Summmarizer you can produce a list of all the links you referred to in a posting. You can exclude links from the summary by specifying regular expressions for links that shouldn’t show up. You can enable/disable the link summary globally through the Options page of Link Summarizer, but you also can enable/disable the display of the summary for specific post by specifying a custom flag named “lnsum_show”( without quotes) and setting a value of 0 (disable) or 1 (enable). You also can choose the regex engine to use (the standard php one or the PCRE extension) ### Uninstallation For uninstallation deactivate the plungin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. ### Contributors * Thomas Ohms ## Screenshots * [[ * Link Summarizer in action ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin to your plugin directory (wp-content/plugins) 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Optional: If you have special design concepts in mind you can get a summary directly using the following code in your template files at the place you want it to appear: ## FAQ Can I have the admin page in my native language? Since 1.7 Link Summarizer uses WordPress’ localization features. To use it, set WPLANG ind wp-config.php to your locale, e.g. for german use define(‘WPLANG’, ‘de_DE’) At the moment Link Summarizer is only available in english (default) and german. If you want your native language to be included, please help to translate. It’s really simple, please contact me using the plugin homepage. I want to enable/disable the display of the summary on a single post differtently from the default setting. What can I do? = You can use a custom variable called “lnsum_show” (without parantheses). You can set it to “1” to enable the summary, or “0” to disable it. You can also use this feature to control the display of the link summary on the index page and in RSS feeds. There are additional options available to enable the use of the pre post settings in these areas. Check out the admin panel of Link Summarizer for more information. I have other plugins that interfere with Link Summarizer. What can I do? Since 1.6.2 it is possible to adjust the priority of the plugin execution. By default Link Summarizer uses a default priority of 20 (in opposite to Wordpress default of 10). As most other plugins use a priority of 10 Link Summarizer is executed after the other plugins. This is especially needed if you use MarkDown plugins, which replace HTML shorthands with correct HTML tags. But if you e.g. use plugins like Twitter Tool or Sociable and don’t want to filter out these links using regular expressions, simply set the priority of Link Summarizer to a value lower than 10 and give it a try. But keep in mind that if you also use plugins which need Link Summarizer to be run afterwards, you can’t use this option and must filter out via regular expressions. Is it possible to use CSS to style the summarizer? Yes, since version 1.4.1 it is possible. I set the surrounding div tag to use the css class “link-summarizer”. For details see the included file style.css.sample. If you use then template function, the enclosing div uses the css class “link-summarizer- loop”. The contents of the surrounding div tag can be configured completely through the admin interface independently for the manually used template function and the automatic variant. To use the CSS styling you have to include appropriate CSS code in your theme stylesheet. Is it possible to decide if the URL or the link text get shown in the summary? Yes, this is also a new feature included in 1.4.1. In the Admin panel there’s an option for it. I have special design needs. Starting with version 1.5 the design of the output the pluging produces is completely configurable in the admin interface ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8bb8b91d3c1c3feefa8735f406fbdbfa5a2680ac79309d5f86671beaa31efe3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Does One Thing Very Well!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-one-thing-very-well-2/)󠁿 [jonez](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonez/) March 30, 2017 Link Summarizer does a great job of pulling out links from a post and listing them. The admin page provides and incredible amount of customization, and a little bit of CSS handles the rest. Warning: due to its age, this plugin doesn’t appear to be PHP 7.0 compatible. [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Link Summarizer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ GrafZahl ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grafzahl/) * [ rigacha ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rigacha/) [Translate “Link Summarizer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/link-summarizer) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/link-summarizer/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/link-summarizer/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/link-summarizer/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/link-summarizer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Meta * Version **1.8** * Last updated **17 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 2.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **2.8** * Tags * [links](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)[post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-summarizer/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/link-summarizer/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ GrafZahl ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/grafzahl/) * [ rigacha ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rigacha/) ## Support Got something to say? 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