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Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple WordPress Plugin to Cloak Affiliate Links

26 June 2010

The Affiliate Link Cloaker is a user-friendly WordPress plugin which allows you to cloak affiliate links. It can also be used to shorten links on your WordPress blog.

Plugin Description

Affiliate Link Cloaker allows you to create a cloaked link for any affiliate URL. After you created a cloaked link you will be able to use that anywhere on your website. Anyone visiting your website will see the cloaked/shortened link. Once the link is clicked the visitor will be redirected to the full URL.

Installation

Via FTP

1. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘affiliate-link-cloaker’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Via WordPress Plugin Uploader

  • On your Dashboard go to “Add New” under “Plugins”.
  • Click “Upload”.
  • Click “Browse”.
  • Select the “affiliate-link-cloaker.zip” file and hit “Install Now”.
  • Once the Installation is completed, click “Activate Plugin”.

Usage

  1. Once you install and activate the plugin, go to “WP Link Cloaker” under “Settings”. (See screenshot here)
  2. Under “general settings” of the plugin there is a field “Cloak Word”. In this field you can enter any text which will be used to create the tiny URL. The default text is “item”. If you change any text of the field click “Update”. (See screenshot here)
  3. Now go to the tab “Add Link”. (see screenshot here)
  4. There is a field called “Target Link” where you need to enter your full affiliate URL or any link that you want to shorten. Enter the URL and click “Save”. (see screenshot here)
  5. Go to the tab called “Manage Links”. (See screenshot here)
  6. You will see that a “Cloaked/Shortened URL” has been created for the URL you just provided. Now use this “Cloaked version of the URL” anywhere on your blog. (see screenshot here)

Plugin Demo

This link has been configured to work as a cloaked link. The actual target link is the following:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-estore-plugin-complete-solution-to-sell-digital-products-from-your-wordpress-blog-securely-1059?ap_id=naa986

Click here to see how it works.

Download

Download the Affiliate Link Cloaker plugin from here

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestion.

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8 Comments »

  • asif said:

    Is this a free plugin?

    # 29 June 2010 at 7:38 am
  • admin (author) said:

    yes, it’s a free plugin.

    # 29 June 2010 at 4:06 pm
  • Michael said:

    Hi, Thanks for the link cloaker plugin. It’s really handy.

    # 22 July 2010 at 8:04 am
  • Sophia said:

    Great plugin. I’ve been looking for a link cloaker plugin like this.

    Thanks

    # 23 July 2010 at 12:16 pm
  • Prince said:

    Thanks for this plugin. I was searching for a wordpress link cloaker plugin on google and your site was diplayed on page 1,

    However, I have an issue with it. I have installed it and it looked like what I realy want but after I paste the cloaked version of my aff link on my post, the link is not clickable. It looks static like normal text on my post. What do you think is the problem?

    Pls help.

    # 11 August 2010 at 6:18 pm
  • admin (author) said:

    Can you please post a link to the page where you are using the cloaked version of the affiliate link?

    “link is not clickable and looks static like normal text” – Actually Affiliate Link Cloaker has got nothing to do with creating a link on your website. Even if you create a link on your website without the plugin installed it should be clickable, no matter if the URL is correct or wrong. The problem can be if you click on the cloaked link and it doesn’t redirect to the target URL because that’s what this plugin do. So I think something else could be wrong.

    Cheers

    # 11 August 2010 at 6:40 pm
  • Jenny How said:

    i cut n paste the cloak link to my browser and the it’s like a redirecting.

    it now display my real url in the browser.

    but this is not how it should work right?

    # 17 August 2010 at 9:14 am
  • admin (author) said:

    Affiliate Link Cloaker is just like any other link cloaker or tiny URL maker plugin. It only allows you to cloak any link on your website so that your visitors can’t see the actual affiliate link when they hover the mouse on that link. But once they click on it and go to the actual URL it won’t be cloaked anymore.

    # 17 August 2010 at 12:46 pm

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