LinkGather - An Overview



This plugin gives you the ability to export the URLs for all your websites articles in Excel format.

You can download the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Repository by searching for LinkGather, alternatively you can just go to the address below:

WordPress Plugin Repository Download


LinkGather WordPress Plugin

Once you have installed and activated the plugin, you can start using it.

Walkthrough


A new link on the menu side of your admin console will appear called LinkGather:

LinkGather Screenshot 1

When you hover over this title option, you will then see a sub-menu with the different sections available for you:

LinkGather Screenshot 2

Click on the Home title, this will go to the plugins home page which supplies instructions, similar to these, on how to use the plugin.

Post Links


Click the Post Links offering to take you to the page that will reveal all of your websites published posts’ links. Be aware that for the purposes of these instructions, we are using our demo test site with just a few links in it.

LinkGather Screenshot 3

You should now see a list with two columns, more info one for the title of your posts and another for the links of your posts. However how many posts you have will depend on how long this list will be.

Underneath the link list, you should see that LinkGather has click here also calculated how many post URL you have.

You then also have the option to download the articles in Google Spreadsheets style.

Page Links


The instructions is exactly the same for Page Links, however instead of showing back published URL, it will bring back published pages instead:

LinkGather Screenshot 4

JetPack URLs


The option for wp.me Links is again exactly the same method as those above, but, JetPack URL's are actually built in short links created by the JetPack plugin. If you have the JetPack plugin installed, you must have the short links option also enabled for our plugin to be able to gather those URL.

If you do not have the JetPack short links module enabled, our plugin will just pull back basic post links instead.

Assuming that you have JetPack short links enabled, clicking on our plugins wp.me Links option will bring back all those wp.me Links that it has gathered:

LinkGather Screenshot 5

Video Walkthrough


If you are still having problems using this plugin, you can view a demostration video walkthrough here:

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