BetterLinks Abilities
BetterLinks exposes abilities to create, update and delete branded short links, manage their categories and tags, pull click analytics, and read or update plugin settings, so an AI assistant can run link shortening, cloaking and redirect workflows without opening the BetterLinks dashboard.
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Requires the BetterLinks plugin; wp_register_ability() is available on any of BetterLinks's own supported WordPress versions (5.3+), not just 6.9+, because BetterLinks bundles its own copy of the WordPress Abilities API instead of depending on WordPress core to ship it natively, and abilities register regardless of the plugin's own MCP toggle. Every ability requires the 'manage_options' capability, enforced by BetterLinks's own permission_callback on top of BetterLinks's REST controllers.
Create a category or tag
Writebetterlinks/create-term
Create a new link category or tag.
Create a short link
Writebetterlinks/create-link
Create a new BetterLinks short link with a slug, target URL, redirect type and category.
Delete a category or tag
Writebetterlinks/delete-term
Delete a link category or tag by ID; protected terms such as Uncategorized cannot be deleted.
Delete a short link
Writebetterlinks/delete-link
Permanently delete a short link and its click data by ID.
Get analytics for one link
Read-onlybetterlinks/get-link-analytics
Get click analytics for a single short link by its ID over a date range.
Get BetterLinks settings
Read-onlybetterlinks/get-settings
Get the current BetterLinks plugin settings.
Get click analytics
Read-onlybetterlinks/get-analytics
Get overall click analytics — total and unique clicks across all links for a date range.
Get click trend graph data
Read-onlybetterlinks/get-analytics-graph
Get time-series click totals for charts across a date range.
List BetterLinks short links
Read-onlybetterlinks/list-links
List every short link on the site, grouped by category, with click counts.
List link categories
Read-onlybetterlinks/list-categories
List all BetterLinks link categories with their link counts.
List link tags
Read-onlybetterlinks/list-tags
List all BetterLinks link tags with their link counts.
Rename a category or tag
Writebetterlinks/update-term
Rename an existing link category or tag.
Update a short link
Writebetterlinks/update-link
Update an existing short link's title, target URL, slug, redirect type, category or status.
Update BetterLinks settings
Writebetterlinks/update-settings
Update one or more BetterLinks settings; only the keys passed are changed, everything else is preserved.
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