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 />
– Organise larger libraries with link groups, tags, campaign views, and campaign notes<br />
– Schedule start and expiry windows, send inactive traffic to a fallback URL, and rotate between multiple live destinations<br />
– Run automated destination health checks that flag broken offers, merchant-side 404s, and redirecting destinations inside the dashboard<br />
– Track daily click timelines plus source, referrer, and placement attribution so reports show which links and placements perform best<br />
– Manage links through a REST API and WP-CLI commands for create, update, disable, import, and export workflows<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>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search links by name, slug, or destination URL from the main Links tab.</li>
<li>Organise links with one primary group, multi-tag labels, reusable campaign views, and campaign notes.</li>
<li>Schedule links with start/end dates, fallback URLs, and sequential or random destination rotation.</li>
<li>Run hourly health checks against primary, fallback, and rotated destinations, then show dashboard alerts when destinations fail or start redirecting.</li>
<li>Show a global analytics snapshot plus per-link 14-day timelines, top sources, top referrers, and top placements inside the Links tab.</li>
<li>Filter large link libraries by group or tag without leaving the main Links tab.</li>
<li>Use a protected REST API for listing, creating, updating, disabling, importing, and exporting links outside wp-admin.</li>
<li>Use WP-CLI commands for scripted link creation, updates, disable/enable actions, and JSON/CSV import-export workflows.</li>
<li>Paginate and sort large link libraries by Name, Slug, and Clicks.</li>
<li>Duplicate links, reset click counts, bulk delete links, and export selected links to CSV including campaign, schedule, rotation, health, and analytics data.</li>
<li>Copy generated short URLs with one click.</li>
<li>Temporarily disable a link without deleting it.</li>
<li>Choose a per-link rel value: <code>nofollow</code>, <code>sponsored</code>, or <code>nofollow sponsored</code>.</li>
<li>Tune how many links appear per page (10-200).</li>
<li>Get warnings when your chosen prefix may conflict with WordPress core URLs or an existing page slug.</li>
<li>Benefit from atomic click counting and object-cache-friendly slug lookups on busy sites.</li>
<li>Use the plugin safely on multisite installs with multisite-aware activation, deactivation, and uninstall routines.</li>
</ul>
<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>If short URLs do not start working immediately after you change the redirect prefix, re-save Permalinks (Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Permalinks) so WordPress refreshes rewrite rules.</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, schedule window, fallback URL, rotation rules, group, tags, and campaign note).</li>
<li>Copy the generated short URL and use it anywhere.</li>
<li>Use search, campaign views, analytics snapshots, group/tag filters, health alerts, sorting, pagination, or CSV export as your link library grows.</li>
</ol>
<p>Automation tip: use the REST API or WP-CLI when you want to manage affiliate links in deployment scripts, migrations, or headless workflows.</p>
<h3>Developers</h3>
<p>Text domain:<br />
kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager</p>
<p>Custom post type:<br />
– <code>kitgenix_aff_link</code></p>
<p>Taxonomies:<br />
– Link groups: <code>kitgenix_aff_group</code><br />
– Link tags: <code>kitgenix_aff_tag</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)<br />
– Campaign note: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_campaign_note</code><br />
– Starts at: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_starts_at</code> (UTC timestamp)<br />
– Expires at: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_expires_at</code> (UTC timestamp)<br />
– Fallback URL: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_fallback_url</code><br />
– Rotation mode: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_rotation_mode</code> (<code>none</code>, <code>sequential</code>, <code>random</code>)<br />
– Rotation destinations: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_rotation_destinations</code> (stored as an array)<br />
– Health status: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_health_status</code><br />
– Health message: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_health_message</code><br />
– Health checked at: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_health_checked_at</code> (UTC timestamp)<br />
– Health HTTP code: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_health_http_code</code><br />
– Health final URL: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_health_final_url</code><br />
– Health redirect hops: <code>_kitgenix_affiliate_health_redirect_hops</code></p>
<p>Analytics table:<br />
– <code>{prefix}kitgenix_aff_click_stats</code> — stores daily aggregated click counts by link, source, placement, and referrer host.</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).<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_destination_url</code> (string $destination_url, int $post_id) — filter the final redirect destination before redirecting.<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_redirect_status</code> (int $status, int $post_id) — filter the HTTP redirect status per request.<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_manage_capability</code> (string $capability) — override the capability required to manage links.<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_health_check_timeout</code> (int $timeout, string $url) — adjust the outbound timeout used by destination health checks.</p>
<p>REST API:<br />
– Namespace: <code>kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1</code><br />
– <code>GET /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links</code> — list links with optional <code>search</code>, <code>group</code>, <code>tag</code>, <code>enabled</code>, <code>orderby</code>, <code>order</code>, <code>page</code>, and <code>per_page</code> parameters.<br />
– <code>POST /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links</code> — create a link, including optional <code>starts_at</code>, <code>expires_at</code>, <code>fallback_url</code>, <code>rotation_mode</code>, and <code>rotation_destinations</code> fields.<br />
– <code>GET /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/{id}</code> — fetch one link.<br />
– <code>PUT|PATCH /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/{id}</code> — update a link, including schedule and rotation settings.<br />
– <code>DELETE /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/{id}</code> — move a link to the Trash.<br />
– <code>POST /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/{id}/disable</code> — disable a link.<br />
– <code>POST /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/{id}/enable</code> — re-enable a link.<br />
– <code>GET /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/export</code> — export filtered links as structured rows.<br />
– <code>POST /wp-json/kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager/v1/links/import</code> — import links with <code>match_existing=slug|id|none</code> and a <code>links</code> array payload.<br />
– Link responses and exports now include health fields such as <code>health_status</code>, <code>health_message</code>, <code>health_checked_at</code>, <code>health_http_code</code>, and <code>health_redirect_hops</code>.<br />
– Link responses and exports now also include analytics fields such as <code>clicks_last_7_days</code>, <code>clicks_last_30_days</code>, <code>timeline_14_days</code>, <code>top_sources_30_days</code>, <code>top_referrers_30_days</code>, and <code>top_placements_30_days</code>.</p>
<p>WP-CLI:<br />
– Base command: <code>wp kitgenix-affiliate link</code><br />
– Subcommands: <code>get</code>, <code>create</code>, <code>update</code>, <code>disable</code>, <code>enable</code>, <code>delete</code>, <code>export</code>, <code>import</code><br />
– <code>create</code> / <code>update</code> accept <code>--starts-at</code>, <code>--expires-at</code>, <code>--fallback-url</code>, <code>--rotation-mode</code>, and <code>--rotation-destinations</code>.<br />
– <code>export</code> supports JSON or CSV output.<br />
– <code>import</code> supports JSON or CSV input and can match existing links by slug or ID.<br />
– <code>get</code> and <code>export</code> output the stored destination health summary fields alongside the rest of the link record.<br />
– <code>get</code> and <code>export</code> also output analytics summary fields, including recent timelines and top attribution breakdowns.</p>
<p>Scheduled events:<br />
– Hourly health-check event: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_run_health_checks</code><br />
– Initial catch-up event: <code>kitgenix_affiliate_run_health_checks_once</code></p>
<p>Developer actions:<br />
– <code>kitgenix_affiliate_redirected</code> (int $post_id, string $destination_url, int $status) — fires after the click is counted and before the redirect exits.</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><br />
– Transient: <code>kitgenix_hub_wporg_media_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://buymeacoffee.com/kitgenix</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.

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<p>PublishPress Shortlinks is the best link manager available for WordPress. With PublishPress Shortlinks, you can take any link on your website and perform useful actions like these:</p>
<ul>
<li>Track who clicks on your links with detailed analytics.</li>
<li>Safely hare posts in any status, even unpublished posts in Draft or Pending Review.</li>
<li>Make your URLs short and memorable.</li>
<li>Control who can visit your links with passwords, expiry dates, and access control.</li>
<li>Generate QR codes to easily share your links.</li>
</ul>
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<blockquote>
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<h3>Key Link Management Features in PublishPress Shortlinks</h3>
<p>✅ Automatically create shortlinks for your posts<br />
✅ Use your own website domain for shortlinks<br />
✅ Customize the slug for each shortlink<br />
✅ Share shortlinks for posts in any status<br />
✅ Add password protection to your shortlinks<br />
✅ Automatically expire your shortlinks on a specific date<br />
✅ Choose from 301, 302, and 307 redirects<br />
✅ Track who is clicking your shortlinks with analytics<br />
✅ Generate a QR code for each shortlink to allow easy sharing<br />
✅ Automatically add link to keywords<br />
✅ Cloak your affiliate links</p>
<h3>Automatically create shortlinks for your posts</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks will automatically generate links for all your posts and pages. This makes it really easy to have shareable links for content. These URLs are available from the Posts screen and the Post Edit screen.</p>
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<h3>Use your own website domain for shortlinks</h3>
<p>There’s no need to use an external service to build and track your links. With PublishPress Shortlinks, all your custom URLs use your own domain name. To avoid conflicts with any regular URLs on your site, there’s also a folder which is set to “go” by default. This means that your custom URLs will look like this: https://example.com/go/shortlinks. Every post has its own URL. By default, the final part of the URL will be a unique combination of 5 characters, so your shortlink will look like this: https://example.com/go/8vi3n. However, you can customize the slug so it looks like this: https://example.com/go/shortlinks.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/how-to-customize-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on customizing shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Share shortlinks for posts in any status</h3>
<p>When you’re writing a draft post, do you sometimes need to share it with someone who doesn’t have access to your site? PublishPress Shortlinks is the answer. PublishPress Shortlinks allows you to share posts before you make them public. If you’ve written a draft of a post, you can share a preview with other people. You can protect these links by combining this with other features, including password protection and automatic expiry of links. This feature is similar to the Public Post Preview plugin, but with more features and customizable features.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/posts-status-visibility/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on shortlinks for unpublished posts</a>.</p>
<h3>Add password protection to your shortlinks</h3>
<p>Edit a shortlink and go to the “Security” tab. You’ll be able to create a password for your sharable links. Nobody will be able to access the post via your shortlink unless they know the password.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/protect-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on passwords for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Automatically expire your shortlinks on a specific date</h3>
<p>Edit a shortlink and go to the “Security” tab. You’ll be able to choose an expiration date for your shortlink. Anyone trying to visit your link after the expiration date will see the message, “This link is expired.”</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/protect-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on expiry dates for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Choose from 301, 302, and 307 redirects</h3>
<p>Edit a shortlink and go to the “Redirection” tab. You can choose what kind of redirect is used for each link. 301 (Permanent) redirects are used to tell search engines that a requested URL has been permanently moved to another URL. If you’re confident that your target URL will never change, then use this redirect type. 302 and 307 (Temporary) redirects tell search engines that the requested URL has been moved temporarily, but will be back eventually.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/redirect-options-for-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on redirects for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Track who is clicking your shortlinks with analytics</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks has a Logs feature that records everyone who clicks your links. These logs are then turned into analytics charts so you can see how popular each shortlink is.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/analytics-and-logs-for-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on logs for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Generate a QR code for each shortlink to allow easy sharing</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks will automatically create a QR code for each link. This makes it easy to download and share the QR code so people can visit your URL. This is great for advertisements, brochures, PDFs, restaurant menus, or anywhere you want to use a QR code.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/qr-codes-for-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on QR codes for shortlinks</a></p>
<h3>Automatically add links to keywords</h3>
<p>You can automatically add links to keywords in your post. For example, every time “WordPress” appears in your posts, you can link it to WordPress.org.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/automatically-add-links-to-keywords/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on adding links to keywords</a></p>
<h3>Cloak affiliate links</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks is ideal for websites that have affiliate links in posts. You can manage, clean up, brand, and track your links. It’s a great tool for cloaking affiliate links. PublishPress Shortlinks is a great tool for marketers plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links.</p>
<h3>Create Shortlinks via Keyboard Shortcuts</h3>
<p>Click <code>Ctrl/Cmd + /</code> anywhere in the WordPress admin area to instantly create shortlinks.</p>
<h3>Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins</h3>
<p>The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. <a href="https://publishpress.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to join PublishPress</a>.</p>
<p>Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these Pro plugins:</p>
<ul>
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<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/future" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Future Pro</a>  is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.</li>
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</ul>
<p>Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more, then you should try PublishPress.</p>
<h3>Bug Reports</h3>
<p>Bug reports for PublishPress Shortlinks are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-shortlinks" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.</p>


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