Kitgenix

Affiliate URLs can get long, messy, and hard to manage — especially once they’re embedded across pages, posts, emails, and ads.
Kitgenix Affiliate Link Manager gives you a simple, central place to create and manage short affiliate links, and redirect visitors using a clean URL format:
<pre><code>/go/{slug} (prefix configurable)
</code></pre>
It’s designed to be lightweight and practical: 
– Create links with a Name, Slug and Destination URL 
– Configure the redirect prefix (default: <code>go</code>) 
– Choose redirect status: 307, 302 or 301 
– Track click counts per link 
– No third-party redirect/short-link service (redirects happen on your site)
SEO note: you can choose a per-link rel value (nofollow / sponsored / both). When placing your short URL into content, use sponsored/nofollow to follow search engine guidelines for affiliate links.
<h4>Notes</h4>
<ul>
<li>This plugin stores links in a private custom post type and performs redirects via WordPress rewrite rules.</li>
<li>After changing the redirect prefix, you may need to re-save Permalinks (Settings → Permalinks) to ensure rewrite rules are refreshed.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Quick Start</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Go to Kitgenix → Affiliate Links.</li>
<li>Add a link (Name + Destination URL + optional custom slug).</li>
<li>Copy the generated short URL and use it anywhere.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Developers</h3>
Text domain: 
kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager
Custom post type: 
– <code>kitgenix_aff_link</code>
Post meta: 
– Destination URL: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_destination_url</code> 
– Click count: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_clicks</code> 
– Rel value: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_rel</code> (allowed: <code>nofollow</code>, <code>sponsored</code>, <code>nofollow sponsored</code>) 
– Enabled flag: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_enabled</code> (1/0; defaults to enabled)
Settings option: 
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings</code>
Settings group (Settings API): 
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_group</code>
Redirect query var: 
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_slug</code>
Admin actions / nonces: 
– Admin-post action (save): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_save</code> 
– Admin-post action (delete): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_delete</code> 
– Admin-post action (duplicate): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_duplicate</code> 
– Admin-post action (reset clicks): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_reset_clicks</code> 
– Admin-post action (bulk actions): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_bulk</code> 
– Link save nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_save</code> 
– Link save nonce field name: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_nonce</code> 
– Link delete nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_delete</code> 
– Link delete nonce query arg: <code>nonce</code> 
– Link duplicate nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_duplicate</code> 
– Link reset clicks nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_reset_clicks</code> 
– Bulk actions nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_bulk</code> 
– Bulk actions nonce field name: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_bulk_nonce</code> 
– Settings save nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_save</code> 
– Settings save nonce field name: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_nonce</code>
Settings UI field identifiers: 
– Redirect status id: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_redirect_status</code> 
– Links per page id: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_links_per_page</code>
Developer filters: 
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_slug_cache_ttl</code> (int $ttl, int $post_id, string $slug) — adjust redirect slug lookup cache TTL (seconds).
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin includes a shared “Kitgenix hub” component in wp-admin which may fetch publicly available plugin metadata from WordPress.org using WordPress core’s <code>plugins_api()</code> function.
Caching: 
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_hub_wporg_active_installs_v1</code> 
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_hub_wporg_ratings_v1</code>
Redirect destinations: 
– When a visitor uses a short URL like <code>/go/{slug}</code>, the plugin redirects them to the destination URL you configured for that link. Destination URLs are commonly on third-party domains (affiliate programs).
<h3>Security & Privacy</h3>
<ul>
<li>No tracking cookies are added.</li>
<li>Admin actions are protected with capability checks and nonces.</li>
<li>Redirect destinations are validated before redirect.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Uninstall</h3>
By default, uninstall removes only plugin settings and plugin-only transients (it does not delete stored affiliate link posts or click data).
Optional: enable the “Delete all affiliate links and click data when the plugin is uninstalled” setting if you want a clean uninstall.
Deleted: 
– Option: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings</code> 
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_do_activation_redirect</code> 
– Transient (short-lived): <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_do_rewrite_flush</code>
<h3>Support Development</h3>
If this plugin saves you time managing affiliate URLs, you can support ongoing development here: 
https://donate.stripe.com/9B65kDgG3fTQ2Kzcmwf7i00
<h3>Credits</h3>
Built with ❤︎ by @kitgenix – https://kitgenix.com

Kitgenix Affiliate Link Manager

Manage affiliate short links, branded redirects, and click tracking from one WordPress dashboard.

The default WordPress “shortlink” URLs look like this: <code>http://www.example.com/blog/?p=123</code>, where “<code>123</code>” is actually a 7+ digit decimal number. This plugin shrinks your shortlinks by encoding that number into only 4 characters, and using the abbreviated URL prefix of your choice.
On my site, the default shortlinks are 35 bytes long, even though I have a very short domain name. This plugin shrinks them to 21 total bytes, which is comparable to most public URL-shortener services, and better than many.
E.g., this: <code>http://www.jwz.org/blog/?p=13240780</code> 
becomes: <code>http://jwz.org/b/ygnM</code>
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