Linkjet

Changelog

1.5.3

• Change: translations are no longer shipped inside the plugin. They come from translate.wordpress.org, where anyone can contribute and WordPress installs them automatically.
• Change: every table name now goes through the %i identifier placeholder of wpdb::prepare(), so no query builds its own SQL from an interpolated name. Because %i needs WordPress 6.2, that is the new minimum version.
• Change: the bundled translation loader now handles all translation loading on its own; the redundant load_plugin_textdomain() call was removed. Behaviour is unchanged, including the language override setting.
• Fix: four strings with placeholders now carry a translators comment, so translators can see what the placeholder stands for.
• Change: input is sanitised at the point of entry as well, not only in the data layer. No behavioural change; the data layer already cleaned every value.
• Change: database queries, view templates and view filters now carry the reasoning for the coding-standard exceptions they need, so reviewers and contributors can see why they are there.

1.5.1

• Change: English is now the source language of all interface strings. German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch were bundled with that release; as of 1.5.3 translations come from translate.wordpress.org instead. The language setting keeps working as before.
• Change: tested up to WordPress 7.1.

1.5.0

• New: regular-expression redirects. Patterns are validated when you save (an invalid pattern is refused instead of silently never matching) and can be tested against a sample path right in the editor. Back-references $1–$9 are available in the target URL.
• New: conflict guard. Before saving, Linkjet warns you if a redirect would shadow an existing page, overlap another rule, or affect critical paths such as checkout, login or the REST API. Redirect loops are refused outright.
• New: the 404 monitor separates real broken links from bot traffic and vulnerability-scanner probes (wp-config, phpmyadmin, cgi-bin and friends). The badge counts real 404s only, noise has its own tab, and a configurable row limit rotates the log automatically so it cannot grow forever.
• New: the import wizard understands the Pretty Links 4.0 data model, including installations left half-migrated by that upgrade. Columns are detected instead of assumed, and entries without a target URL are reported rather than dropped silently.
• New: REST endpoint POST /links/test-pattern and a noise filter on GET /404s; both are documented in the OpenAPI manifest.
• Fix: the language setting works again. Since WordPress 6.5 loads bundled translation files by itself, the plugin’s own language override was silently ignored – picking e.g. French on an English site kept showing English. An explicitly chosen language now takes precedence.
• Fix: the conflict guard’s warnings and several other new texts were only available in German; all six languages are complete again.
• Fix: two placeholder texts in the admin UI were hard-coded in German and stayed German in every language.

1.4.2

• Fix: bulk-deleting links now fires linkjet_link_deleted for each link so add-ons can clean up their data (previously only single deletes did).
• New: linkjet_links_purged action fires when a backup import replaces all links – add-ons must clear link-related data there because link IDs are reused after the reset.

1.4.1

• Fix: the per-link nofollow setting is now also applied to the redirect itself via an X-Robots-Tag: nofollow response header – previously it only affected shortcode/block HTML, so search engines still followed cloaked affiliate redirects. Links with nofollow disabled stay dofollow (no header). New filter linkjet_redirect_robots to customise the directives (e.g. add noindex).

1.4.0

• New: developer hooks and filters so add-ons can extend Linkjet cleanly (linkjet_before_redirect, linkjet_redirect_target, linkjet_click_logged, linkjet_link_created/_updated/_deleted, linkjet_admin_menu, linkjet_admin_tabs, linkjet_link_edit_fields, linkjet_after_save_link, linkjet_settings_fields, linkjet_after_save_settings, linkjet_link_row_actions, linkjet_rest_prepare_link). See HOOKS.md.

1.3.1

• New: case-insensitive redirect fallback – redirects now also catch differently-cased URLs (e.g. /Programm and /PROGRAMM), but only when the URL would otherwise return a 404, so real pages are never hijacked.
• Change: removed promotional wording from the plugin name/description and assets.

1.3.0

• New: dedicated manage_linkjet capability – administrators always keep access; editors can optionally be granted access without full admin rights.

1.2.1

• Fix: slugs now preserve upper/lower case (e.g. /Programm); exact redirect matching is case-sensitive so an existing lower-case page is not hijacked.

1.2.0

• New: 404 monitor – logs dead URLs and turns them into redirects, with REST support for AI-assisted maintenance.
• New: REST endpoints for settings (/settings) and a machine-readable API manifest (/openapi).
• Fix: reliable UI translation loading, independent of the WordPress translation-file parser.

1.1.0

• New: performance cache for the redirect engine (slug index, avoids DB queries on non-matches).
• New: GDPR auto-cleanup – click logs are deleted automatically after X days via WP-Cron.
• New: device, browser and country statistics (country only from server/CDN headers, no external GeoIP DB).
• New: bulk actions in the link list (activate, deactivate, delete, assign category).
• New: slug collision warning when saving.
• New: QR code per link, generated locally (optional drop-in library, no external calls).
• New: Gutenberg block “Linkjet link”.
• New: import wizard for Pretty Links and Redirection (incl. click statistics).
• New: full JSON backup (admin + REST /export & /import).
• New: multilingual UI (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch) + language override.
• Security: protection against PHP object injection in the Redirection importer.

1.0.0

• Initial release.