Quicklinks (Public)

A WordPress plugin that creates a dedicated landing page for sharing shortcut links on your website (e.g. yourdomain.com/quicklinks/).

Built by Alex Chuc for Ironbark Marketing.

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Screenshots

Settings	Mobile	Tablet

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Features

• Customisable — Add a profile logo/image, background colour, and button colours
• Drag and drop — Rearrange links quickly without touching any code
• SEO-friendly — Links are served from your own domain

Requirements

• WordPress 5.6 or higher
• PHP 8.3 or higher
• Pretty permalinks enabled (Settings → Permalinks, anything other than "Plain")
• Tested up to WordPress 7.0.1

Installation

1. Download the plugin zip
2. In WordPress admin, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
3. Upload the zip and click Install Now
4. Activate the plugin
5. Go to the Quicklinks menu item in the WordPress sidebar to configure

The plugin serves the Quicklinks page directly at /quicklinks/ — no WordPress page is created, so there is nothing to accidentally delete. (Sites upgrading from pre-0.4.0 versions had an auto-created page; it is trashed automatically on upgrade.)

Usage

• Upload a profile image and set optional link colours via Quicklinks → Settings
• Add, remove, and reorder directory buttons using drag and drop
• Visit yourdomain.com/quicklinks/ to see the live page

CI/CD Pipeline

Defined in .github/workflows/quicklinks-release.yml.

Four-job chain on version tag push (v*.*.*):

validate → package → release → deploy-update-server

• validate — runs PHPCS against plugin source enforcing WordPress-Extra ruleset (superset of WordPress Coding Standards), plus php -l syntax check
• package — zips plugin source into a versioned artifact
• release — creates a GitHub Release with the zip attached, version extracted from README.txt metadata
• deploy-update-server — regenerates quicklinks.json manifest from README.txt and uploads zip + manifest to the self-hosted update server over FTPS; credentials are a dedicated FTP account jailed to the updates directory

PHPCS configuration in phpcs.xml. Dependencies pinned in composer.json (PHPCS 3.x + WPCS 3.x).

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Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Language	PHP
Standards	WordPress-Extra ruleset (PHPCS 3.x + WPCS 3.x)
Linting	PHPCS 3.x
CI/CD	GitHub Actions → GitHub Releases → self-hosted update server
Packaging	zip artifact
Updates	WordPress native update pipeline (update_plugins_* filter, WP 5.8+)

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License

Copyright © Ironbark Marketing. All rights reserved. Proprietary — not for redistribution.