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The "plug and play" approach to LittleLink
Function • About • Demo • Features • Installation • Updating • Discord • Fork structure • License • Supporters • Special thanks • Additional credit
Function
LittleLink Custom provides you with a website similar to Linktree. Many social media platforms only allow you to add one link, with this you can simply link to your LittleLink Custom page and have all the links you want displayed on one site. You can share all your links to your social media platform or important links to easy accessible and hosted on your own web-server or web-hosting provider. On this website, other users can register and create their own links, you can access other user via the Admin Panel.
About
LittleLink Custom is a fork of LittleLink Admin with a set goal of making the admin panel easier to use and setup, for inexperienced and first-time user's, with the addition of many custom features themed around customization for the individual users, LittleLink pages.
LittleLink Custom was made for the purpose of making LittleLink as well as LittleLink Admin easier to use and setup, by people who have never coded before nor have extensive web hosting knowledge. This project is set up in a way that you can just drag and drop the LittleLink Custom directory onto your web host's root directory without ever having to touch the source code or deal with pesky terminal commands.
In addition to an easier setup process, this fork adds many custom features for an improved and more feature rich user experience. All UI pages feature a dark mode, which automatically applies if your operating system's or browser theme is set to dark. LittleLink Custom adds light unobtrusive CSS animations for an esthetically pleasing responsive design. Many small changes like this have been implemented that add up to a substantial feature set that sets LittleLink Custom apart from other forks.
Demo
Try a live demonstration of the LittleLink page and all its features
This is a full-fledged demo of the website, complete with login and register functionality. Feel free to register your account and try out all the features of LittleLink Custom.Please take into account that performance on this page might not represent optimal performance achievable with LittleLink Custom due to compromises regarding our web hosting budget.
Features
| LittleLink Custom | LittleLink Admin¹ | LittleLink | |
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| Creating a link page with more than 30 buttons | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Code free setup | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Pinning important links | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Ordering links | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Counting clicks | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Managing users and pages and links | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Automatic dark mode detection | ✔️ | ✖️² | ❌ |
| Button hover animations | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Custom link option | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Social Share Preview for individual users | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Update notice if new version is available | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Built-in SMTP server | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Visual HTML editor to edit text | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Setup without command line | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Custom Theme support | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Built-in updater | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Button Editor with Font Awesome support | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Ability to customize Home Page | ✔️ | ❌ | ➖ |
¹littlelink-admin by latuminggi | ²Not fully implemented on most pages
All LittleLink Custom pages automatically apply the Dark Mode Theme if your preferred theme setting in your browser or operating system is set to dark.
Lightweight CSS animations
Custom Themes
Customize the look of your LittleLink Custom instance with themes. Themes allow you to change the look and feel of your site with a few clicks. Users can submit themes they created for everyone to download and use.
Contribute by designing your own themes. You can read more about contributing below.
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You can find all available Themes on here: littlelink-custom.com/themes
How to add themes
How to add themes to your LittleLink Custom instance
You can add your downloaded themes to your LittleLink Custom instance on the Admin Panel. Navigate to the 'Themes' tab and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Now click on Choose file and select your downloaded theme zip file. Now click on 'Upload theme' and you should be able to select your uploaded theme now.
Themes are envisioned to be made by users for users.
If you know a bit about CSS, consider making your own theme and adding it to the public directory. Everything is documented in the dedicated GitHub repository.
github.com/JulianPrieber/llc-themes/tree/main/contributing
Infinite button combinations with the built in Button Editor
Create custom background colors and gradients with as many colors you want.
Add custom icons with Font Awesome
Get a live preview of your edits.
Built in updater
This updater allows users to update their installation with just one click.
Installation
Downloading and installing steps:
- Download the latest release of LittleLink Custom and simply place the folder 'littlelink-custom' in the root directory of your website.
That's it! No coding no command line setup just plug and play.
Now access your install of LittleLink Custom with 'your-domain-name.com/littlelink-custom'.
- At first, you will be greeted with a 'MissingAppKeyException'.
- This is totally normal on first setups, simply click on the 'Generate app key' button and then 'Refresh now' and you're done.
You can now log in to the Admin Panel with the credentials:
- email:
admin@admin.com - password:
12345678
Optional configuration:
Optionally, you can change the app name in your ".env" file in the root directory of your LittleLink Custom installation. At the moment this is set to APP_NAME="LittleLink Custom" you can change "LittleLink Custom" to what ever you like. This setting defines the page title and welcome message.
Additionally, the littlelink-custom directory can be renamed to anything you see fit, further customizing your personal LittleLink Custom install.
Updating
When a new version is released, you will get an update notification on your Admin Panel.
Automatic one click Updater
This updater allows you to update your installation with just one click.
How to use the Automatic Updater:
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To update your instance, click on the update notification on your Admin Panel.
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Click on “Update automatically” and the updater will take care of the rest.
You can still download updates manually. New versions will are still uploaded to the GitHub repository as usual.
Before updating, the updater will create a backup. Your instance won’t save more than two backups at a time. You can download these updates from the created folder: backups\updater-backups.
If you switched your database to MySQL, your database will not be included in the backup.
Discord
Fork-Structure
Fork of a fork of a fork of LittleLink...
LittleLink fork-tree:
LittleLink
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└── LittleLink Admin
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└── LittleLink Admin (fork)
│
└── LittleLink Custom
LittleLink Custom is a fork of LittleLink Admin.
"LittleLink Admin is an admin panel for littlelink that provides you a website similar to Linktree."
LittleLink Admin is in itself a fork of LittleLink
"LittleLink is a lightweight DIY alternative to services like Linktree and many.link. LittleLink was built using Skeleton, a dead simple, responsive boilerplate—we just stripped out some additional code you wouldn't need and added in branded styles for popular services."
License
Supporters
You can support LittleLink Custom here. If you choose to support LittleLink Custom, you will get exclusive rewards such as access to a private LittleLink Custom instance hosted by us at llc.bio for free.
💖 Thank you:
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Stephen Marshall
Special-thanks
special thanks to:
- Seth Cottle for creating LittleLink the base of all this.
- Khashayar Zavosh for creating LittleLink Admin, the base framework of the admin panel and many other essentials features of this project.
- Aprillio Latuminggi (latuminggi) for creating the fork this fork is based on LittleLink Admin (fork)
Thank you!
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| Seth Cottle | Khashayar Zavosh | Aprillio Latuminggi |
| LittleLink | LittleLink Admin | LittleLink Admin (fork) |