Affiliate Links - Link Cloaking and Management

Cloak and manage your affiliate links, then actually track what they earn. Affiliate Links lets you turn long, messy affiliate URLs into clean branded links like yoursite.com/go/product, organise them, and serve them anywhere on your site. Connect a wecantrack account and the same links start tracking conversions server side, across 450+ affiliate networks, all the way into Google Analytics and your ad platforms. Other cloaking plugins stop at counting clicks. Affiliate Links, with wecantrack, shows you which clicks became sales. wecantrack was built by affiliate publishers in 2019 and is backed by a strategic investment from Awin, one of the world's largest affiliate networks. Why cloak your links

• Cleaner, more trustworthy links. Replace raw affiliate parameters with short branded URLs on your own domain.
• Protect your earnings. Keep network and tracking details out of sight of competitors and link scrapers.
• Higher click-through. Tidy links read as safer, so more readers click.
• Ad-network friendly. Cloaked links on your root domain are accepted where raw affiliate URLs are not.

Link management built in, free

• Click statistics. Track each click with details like browser, language and device.
• Conditional redirects. Send visitors to different destinations based on language or platform.
• 301, 302 and 307 redirects. Pick the redirect type per link.
• Nofollow and noindex. Control how search engines treat each link.
• Categories and slugs. Organise links into categories and include the category in the URL.
• Shortcode and HTML generator. Drop links into any post or page in a couple of clicks.
• Widgets. Show your most popular and most recent links anywhere.

Add wecantrack to turn clicks into conversions The link management above is free. Connect a wecantrack account to unlock server-side tracking, attribution and the full toolset no standalone cloaker offers:

• Server-side click tracking. Clicks are recorded on the server, so ad blockers cannot strip your tracking and your attribution coverage stays high.
• Conversion attribution across 450+ networks. Match every sale back to the click, page and traffic source that earned it.
• Affiliate Link Generator. Turn any product landing page URL into a properly formatted, trackable affiliate link in seconds. Add custom SubIDs to tag campaigns, content or placements, and pick the right network account from a single search, with no logging into multiple affiliate platforms.
• Monetisation Script. Automatically detect unmonetised product URLs in your existing content and swap them for wecantrack redirect URLs based on your connected partnerships. Turn pages you have already published into revenue, with no manual link building.
• Link Tester. Test your outgoing links manually or automatically to catch 404s, broken redirects and dead landing pages before they cost you commission. Includes out-of-stock detection for Amazon and Bol.com, CSV import and export, labels and full API automation.
• Google Analytics 4, Looker Studio, BigQuery and Zapier. Track affiliate conversions as purchase conversions in GA4, build custom dashboards, and pipe data to 6,000+ apps through Zapier.
• Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat and Outbrain. Feed real sales back to your ad platforms so smart bidding optimises on revenue, not clicks.
• Performance reports. One dashboard with advertiser, network, content, traffic source, campaign and transaction reports, so you can compare partners, pages and channels against previous periods.

Works with your existing setup Already cloaking with Pretty Links, ThirstyAffiliates, Lasso or Redirection? wecantrack tracking runs alongside them, placing the click ID during the redirect on top of your existing link cloaking, so you can add conversion data without changing how you work. The plugin is also compatible with Datafeedr product tables.

"Great report view, replace links and import/export tools. Place affiliate links in any place: posts, pages, e-books, YouTube video descriptions and see if they are clicked." Edward Bedarev, WordPress.org review

Rated 5 out of 5 on WordPress.org. Getting started Install and activate to start cloaking and managing links right away. To add tracking, create a wecantrack account (free 15-day trial, no credit card required) and connect your networks. Learn more on the wecantrack WordPress plugin page.

From your WordPress dashboard:

1. Go to Plugins, Add New.
2. Search for Affiliate Links.
3. Install and activate it from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org:

1. Download the Affiliate Links plugin.
2. Upload the affiliate-links directory to /wp-content/plugins/.
3. Activate it from your Plugins page.

Once activated:

1. Go to Affiliate Links, Settings, and set your preferences.
2. Go to Affiliate Links, Add New, and create your first link.
3. To add conversion tracking, connect a wecantrack account at https://wecantrack.com and follow https://wecantrack.com/wordpress/

3.3.0 - 1st July 2026

• Tested up to WordPress 7.0
• Set minimum PHP version to 7.4

3.2.1 - 26th May 2026 Update readme.txt 3.2.0 - 27th June 2025

• Bug & Security fixes

3.1.0 - 3rd February 2025

• Security fixes
• Added new feature: ability to generate affiliate links via We Can Track

3.0.1 Rebranded plugin. Updated description. 3.0 Added advanced functionality: reports for links, the ability to export and import links, the ability to replace links in the database, display the link in the iframe, setting the custom target url according to conditions such as checking the browser, OS, platform or language of user. Added widgets to show the most popular and recent links. 2.9 Improved internationalization. Sanitised and escaped data. Improved file protection. Made SQL calls safety. 2.8 Tested up to WP version 6.6.1 2.7 Fixed Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability 2.6 Fix scripts tinymce. Compatible with WP 6.4.2 2.5 Minor bugfix and updates. Compatible with WP 6.2 2.2 Minor bugfix and updates 2.1 Minor bugfix 2.0 Improved shortcode generator, added ability to insert links in post content via dialog popup, fixed some issues 1.9 Bugfix and refactoring 1.8 Fixed some issues, added internationalization support, tested with WordPress 4.5 and up 1.7 Added ability to use category slug in link URL, added enable/disable/delete hooks, fixed some issues 1.6 Fixed some issues, added 'af_link_before_redirect' action for third-party customization, added faq and docs sections to the settings screen 1.5 Fixed some issues, added some hooks for third-party customization 1.4 Added ability to reset count for hit stats, small ui improvements 1.3 Added ability to setup 301/302/307 redirect HTTP codes for each link individually 1.2 Added 'af_link' shortcode and wysiwyg for link embedding 1.1 Added link categories, updated labels 1.0 Initial release