LinkAuthority Partners

LinkAuthority is a link-exchange network. Members list each other’s businesses on a “Business Partners” page, giving every participating site a set of relevant, editorially presented outbound links.

This plugin renders that directory on your site and keeps it current. Add the shortcode [linkauthority_partners] to any page – or let the plugin create a ready-made Business Partners page for you – and the listing updates itself as businesses join or leave the network.

What it does

• Renders the partner directory anywhere via the [linkauthority_partners] shortcode
• Refreshes hourly, plus an immediate update when the network changes
• Ships responsive card styling that inherits nothing from, and overrides nothing in, your theme
• Adds Schema.org ItemList structured data describing the listed businesses
• Optional page-view reporting, so your LinkAuthority dashboard can show how the page performs
• Optional “Site by LinkAuthority” credit link

Both optional features are off by default and stay off until you turn them on.

External service

This plugin requires a free account at LinkAuthority and does not function without one. It is a client for that service.

Once you save your site token in the LinkAuthority menu in your sidebar, the plugin contacts https://www.linkauthority.live to:

• register your site as active on the network, and mark it inactive again when you deactivate the plugin (your site token and site URL are sent)
• download the current list of partner businesses, hourly and on demand (your site token is sent)
• report your Business Partners page view count, only if you enable that option (your site token and a single running total are sent – never any visitor details)

The plugin also exposes one authenticated REST route, linkauthority/v1/update, which LinkAuthority calls to trigger an immediate refresh. Requests must present your site token, which is compared in constant time; nothing else is accepted.

Service terms: https://www.linkauthority.live/terms-of-service
Privacy policy: https://www.linkauthority.live/privacy-policy