Kitgenix Affiliate Link Manager

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:

It’s designed to be lightweight and practical: – Create links with a Name, Slug and Destination URL – Configure the redirect prefix (default: go) – 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.

Notes

• This plugin stores links in a private custom post type and performs redirects via WordPress rewrite rules.
• After changing the redirect prefix, you may need to re-save Permalinks (Settings → Permalinks) to ensure rewrite rules are refreshed.

Quick Start

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Go to Kitgenix → Affiliate Links.
3. Add a link (Name + Destination URL + optional custom slug).
4. Copy the generated short URL and use it anywhere.

Developers

Text domain: kitgenix-affiliate-link-manager

Custom post type: – kitgenix_aff_link

Post meta: – Destination URL: _kitgenix_affiliate_destination_url – Click count: _kitgenix_affiliate_clicks – Rel value: _kitgenix_affiliate_rel (allowed: nofollow, sponsored, nofollow sponsored)

Settings option: – kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings

Settings group (Settings API): – kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_group

Redirect query var: – kitgenix_affiliate_slug

Admin actions / nonces: – Admin-post action (save): admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_save – Admin-post action (delete): admin_post_kitgenix_affiliate_link_delete – Link save nonce action: kitgenix_affiliate_link_save – Link save nonce field name: kitgenix_affiliate_link_nonce – Link delete nonce action: kitgenix_affiliate_link_delete – Link delete nonce query arg: nonce – Settings save nonce action: kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_save – Settings save nonce field name: kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings_nonce

Settings UI field identifiers: – Redirect status id: kitgenix_affiliate_redirect_status

External Services

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 plugins_api() function.

Caching: – Transient: kitgenix_hub_wporg_active_installs_v1 – Transient: kitgenix_hub_wporg_ratings_v1

Redirect destinations: – When a visitor uses a short URL like /go/{slug}, the plugin redirects them to the destination URL you configured for that link. Destination URLs are commonly on third-party domains (affiliate programs).

Security & Privacy

• No tracking cookies are added.
• Admin actions are protected with capability checks and nonces.
• Redirect destinations are validated before redirect.

Uninstall

Uninstall removes only plugin settings and plugin-only transients (but does not delete stored affiliate link posts or click data).

Deleted: – Option: kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_settings – Transient: kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_do_activation_redirect – Transient (short-lived): kitgenix_affiliate_link_manager_do_rewrite_flush

Support Development

If this plugin saves you time managing affiliate URLs, you can support ongoing development here: https://buymeacoffee.com/kitgenix

Credits

Built with ❤︎ by @kitgenix – https://kitgenix.com