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Nathan Rice

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Clifford Paulick

Matt Ryan

<p>Simple URLs Legacy is a fork of the plugin by Nathan Rice. A URL management system to create, manage, and track outbound links from your site.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Simple URLs Legacy adds a new custom post type to your admin menu, where you can create, edit, delete, and manage URLs. It stores click counts in the form of a custom field on that custom post type, so it scales really well.</p>
<p>And, by avoiding page based redirects, which is the current trend in masking affiliate links, we avoid any issues with permalink conflicts, and therefore avoid any performance issues.</p>
<ol>
<li>Upload the entire <code>simple-urls-legacy</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>DO NOT change the name of the <code>simple-urls-legacy</code> folder</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Navigate to <code>Settings > Permalinks</code>. That’s it. Just open that screen and WordPRess automatically flushes redirects. Trust me.</li>
<li>Navigate to the <code>Simple URLs Legacy</code> menu</li>
<li>Create a new URL, or manage existing URLs.</li>
<li>Publish and use the URLs however you want!</li>
</ol>
<h3></h3>
<p>= 1.0.4  =<br />
* 05/27/2025<br />
* Add capability to reset click counter on any simple url.<br />
* ‘Reset Clicks’ to 0 from link edit screen or using Quick Edit hover navigation.<br />
*</p>
<h4>1.0.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>12/16/2024</li>
<li>Updated Tested To vesion for WP 6.7.1</li>
<li>Applied wp_unslash correctly to url sanitization.</li>
<li>Corrected text domain setting in admin class.</li>
<li>Aligned license declaration between readme and plugin header.</li>
<li>Added license comment block.</li>
<li>Addressed issues with lengthy short description in header.</li>
<li>Added original contributors back into readme header.</li>
<li>Adjust loading of constants and get_plugion_data to accomodate WP 6.7 changes in text_domain loading.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>11/13/2023</li>
<li>Updated Tested To version for WP 6.4.1</li>
<li>Added logic to pull plugin version from main file header</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>03/31/2023 #5FTF #WebDevStudios</li>
<li>Updated Tested To vesion for WP 6.2</li>
<li>Clean up documentation</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>12/30/22 #5FTF #WebDevStudios</li>
<li>Initial release of Simple Urls Legacy</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.10.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>11/25/2022 #5FTF #WebDevStudios</li>
<li>Add Published date to Simple URLs Legacy admin page</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.10.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>11/25/2022 #5FTF #WebDevStudios</li>
<li>Applied WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Tweaked plugin description.</li>
<li>Added required license declarations in readme.txt</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.10.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>10/28/2022 #5FTF #WebDevStudios</li>
<li>Added conflict notice in admin if Simple URLs plugin is running.</li>
<li>Reworked constants for better readability.</li>
<li>Added build/dependency source files back in with updated dependencies.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.10.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>08/09/2022</li>
<li>Reverted plugin to last known state under original author – Nathan Rice (v0.9.9).</li>
<li>Renamed plugin from Simple URLs to Simple URLs Legacy.</li>
<li>URL structure modifier filter changed from ‘simple_urls_slug’ to ‘simple_urls_legacy_slug’.</li>
<li>Reworked naming conventions to use simple-urls-legacy namespace and package name.</li>
<li>Removed build/dependency source files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.9</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed URLs not properly redirecting.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.8</h4>
<ul>
<li>Coding standards.</li>
<li>Added composer.</li>
<li>Added Circle CI integration.</li>
<li>Added new filter to change the slug.</li>
<li>Added REST support to ensure Simple URLs appear in list when linking text.</li>
<li>Added cast string to int to avoid type error.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.7</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress compatibility.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.6</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add plugin header i18n</li>
<li>Add textdomain loader</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Changed messages and labels.</li>
<li>Updated textdomain.</li>
<li>Generated POT file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed saving bug</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>Removed capability line from the register function. Users with permission to edit posts can create/edit URLs.</li>
<li>Bumped to show compatibility with WordPress 3.0.4</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a type in the plugin URL</li>
<li>Bumped to show compatibility with WordPress 3.0.2</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug with URLs with ampersands in them</li>
<li>Added <code>'with_front' => false</code> to the post type registration</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.9</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial Beta Release</li>
</ul>


Simple URLs Legacy

Simple URLs Legacy is a fork of the plugin by Nathan Rice. A URL management system to create, manage, and track outbound links from your site.

DanFoster

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<h4>Tracking clicks</h4>
<p>Track The Click helps website owners better understand how site visitors interact with links on their site.  The main function of the plugin is to track clicks as they occur on a WordPress website in real time.  Track The Click uses client side Javascript to record all outbound click events and record them to a local database.  Once the data is recorded, Track The Click offers a number of views, to interpret and analyze the click behavior.</p>
<h4>Why track outbound clicks?</h4>
<p><strong>Improve affiliate link performance</strong></p>
<p>By tracking and recording where and how your visitors click and leave your site, you can optimize your website and pages for increased affiliate revenue.</p>
<p><strong>Demonstrate advertising value</strong></p>
<p>If you have website sponsors or advertisers, the external click data can be invaluable.  Your clients might not be sophisticated enough to check their own website analytics, so you can provide them with the data yourself; how well did the ad perform, how many users left your sites for theirs through the ad in question?  From that they can develop a Return On Investment number for the cost of your campaign.</p>
<p><strong>See where your site visitors go next</strong></p>
<p>If the bulk of your visitors are leaving your website for a specific destination, maybe there’s room for extra content on your own site.  Why send your traffic elsewhere if you can meet your visitors’ needs yourself?</p>
<p><strong>See which pages are driving external traffic</strong></p>
<p>Using the Track The Click plugin you can review which of your website’s posts and pages are sending the most external traffic. These may be potential sources of new affiliate revenue.</p>
<h4>Why Track The Click?</h4>
<p><strong>Simple. Easy. Quick.</strong></p>
<p>Once you install the plugin you can begin tracking clicks within 60 seconds.  You don’t need to subscribe to our site, our newsletter, or any other signup form.  Download, install, start.</p>
<p><strong>Made by bloggers for bloggers</strong></p>
<p>We made the plugin because we were also frustrated by the lack of ways of track clicks on our sites.  Track The Click is the result of that frustration.</p>
<p><strong>Free and lightweight</strong></p>
<p>The basics of the plugin are 100% free.  The plugin is also made with site speed first and foremost in mind. We won’t add 1000s of lines of bloated code to your website.</p>
<p><strong>Data insights</strong></p>
<p>We’re constantly working to show you as much data around your link click as possible.  What time of the day was the click?  What page did the click leave on, what was the anchor of that click?  We’re always looking to add more and more data.</p>
<h4>Core features</h4>
<p>The basic functions of the plugin are free, these include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited link click tracking</li>
<li>Local tracking and reporting of clicks</li>
<li>No limit on storage of link click data</li>
<li>Track outbound link clicks in all areas of your site: header, body, widgets and footer</li>
<li>Two standard views</li>
</ul>
<p>The free version comes with two views.  Each view represents a different way to see your outbound link profile.  The two free views are the link and domain view as follows.  The standard free view is the link view.  For every outbound click on your WordPress website this shows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Link URL</li>
<li>Anchor text of the link clicked</li>
<li>Post or page on your website where the link occurred</li>
<li>Total of link clicks in specified time period</li>
</ul>


Simple URLs Legacy vs Track The Click