VS Link Manager is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
VS Link Manager is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Guido. With a rating of 5.0★ from 2 reviews.
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VS Link Manager is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Guido — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How VS Link Manager works
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About With this lightweight plugin you can display a set of links from the Link Manager.
The Link Manager is part of WordPress but disabled by default. This plugin will activate it again.
Main features of the plugin:
Free and lightweight
Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor
Display your link list with block, shortcode or widget
Customize your link list with attributes
Documentation at WP plugin page
Active support from developer at WP forum
With this plugin you can also create a blogroll or link portal in the same way as a link list.
How to use After installation go to menu item “Links” and create some categories and links. Links must be assigned to a category.
Go to the editor and add the VS Link Manager block or the shortcode [links] to a page. This will display your link list.
Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Link Manager widget.
Default settings categories:
4 columns when using block or shortode
1 column when using widget
2 columns in small screens
Order by name
Ascending order (A-Z)
Empty categories are hidden
Default settings links:
Order by name
Ascending order (A-Z)
All links are displayed
Customize your link list with attributes.
Attributes You can customize your link list by adding attributes to the block, shortcode or widget.
Add custom CSS class to link list: class="your-class-name"
Change the number of columns: columns="3"
Disable the columns: columns="0"
Include certain categories: include="1,3,5"
Exclude certain categories: exclude="8,10,12"
Display empty categories too: hide_empty="0"
Display category description: category_description="true"
Change the number of links per category: links_per_category="5"
Reverse the order of links: order="DESC"
Display links by ID: orderby="ID"
Display links in random order: orderby="rand"
Hide link title: link_title="false"
Hide link description: link_description="false"
Change feed label: feed_label="your label"
Change the “no categories are found” text: no_categories_text="your text"
Example: [links include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"]
When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.
Example: include="1,3,5" category_description="true" links_per_category="5"
With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4.
In small screens max 2 colums.
You can disable the columns in favour of your own styling.
The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block or widget. Because you can set the columns via the block or widget settings.
With the “hide link title” attribute you can hide the link title if the link has an image assigned to it. This way you can display the link image only, instead of both.
Widget This plugin activates the Links widget again. Because this widget is part of WordPress, plugin has no control over it.
You can use the VS Link Manager widget instead.
Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section.
Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.
More translations are very welcome!
The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.
Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!
Keyword rankings
VS Link Manager ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.faqRank #611
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What is VS Link Manager?
VS Link Manager is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Guido.