LinkedIn Page Feed

A WordPress plugin that shows the latest posts from a LinkedIn Company Page as a card grid, using the official LinkedIn REST API.

Features

• [linkedin_feed] shortcode — works in the block editor, Classic editor, Elementor and any page builder with a Shortcode widget
• Card layout: Page logo and name, date, post text (3 lines), image or video thumbnail with play button, like and comment counts
• Whole card links to the post on LinkedIn
• Responsive grid: 1–6 columns, collapses to 2 / 1 on smaller screens
• One-click OAuth connection from the WordPress admin, with automatic token refresh
• Images, video thumbnails and the logo are stored once in wp-content/uploads/ — LinkedIn's image URLs expire and its image API has a low daily limit
• Cached feed (default 60 min); if LinkedIn is unreachable the last good posts are shown and retried after 5 minutes
• Errors are only visible to administrators; visitors never see a broken feed
• No external libraries

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+
• PHP 7.4+
• Site served over HTTPS (LinkedIn only allows http redirect URLs for localhost)
• A LinkedIn developer app with the Community Management API product, granting the scopes r_organization_social and rw_organization_admin
• A LinkedIn account that is an admin of the Page you want to show

Installation

1. Download this repository as a ZIP (or build one containing the linkedin-page-feed folder).
2. In WordPress go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, upload the ZIP and activate it.

Setup

1. LinkedIn app

In the LinkedIn Developer Portal, open your app's Auth tab:

1. Under Authorized redirect URLs, add the URL shown on the plugin's settings page. It looks like:

   https://your-site.com/wp-admin/admin-post.php?action=lpf_oauth_callback

   It must match exactly (protocol, www, subfolder).

2. Copy the Client ID and Primary Client Secret.

2. WordPress

Go to Settings → LinkedIn Feed:

Save, then click Connect LinkedIn and approve access. After connecting, the settings page lists every Page your account administers, with its ID and a ready-made shortcode.

To keep the secret out of the database, define it in wp-config.php instead:

define( 'LPF_CLIENT_SECRET', 'your-client-secret' );

Finding a Page ID

• Open the Page on LinkedIn as an admin — the URL is linkedin.com/company/<ID>/admin/
• Or connect the plugin and read it from the Your Pages table

Usage

[linkedin_feed]
[linkedin_feed org="1234567" count="12" cols="4"]

Elementor: drag a Shortcode widget onto the page and paste the shortcode.

Styling

The feed uses CSS custom properties that you can override in your theme or in Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS:

.lpf-grid {
  --lpf-accent: #1d6fb8;  /* Page name, links */
  --lpf-muted:  #6b7785;  /* text, date, counts */
  --lpf-bar:    #f5f8fc;  /* header and footer background */
  --lpf-border: #e3e8ef;  /* card border */
}

The font is inherited from your theme. Main class names: .lpf-card, .lpf-head, .lpf-text, .lpf-media, .lpf-foot.

How it works

Each media item is downloaded only once. After that, a cache refresh makes just two API calls (posts and statistics).

Stored data:

• Options: lpf_settings, lpf_token, lpf_feed_cache, lpf_orgs, lpf_media
• Files: wp-content/uploads/linkedin-page-feed/

The access token (60 days) is refreshed automatically while the refresh token is valid (about one year). After that, click Reconnect in the settings.

Limitations

• Document (PDF/carousel) posts and polls are shown as text only
• Only the first image of multi-image posts is shown
• The like count is LinkedIn's likeCount statistic
• Text is shown as plain text; hashtags and mentions are kept as words, not links
• The first load after connecting downloads all images and may take a few seconds

Uninstall

Deleting the plugin from Plugins removes all its options and the stored images. Deactivating keeps them.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later