The plug-and-play approach to LittleLink, with advanced features.
The open-source alternative to LinkTree and similar.
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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.
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.
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.
| LittleLink Custom | LittleLink Admin¹ | LittleLink | |
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| Creating a link page with more than 30 buttons | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Code free setup | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Ordering links | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Counting clicks | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Managing users and pages and links | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Automatic dark mode detection | ✔️ | ✖️² | ❌ |
| Arrange links via drag and drop | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| 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 | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| External Analytics 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.
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
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.
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
- Download the latest release of LittleLink Custom and simply place the folder 'littlelink-custom' or the contents of this folder in the root directory of your website.
When accessing your instance for the first time, you will be greeted by the first setup page.
The official docker version of LittleLink Custom. This docker image is a simple to set up solution, containing everything you need to run LittleLink Custom.
The docker version of LittleLink Custom retains all the features and customization options of the original version.
This docker is based on Alpine Linux, a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple and secure. The web server is running Apache2, a free and open-source cross-platform web server software. The docker comes with PHP 8.0 for high compatibility and performance.
docker pull julianprieber/littlelink-custom
When a new version is released, you will get an update notification on your Admin Panel.
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.
Fork of a fork of a fork of LittleLink...
LittleLink
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└── LittleLink Admin
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└── LittleLink Admin (fork)
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└── 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."
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.ovh for free.
💖 Thank you:
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Stephen Marshall
- 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)
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| Seth Cottle | Khashayar Zavosh | Aprillio Latuminggi |
| LittleLink | LittleLink Admin | LittleLink Admin (fork) |
Thank you for improving LittleLink Custom!
Thank you for all your efforts!