GT Link Manager

GT Link Manager is a free WordPress plugin for branded short links, affiliate link management, country-based redirects, and opt-in click analytics. Create reusable links, find out where they are clicked, and manage them from the WordPress admin, block editor, or REST API. There are no premium tiers or upsells.

Redirects use indexed custom database tables and resolve before theme templates load. Advanced Analytics adds no visitor tracking scripts, cookies, or beacon requests.

Your links follow a clean URL pattern: yoursite.com/go/your-slug (the prefix is configurable and can even be removed on individual links).

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Advanced Analytics: See Where Your Links Get Clicked

Advanced Analytics adds reports alongside the existing lifetime click counter. It stays off until you explicitly enable it under GT Links > Analytics > Settings. No analytics tables, options, records or maintenance jobs are created before opt-in.

• Find your strongest links. View click totals, daily or hourly trends, and the links used within a selected period or category.
• See the referring post or URL. The separate Clicked from report lists every matching recorded entry with pagination and resolves published WordPress post titles where possible. Open a page report to see which links were clicked there, then inspect an individual link within that same page.
• Switch breakdowns instantly. Sources, countries, devices, browsers, operating systems and configured campaigns are loaded with the report. Switching tabs does not reload the page or fetch another report.
• Read the chart clearly. The chart fits the recorded activity period while preserving real time spacing. View click totals opens a scrollable popup with exact values.
• Use WordPress time. Dates, hourly/day grouping and CSV timestamps follow the timezone configured in WordPress, including fractional offsets and daylight-saving changes.
• Keep the context when exporting. Date, category, link and referring-page selections carry into CSV exports. Configured UTM combinations can be tracked as campaigns.
• Choose what to retain. Individual click records default to seven days and reports to ninety days. Choose Forever to keep reports until you delete them; individual records still expire separately.
• Pause or remove analytics independently. Turning collection off keeps existing reports under their retention policy. Deleting analytics removes its records and jobs while preserving links and basic counts.

Collection uses a compact server-side write on eligible GET redirects. PHP-FPM can finish the redirect response before recording the event; other hosts complete that write synchronously. No visitor JavaScript, cookies, beacons, IP storage, fingerprinting or external analytics service is added. Referring URLs omit credentials, query strings and fragments; raw user agents are not retained.

Recognized bots, prefetches and signed-in link managers are excluded. These reports count eligible redirect requests, not unique people or conversions. Browsers may report an external website, only its origin, or no referrer. Earlier clicks without page information remain Page unavailable, with a short explanation. External referrers are kept and explained rather than automatically treated as spam.

Reports and page-specific breakdowns are summarized by a bounded maintenance worker. Keep WordPress cron or a system scheduler running. Storage and processing safeguards can pause collection while preserving existing reports. Historical data can be viewed in date windows of up to ninety days. Advanced Analytics currently supports single-site installations.

The Privacy and data section links to WordPress’s suggested Privacy Policy text. Administrators control analytics by default; developers can use gtlm_analytics_capability for report access and gtlm_analytics_should_record to suppress events, including consent integrations. Site-owner opt-in is not a legal consent exemption.

This is a test build, not a published stable WordPress.org release.

Why GT Link Manager?

A branded link is a redirect with a job: it has to resolve fast, survive a thousand siblings, and never become the slowest thing on the page. GT Link Manager stores links in custom database tables, not custom post types. It intercepts the request on init at priority 0, looks up the slug in a UNIQUE-indexed column, sends the redirect header, and exits.

No theme loading. No template stack. No post query.

Storing links as custom post types means a redirect wakes up more of WordPress than a redirect needs. Custom tables keep the resolution path short, and it stays short whether you have 20 links or 2,000.

Key Features

• Advanced Analytics. Optional click trends, referring-page drilldowns, instant breakdown tabs, WordPress-time reports and CSV export, with no visitor scripts or cookies.
• Fast direct redirects. Resolves links on init (priority 0) via direct DB lookup, no CPT overhead
• 301, 302, and 307 redirects. Choose the right redirect type for SEO, temporary, or method-preserving redirects
• Rel attribute controls. Set nofollow, sponsored, and ugc per link for proper SEO attribution
• Noindex support. Sends X-Robots-Tag: noindex header to prevent search engines from indexing redirect URLs
• Categories and tags. Organize links into categories with parent/child hierarchy and free-form tags
• Full admin list table. Search, filter by category/status, sort by any column, and perform bulk actions
• Quick Edit. Update URL, slug, redirect type, rel, category, and status inline without leaving the list
• Activate / Deactivate. Disable a link without deleting it; inactive links stop redirecting but stay in the database
• Trash and restore. Soft-delete links to trash with the option to restore or permanently delete
• CSV import and export. Import links from CSV with column mapping preview, or export filtered links; includes LinkCentral and Pretty Links compatible presets. Manual column mapping also supports compatible CSV exports from ThirstyAffiliates, ClickWhale, Lasso, BetterLinks, GeniusLink, and others. Map the name and destination URL fields, review the preview, and choose how to handle duplicates.
• Block editor integration. Search and insert managed links into rich text and the core Button block without leaving the editor
• Branded URL preview. See the full branded URL as you type, with one-click copy
• Prefix-free and regex redirects. Route ordinary paths without /go/, or use regular expressions and capture groups for more complex rules. Protected WordPress endpoints cannot be claimed by redirect rules.
• Geolocation targeting. Send visitors from different countries to different destinations on a per-link basis (e.g. India to amazon.in, the US to amazon.com). The country comes from a header your CDN already sends, whether that is Cloudflare, CloudFront, Vercel, App Engine, or an nginx/Apache GeoIP module, so there is no GeoIP database to install and no external lookup. Links without country rules skip country detection.
• Independent lifetime counts. Optional running totals remain separate from Advanced Analytics. When analytics is enabled, click a count in All Links to open that link’s report.
• Click tracking integrations. For per-visit analytics, hook gtlm_before_redirect and send events to GA4, Plausible, Fathom, Matomo, or Simple Analytics
• AI and REST API workflows. Create, update, categorize, trash and restore links through authenticated endpoints. The settings page links directly to the AI-tools guide.
• Safer CSV handling. Preview and map columns before import. Temporary files stay outside public uploads, and spreadsheet-style formulas are neutralized on export.
• Data cleanup controls. Restore trashed links, configure trash retention, and choose whether uninstall removes plugin data.
• Developer-friendly. Actions and filters for redirect interception, URL modification, capability control, cache TTL, and more

Developer Hooks

GT Link Manager provides a comprehensive set of hooks for customization:

• gtlm_before_redirect, action fired before redirect (use for click tracking or logging)
• gtlm_redirect_url, filter to modify the destination URL
• gtlm_redirect_code, filter to modify the HTTP status code
• gtlm_rel_attributes, filter to modify rel attribute values
• gtlm_headers, filter to modify redirect response headers
• gtlm_prefix, filter to override the URL prefix
• gtlm_capabilities, filter to override the required user capability
• gtlm_cache_ttl, filter to set object cache TTL for link lookups
• gtlm_geo_country, filter the detected country code (plug in any detection method you like)
• gtlm_geo_sources, filter the list of request variables checked for a country
• gtlm_geo_country_groups, filter country groups usable in rules (ships with EU)
• gtlm_geo_matched_rule, filter the resolved geo rule before the redirect is sent
• gtlm_geo_blocked, action fired when a visitor is blocked by a geo rule’s 404 fallback
• gtlm_link_not_found, action fired when a prefixed link cannot be resolved and a 404 is sent
• gtlm_404_on_missing_link, filter to disable the 404 for unresolved prefixed links and fall through to WordPress instead
• gtlm_trash_purged, action fired after trashed links are automatically purged, with the count and retention window
• gtlm_count_click, filter to skip counting a particular click (exclude logged-in editors, add bot filtering)
• gtlm_click_recorded, action fired after a click has been counted
• gtlm_analytics_should_record, filter to suppress an advanced analytics event
• gtlm_analytics_capability, filter the capability required to view analytics reports

Click Counting

Click counting is off when you install the plugin, and that default is deliberate. With basic counts and advanced analytics both off, GT Link Manager stores no request analytics. Its privacy-policy guidance reflects the enabled features.

Turn it on from GT Links > Settings and each link starts keeping one number: how many times it has been followed. That is the whole record. What it stores per click:

• nothing about the visitor
• no IP address
• no user agent
• no referrer
• no timestamp

Basic counts are separate from detailed analytics and do not identify visitors. Choose consent requirements according to your site and integrations.

The count uses an atomic update. Where PHP-FPM supports fastcgi_finish_request(), the response can finish first; other hosts perform the update synchronously.

Where the number shows up:

• a sortable Clicks column in All Links; it opens analytics when enabled and you have report access
• a Reset Clicks row action for a single link
• the total_clicks field in the REST API, read-only
• a total_clicks column in CSV export

Use gtlm_count_click to skip clicks you do not want counted, such as your own logged-in visits.

Basic counting answers “which of my links get used.” Enable the separate advanced analytics feature for dated reports, referring websites, countries, and device families. For external integrations, the Developer Reference has step-by-step guides for wiring gtlm_before_redirect into GA4, Plausible, Fathom, Matomo, Simple Analytics, or a click log table of your own.

Free Training Course

The GT Link Manager Training is a free course covering installation through developer integrations. Most lessons run 3 to 5 minutes, so you can read the 1 you need instead of the whole thing.

Straight to the lesson for a specific feature:

• Getting Started covers the admin screens and your first link
• Managing Links covers editing, quick edit, status, and trash
• Link Categories covers organizing a large library
• Settings and Configuration covers the prefix, defaults, and advanced modes
• The Redirect System covers 301, 302, 307, and how resolution works
• Block Editor Integration covers the GT Link toolbar button and the Button block
• Import and Export covers the Pretty Links and LinkCentral presets and column mapping
• Geolocation Targeting covers per-country rules and CDN header detection
• REST API Reference covers every endpoint and its arguments
• Hooks and Filters covers all the extension points
• Troubleshooting covers redirects that do not fire and slugs that collide

Source and Issue Tracker

GT Link Manager is developed in the open. The full source, including the block editor code that ships compiled in the plugin, is on GitHub:

• Repository for the code and release history
• Issues for bugs and feature requests
• Releases for changelogs and downloadable builds

A bug report with your WordPress version, PHP version, and the slug that misbehaved is usually enough to reproduce it.

Support

Support runs through the WordPress.org support forum for this plugin. That is the fastest route for every kind of problem, and it is the one to use first.

Post there and the answer stays public, so the next person with the same redirect loop finds it without asking again.

What helps a thread get solved on the first reply:

• your WordPress and PHP versions
• the link slug and the prefix you configured
• what you expected the redirect to do, and what it actually did
• whether a CDN or page cache sits in front of the site

For a suspected bug in the code itself, GitHub Issues works too, and a security report should go to the maintainer privately rather than into a public thread.

What Makes GT Link Manager Stand Out

Plenty of plugins will shorten a URL for you. These are the things this one does that shaped how it was built.

Everything is free. Advanced Analytics, geolocation targeting, the full REST API, CSV import and export, regex and prefix-free redirects, the block editor tools. There is no Pro tier holding a feature back, no upsell notice in the admin, no telemetry, and no account to create. Nothing here is a trial.

Redirects resolve before theme templates load. The lookup runs on init at priority 0, against a UNIQUE-indexed slug column in a custom table. Match found, header sent, exit. No theme template or post lookup is required to resolve a matched short link.

Dead links return a real 404. A trashed or deactivated link stops resolving and says so with the correct status code. It does not quietly serve your front page at HTTP 200, which is what turns a retired affiliate link into duplicate home-page content in a search index.

Geolocation costs nothing when you do not use it, and no database when you do. Country detection reads a header your CDN already attaches, so there is no GeoIP file to install or keep updated and no external service in the request path. Links that do not opt in never trigger detection at all.

The REST API covers the whole link lifecycle. Create, read, update, trash, restore, and bulk-categorise, with a self-describing schema. That makes the plugin scriptable, and it is why AI tooling can manage links without a browser session.

Click counting stores a number, not a person. Turn it on and each link keeps a running total. No IP address, no user agent, no referrer, no timestamp. The write happens after the redirect has already gone out.

Your links stay yours. CSV import reads other plugins’ exports so you can move in, and CSV export gives you everything back, geo rules included, so you can move out. Uninstall removes only what you tell it to remove.

Honest limits, because they matter more than the list above:

• basic counts show lifetime totals; optional advanced analytics adds dated reports, referring websites, and coarse device families
• country detection is only as trustworthy as the CDN in front of it. A forged header on an origin with nothing proxying it is still a forged header
• there is no automatic keyword linking. Links go where you put them
• it is a young plugin, and a young plugin has seen fewer edge cases than an old one

Analytics & Advanced Integrations

The Developer Reference …

1. Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate it from Plugins.
3. Go to GT Links in your wp-admin sidebar.
4. Create your first link and test it using your prefix (default: yoursite.com/go/your-slug).

You can change the prefix from GT Links > Settings at any time.

1. 

   All Links, admin list with search, filters, status views, and bulk actions

2. 

   Add/Edit Link, form with branded URL preview, redirect type, rel attributes, and categories

3. 

   Categories, manage link categories with parent/child hierarchy

4. 

   Settings, configure prefix, defaults, flush permalinks, and run diagnostics

5. 

   Import/Export, CSV import with column mapping preview and preset support

1.9.0

• Add opt-in Advanced Analytics with WordPress-time trends, referring-page and link reports, instant breakdown tabs, and CSV exports.
• Keep analytics lightweight with no visitor scripts, cookies or beacons, bounded background processing, and configurable retention including Forever reports.
• Simplify settings, improve accessibility and diagnostics, and add a copyable AI setup prompt.
• Fix direct/regex REST paths, CSV roundtrips, redirect matching, and click-counter metadata.
• Harden protected WordPress routes, CSV upload storage, and spreadsheet exports.

1.8.1

• New: a copy button on the Branded URL column. It appears when you hover the row or focus it with the keyboard, copies the full branded link, and confirms with an inline Copied badge that clears itself.
• New: the plugin’s own icon now appears in the admin menu, replacing the generic WordPress link dashicon. It is painted as a mask filled with the menu’s own text colour, so it matches the icons beside it in every state and every admin colour scheme, staying light on dark sidebars and dark on light ones.
• Updated: refreshed the WordPress.org plugin icon.

1.8.0

• Fixed: the links table collapsed narrow columns when many were shown at once. With every column visible, Mode and Clicks were squeezed to a few pixels and their values wrapped one character per line. Every column now has a minimum width, the wide ones wrap instead of being clipped, and the table scrolls sideways on its own rather than stretching the admin page.
• New: Optional click counting, off by default. Turn it on under Settings and each link gets a running total of how many times it has been followed, shown as a sortable Clicks column and included in CSV export. It stores one number per link and nothing else — no IP address, user agent, referrer, or timestamp — and the count is written after the redirect has already been sent, so the redirect itself is not slowed down. The plugin’s suggested privacy-policy text updates itself to match whichever setting you choose. Use gtlm_count_click to skip clicks you do not want counted.
• Fixed: a deleted, trashed, or deactivated short link returned HTTP 200 with the site’s front page instead of a 404. The prefix rewrite rule matches the whole namespace, so an unresolved slug fell through to the home page, and search engines could index every dead link as duplicate front-page content. Unresolved prefixed links now return a real 404 rendered by the theme’s own template. Direct and regex mode still fall through untouched, and the gtlm_404_on_missing_link filter restores the old behaviour.
• Fixed: rel values separated by spaces were silently discarded. The plugin writes space-separated rel into Link headers and core Button blocks, but only accepted commas on input, so round-tripping a value emptied it. Commas, spaces, and arrays are all accepted now, and the allowed-token validation is unchanged.
• Fixed: the Active, Inactive, and Trash views were implemented but never rendered, leaving them reachable only by typing the URL by hand. They now appear above the links table.
• Fixed: bulk actions ran while the page rendered, which gave no confirmation message and re-ran the action on a browser refresh. They now run before output and redirect to a clean URL with a result message.
• New: Undo. Trashing, restoring, activating, and deactivating a link now offer a one-click Undo in the success notice, for single links and bulk selections alike.
• New: Trash retention. Links left in the Trash can be permanently deleted after a configurable number of days, set under Settings. New installs start at 30 days. Existing sites are left at 0 (keep forever) on upgrade, so nothing already sitting in your Trash is deleted because you updated; switch it on yourself when you want it.
• New: Empty Trash button on the Trash view.
• Improved: the admin screens now inherit the WordPress admin surface instead of painting over it. Custom admin colour schemes, high-contrast mode, and reduced-motion preferences are all respected.
• Improved: accessibility. Row checkboxes and every filter dropdown have proper labels, keyboard focus is visible, and the notice area sits where WordPress expects it.
• Improved: long URLs no longer break across three lines in the links table. The Branded URL column shows the readable path, with the full URL on hover and in the Copy URL action.
• Improved: a fresh install now records its schema version during activation instead of re-running the migration on the first admin page load.
• Compatibility: Tested against WordPress 7.1. Verified on a WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.4 install: redirects, geolocation targeting, the REST API, CSV import and export, the links list table, and both block editor inserters all behave as before, with no deprecation notices raised.
• Compatibility: Confirmed the GT Link format and the core Button control still work inside the iframed block editor canvas, including search, insertion, and rel handling.

1.7.1

• Fixed: The GT Link toolbar now works with the core Button block by updating the Button’s native URL and rel attributes.
• Improved: Rich text and Button controls now share the same GT Link search popover, normalize rel attributes, and preserve noopener for buttons that open in a new tab.

1.7.0

• New: Geolocation targeting. Any link can route visitors to a different destination based on their country, with rules evaluated in order and the first country match winning.
• New: Country detection with zero dependencies. The country is read from request variables your CDN or web server already provides — Cloudflare (CF-IPCountry), CloudFront, Vercel, Google App Engine, nginx GeoIP2, Apache mod_geoip, mod_maxminddb, or a custom header you name. No GeoIP database file, no third-party API, no outbound request.
• New: EU country group expands to all 27 member states in a single rule; extendable via gtlm_geo_country_groups.
• New: Per-rule status codes, and a “show a 404” fallback for visitors matching no rule.
• New: Geolocation settings section with a live “Detected Now” readout showing which country and source resolved for the current request — the fastest way to confirm your CDN is forwarding a country header.
• New: “Check Detection” button. Lists every country header present on the request with its raw value, and runs a loopback self-test — it sends the site a request carrying a country header and reports what the plugin detected at the other end. That proves detection works even on a local or staging install with no CDN in front, where “no country on this request” is correct rather than a fault. Also validates a country code you type before you use it in a rule.
• New: The detection readout distinguishes “nothing is proxying this site, so no country is expected” from “your CDN is in front but sent no country header” — only the second is a misconfiguration, and it now says how to fix it.
• New: Rule builder in the link editor. Numbered rows show match precedence, rules can be reordered, one-click picks cover common markets (US + CA, EU, UK, India, AU + NZ), the long country list is filterable, selections show as removable chips, and the “Everyone else” fallback reads as the final row. It warns when a country is listed twice (only the highest rule can ever match) or when a rule has countries but no URL.
• New: Rule preview. Pick a country and see exactly which rule wins and where it sends — evaluated in the browser against your unsaved edits, with no request made.
• New: Privacy disclosure. The plugin registers a suggested privacy-policy section under Settings → Privacy → Policy Guide, and states inline that country detection reads only a CDN-provided header — never the visitor’s IP address, never an external service, and the country is never stored or logged.
• Fixed: a partial REST update (PATCH) of one field silently reset every field that was not included, because each write argument declared a schema default that WP_REST_Request materialises into the request. Sending only geo_rules would reset redirect_type to 301 — which quietly breaks geo targeting — and blank tags, notes, and rel. Omitted fields now keep their stored values. Create defaults are unchanged.
• New: Optional X-GTLM-Country debug response header showing the detected country, its source, and whether a rule matched.
• New: Geo rules are exposed in the REST API on /links (create, read, update) with a self-describing schema, so links can be geo-targeted programmatically. Posting geo_rules without geo_mode opts the link in automatically.
• New: Geo rules round-trip through CSV import and export; a malformed rules cell is dropped without failing the row.
• New: Geo column in the links list table, and geolocation status in Diagnostics.
• Performance: geolocation costs nothing on links that do not use it — the check is a single array read, and country detection is never invoked unless a matched link opts in. Detection and settings are resolved once per request.
• Note: geo-targeted links should use 302, not 301. A 301 is cached by the browser permanently, which pins a visitor to whichever country they were in on their first click. The link editor warns when a geo link is set to 301.
• Note: a country header can be forged on requests that reach your site without passing through your CDN, so the 404 fallback is not a security control. Behind Cloudflare, CF-IPCountry is rewritten at the edge and cannot be spoofed; the “Cloudflare only” detection method is the strictest setting.

1.6.1

• Fixed nonce mismatch bug — trash, restore, and permanent delete actions were failing due to inconsistent nonce prefixes.
• Fixed potential ReDoS vulnerability — removed error suppression on regex pattern matching, added pattern length validation.
• Standardized all nonce prefixes to gtlm_ across admin actions and list table.
• Added REST API route descriptions to all endpoints for better discoverability.
• Added object caching for admin category dropdown with proper invalidation on create, update, and delete.
• Updated readme with free training course, developer reference, REST API guide, and new FAQ entries.

1.6.0

• Added advanced redirects: Direct (prefix-free) and Regex (pattern-based) link modes.
• Direct links redirect without the prefix — e.g., yoursite.com/my-page instead of yoursite.com/go/my-page.
• Regex links match request paths against patterns with capture group substitution in destination URLs.
• New “Enable Advanced Redirects” toggle in Settings (off by default) to opt in.
• Link edit form shows mode selector (Standard / Direct / Regex) with contextual fields.
• Conflict detection warns when direct link paths match existing WordPress posts or pages.
• Regex patterns are validated on save; invalid patterns are rejected.
• List table shows link mode with filter support.
• REST API accepts and returns link_mode, regex_replacement, and priority fields.
• New database columns: link_mode, regex_replacement, priority — fully backwards compatible.

1.5.3

• Fixed plugin zip size bloat — excluded .wordpress-org assets directory from distribution package.

1.5.2

• Added “Delete Data on Uninstall” setting — data is now preserved by default when the plugin is deleted.
• Uninstall only removes tables and options if the user explicitly opts in via Settings.

1.5.1

• Fixed CSS custom properties not resolving on some admin pages — all values are now hardcoded.
• Fixed form-table double-card styling when rendered inside a card container.
• Improved edit form submit buttons layout — buttons now display in a single horizontal row.
• Improved branded URL preview styling with distinct blue tint.
• Added subtle row separators inside card form tables.
• Added WordPress.org SVN deploy to release workflow.
• Added plugin banner and icon assets for WordPress.org listing.

1.4.0

• Renamed internal code prefix from gt_ to gtlm_ (4+ characters) per WordPress.org guidelines.
• Fixed nonce verification order in CSV import handler — nonce is now checked before reading POST data.
• Fixed SQL injection vector — $orderby now uses %i identifier placeholder in prepared queries.
• Added Source Code section to readme for compiled block editor assets.
• Added card-based UI styling to all admin pages (edit link, categories, settings, import/export).
• Settings page reorganized into General, Tools, and Diagnostics cards.
• Clean uninstall now removes both old (gt_) and new (gtlm_) prefix options and tables.

1.3.1

• Block editor: aligned GT Link popover anchoring with core rich text behavior using selection-based anchor.

1.3.0

• Refactored admin into separate actions and rendering classes for maintainability.
• Added Pretty Links CSV import preset alongside Generic and LinkCentral.
• Improved input sanitization on redirect URI parsing.
• Added PHPCS configuration and Composer dev tooling.
• Added uninstall.php for clean plugin removal (drops tables and options).
• Improved build.sh with .distignore support and critical file verification.
• Improved release workflow with version verification, checksums, and distribution validation.
• Block editor popover anchor now uses bounding rect snapshot for reliable positioning.
• Button primary color now follows WordPress admin theme color.
• Lowered PHP requirement from 8.2 to 8.0.
• Tested up to WordPress 6.9.

1.2.3

• Fixed release packaging bug that accidentally removed blocks/link-inserter/build/* from zip assets.
• GitHub release workflow now compiles block editor assets before zipping and verifies build files exist.

1.2.2

• Fixed block editor link inserter not appearing on WordPress 6.8+.
• Removed deprecated useAnchor hook that crashed the toolbar button on render.
• Eliminated react-jsx-runtime dependency that prevented the script from loading on some WordPress versions.
• Popover now anchors to the toolbar button for reliable positioning.

1.2.0

• Fixed critical bug: links disappeared after 1.1.9 update because new DB columns were not added on plugin update (only on fresh activation).
• Added automatic DB migration that runs on update to add missing columns and backfill existing rows.
• Fixed WordPress admin sidebar menu getting unintended card styles on the Settings page.
• Improved Settings page: Flush Permalinks and Run Diagnostics buttons are now inline, diagnostics output uses a clean table layout with status badges.

1.1.9

• Added link activate/deactivate toggle. Inactive links stop redirecting but remain in the database.
• Delete now moves links to trash instead of permanent deletion. Links can be restored from trash.
• Trash view with restore and permanent delete actions.
• New bulk actions: Activate, Deactivate, Move to Trash, Restore, Delete Permanently.
• REST API: DELETE defaults to trash (use ?force=true for permanent). New /restore and /toggle-active endpoints.
• Status column and views (All / Active / Inactive / Trash) in the links list table.
• New is_active and trashed_at columns added to the links table on upgrade.

1.1.8

• Maintenance release.

1.1.7

• Block editor: Fixed editor scroll jump when opening GT Link popover from the toolbar.
• Block editor: Improved search input focus behavior so opening popover does not move viewport.

1.1.6

• REST API: Added full pagination (page, per_page, category_id, orderby, order) to GET /links endpoint.
• REST API: Added args schema validation to all write endpoints (links, categories, bulk-category).
• Security: Replaced innerHTML with DOM methods in admin quick edit to prevent XSS.
• DB: Added rel whitelist validation on filter queries.
• Build: build.sh now compiles block editor assets before packaging.

1.1.5

• Maintenance release.

1.1.4

• Anchor popover to selected text using useAnchor from @wordpress/rich-text.

1.1.3

• Fixed format registration conflict with core/underline on WP 6.9+ (both used bare span tag).
• Added unique className to avoid tagName collision.

1.1.2

• Switch to RichTextToolbarButton for standard format toolbar integration.

1.1.1

• Force-inject format into RichText allowedFormats for reliable toolbar display.

1.1.0

• Rebuilt block editor link inserter with @wordpress/scripts build pipeline.
• Fixed toolbar button not appearing in block editor.
• Proper dependency resolution via index.asset.php.

1.0.4

• Fixed toolbar button registration in block editor for GT Link inserter.
• Added selected-text autofill in GT Link inserter search field.
• Improved redirect detection for WordPress installs in subdirectories.

1.0.3

• Enhance block editor integration with additional dependencies and improved format registration

1.0.2

• Minor internal hardening and cleanup.

1.0.1

• Fixed uninstall to preserve links and settings data across reinstalls.

1.0.0

• Initial release.