Kitgenix

<p>Affiliate URLs can get long, messy, and hard to manage — especially once they’re embedded across pages, posts, emails, and ads.</p>
<p><strong>Kitgenix Affiliate Link Manager</strong> gives you a simple, central place to create and manage short affiliate links, and redirect visitors using a clean URL format:</p>
<pre><code>/go/{slug} (prefix configurable)
</code></pre>
<p>It’s designed to be lightweight and practical:<br />
– Create links with a Name, Slug and Destination URL<br />
– Configure the redirect prefix (default: <code>go</code>)<br />
– Choose redirect status: 307, 302 or 301<br />
– Track click counts per link<br />
– No third-party redirect/short-link service (redirects happen on your site)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<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 <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> 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 <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> 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>
<p>Text domain:<br />
kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager</p>
<p>Custom post type:<br />
– <code>kitgenix_aff_link</code></p>
<p>Post meta:<br />
– Destination URL: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_destination_url</code><br />
– Click count: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_clicks</code><br />
– Rel value: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_rel</code> (allowed: <code>nofollow</code>, <code>sponsored</code>, <code>nofollow sponsored</code>)<br />
– Enabled flag: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_enabled</code> (1/0; defaults to enabled)</p>
<p>Settings option:<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings</code></p>
<p>Settings group (Settings API):<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_group</code></p>
<p>Redirect query var:<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_slug</code></p>
<p>Admin actions / nonces:<br />
– Admin-post action (save): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_save</code><br />
– Admin-post action (delete): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_delete</code><br />
– Admin-post action (duplicate): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_duplicate</code><br />
– Admin-post action (reset clicks): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_reset_clicks</code><br />
– Admin-post action (bulk actions): <code>admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_bulk</code><br />
– Link save nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_save</code><br />
– Link save nonce field name: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_nonce</code><br />
– Link delete nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_delete</code><br />
– Link delete nonce query arg: <code>nonce</code><br />
– Link duplicate nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_duplicate</code><br />
– Link reset clicks nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_reset_clicks</code><br />
– Bulk actions nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_bulk</code><br />
– Bulk actions nonce field name: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_bulk_nonce</code><br />
– Settings save nonce action: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_save</code><br />
– Settings save nonce field name: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_nonce</code></p>
<p>Settings UI field identifiers:<br />
– Redirect status  id: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_redirect_status</code><br />
– Links per page  id: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_links_per_page</code></p>
<p>Developer filters:<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_slug_cache_ttl</code> (int $ttl, int $post_id, string $slug) — adjust redirect slug lookup cache TTL (seconds).</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Caching:<br />
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_hub_wporg_active_installs_v1</code><br />
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_hub_wporg_ratings_v1</code></p>
<p>Redirect destinations:<br />
– 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).</p>
<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>
<p>By default, uninstall removes only plugin settings and plugin-only transients (it does not delete stored affiliate link posts or click data).</p>
<p>Optional: enable the “Delete all affiliate links and click data when the plugin is uninstalled” setting if you want a clean uninstall.</p>
<p>Deleted:<br />
– Option: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings</code><br />
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_do_activation_redirect</code><br />
– Transient (short-lived): <code>kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_do_rewrite_flush</code></p>
<h3>Support Development</h3>
<p>If this plugin saves you time managing affiliate URLs, you can support ongoing development here:<br />
https://donate.stripe.com/9B65kDgG3fTQ2Kzcmwf7i00</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Built with ❤︎ by @kitgenix – https://kitgenix.com</p>


Kitgenix Affiliate Link Manager

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

ArielK

pojo.me

Yakir Sitbon

Elementor

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<p>Through Linker’s short url tool you can know on which links your visitors are clicking. Linker is the easiest tool to use in order to create a short link in your own domain & track outbound link clicks from your website, using software like Google Analytics.<br />
Create short links to your post, manage your 301 redirects, track affiliate links and do many other URL related tasks easily.</p>
<h3>Major Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create Short and clean URLs, using your own domain</li>
<li>Redirect links to any location, both inbound and outbound, using 301 redirects</li>
<li>Track outbound link clicks, with internal reporting for Hits per link</li>
<li>Enjoy an intuitive and User Friendly Admin Interface</li>
<li>Setup tracking easily using Linker’s out of the box functionality</li>
<li>Set URL Parameters forwarding for improved tracking on every redirection</li>
</ul>
<h3>How it Works?</h3>
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<p><strong>Link Example</strong>: Just to make it extra clear, here’s how the Linker plugin works.</p>
<ul>
<li>Original URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/linker/</li>
<li>New URL with Linker: https://pojo.me/go/linker/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributions:</h3>
<p>Would you like to contribute to this plugin? You’re more than welcome to submit your pull requests on the <a href="https://github.com/pojome/wp-linker" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a>. And, if you have any notes about the code, please open a ticket on the issue tracker.</p>


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