Title: ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin
Author: Blair Williams
Published: <strong>July 15, 2013</strong>
Last modified: January 20, 2026

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# ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin

 By [Blair Williams](https://profiles.wordpress.org/supercleanse/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/thirstyaffiliates.3.11.10.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/thirstyaffiliates/)

## Description

🔗 Affiliate link management & cloaker tool. Easily manage, shrink and track your
affiliate links in WordPress. 🔥

### VISIT OUR WEBSITE 🖥️

Click here: [ThirstyAffiliates](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/?utm_source=WordPressorg&utm_medium=Free%20Plugin%20Listing&utm_content=Home)

Check out the [PRO Version](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/pricing/?utm_source=WordPressorg&utm_medium=Free%20Plugin%20Listing&utm_content=PRO)!

### THIRSTYAFFILIATES 💥

**_ThirstyAffiliates_** gives bloggers the tools they need to monetize their WordPress
website with affiliate marketing.

We’ve made managing your affiliate links as simple as it should be:

 1. Install & activate the ThirstyAffiliates plugin
 2. Go to Affiliate Links -> Add New
 3. Enter the destination URL (your affiliate link) and a title
 4. The plugin creates a new shortlink/link redirect to your long ugly affiliate link
    by making a pretty link with your own website URL
 5. You can then use the new “TA” button in your editor to add your affiliate link 
    to your content easily

eg. http://example.com/recommends/some-product

### Features ✔️

**💡 SIMPLE**
 No complex setups. It’s just another post type in your admin and 
another button on your Visual editor.

When you are writing blog posts, you can highlight a word and click the “TA” button.
This works just like the built-in link tool, you can search for the affiliate link
you created earlier by name.

You can even use the Quick Add button to add affiliate links to ThirstyAffiliates
on the fly while you are writing.

**🔗 BUILT-IN AFFILIATE LINK SHORTNER/LINK CLOAKER**
 Create pretty links from the
affiliate links you’ve placed on the site. ThirstyAffiliates will use a /recommends/
prefix by default for your pretty links, but this can be easily changed to match
your preferences.

**💰 SEAMLESS STRIPE SALES***
 Create a branded, one-click path to payment with 
NEW ThirstyPay™ Links. Share your link and start selling anywhere – instantly.

**⚙️ BETTER LINK MANAGEMENT**
 You can group your affiliate links into hierarchical
categories. eg. placing all Amazon links within an “Amazon” category, or all software
links in a “Software” category.

Managing your links in ThirstyAffiliates means there is only one place to change
the destination URL if required rather than having to go back and replace the link
in potentially hundreds of articles.

**🔃 SAFE REDIRECTS & SMART UNCLOAKING**
 You can choose from 301 (default), 302,
or 307 redirects, all of which are safe link redirects.

Link redirects protect your affiliate links from being scraped and replaced by malware
in your visitor’s browser.

There is also a smart uncloaking feature so if the affiliate program you are using(
such as Amazon Associates) does not like your links behind a redirect, you can still
use ThirstyAffiliates. Your links can be conditionally uncloaked on the front end.

**🛡️ NO LINK CLASHES OR DATABASE BLOAT**
 Uses proper custom post types to avoid
link clashes that can occur with other solutions.

Keeps its database footprint small to ensure you don’t over bloat your database 
with useless information.

**🖼️ ADD IMAGES TO AFFILIATE LINKS**
 You can even add images and banners to your
affiliate links and recall them for easy insertion when writing your content.

Simply click the new “TA” affiliate link button on your editor, click the cog to
open the Advanced Link Picker, and search & choose the image you want to insert 
and it will be inserted pre-wrapped in your affiliate link.

**📊 CLICK STATISTICS & REPORTS**
 Adds click tracking to your links to track every
click.

Comes with built-in reports so you can explore, over time, how much your affiliate
links have been clicked and what is popular on your site.

… and so much more! Visit [our site](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/) to learn more
about what ThirstyAffiliates can do for you.

* Pro users benefit from no added payment processing fees, while a small 3% fee 
is added per-transaction for free users.

### THIRSTYAFFILIATES PRO 💪

We have a PRO add-on for ThirstyAffiliates that bolts on extra functionality that
might be interesting to advanced affiliate marketers and bloggers looking to automate
parts of their affiliate marketing.

Some of our popular PRO features include:

 * **Product Displays (NEW)**
    Create beautifully styled and responsive displays
   for your affiliate links to drive more clicks and interest with ease.
 * **Automatic Keyword Linking**
    Boost your affiliate income by automatically linking
   affiliate links to keywords throughout your site, great for monetizing your back
   catalog of content!
 * **Advanced Statistics Reports**
    Amazing advanced reports such as performance
   by category, performance over 24/hr periods (to identify peak click times), Geolocation
   reports (where people click from), and more!
 * **Geolocations**
    Geo-target your visitors based on their country of origin and
   redirect them to geographically appropriate affiliate URLs
 * **Google Click Events**
    Pushes a click event to your Google Analytics on click
 * **CSV Import/Export**
    Import and export affiliate links via CSV. Great for managing
   links across multiple sites
 * **Amazon API Importing**
    Search and import affiliate links from Amazon’s Product
   Advertising API
 * **High-speed HTAccess redirect**
    Loads affiliate link redirects into your htaccess
   file for faster redirecting, meaning WordPress & even PHP isn’t loaded
 * **Link Event Notification Emails**
    Get notified about significant events with
   your affiliate links like when they reach a certain amount of clicks total or
   a certain amount of clicks in a period of time
 * **Automatic Link Health Checker**
    Automatically explores your affiliate links
   for 404’s or broken links and will notify you when it detects problems

[Check out all the ThirstyAffiliates PRO features here](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/pricing/?utm_source=WordPressorg&utm_medium=Free%20Plugin%20Listing&utm_content=PRO)

### INTEGRATIONS ⚡

 * [Google Analytics](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/knowledgebase/how-to-set-up-google-click-tracking-analytics)–
   ThirstyAffiliates has a tight integration with Google Analytics to easily push
   click events when an affiliate link is clicked.
 * [Amazon](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/knowledgebase/retrieve-amazon-product-advertising-api-access-key-secret-key)–
   Integrates with Amazon’s Product Advertising API to allow you to search and import
   affiliate links within Amazon.

### What’s Next 🤩

Enjoying your time with ThirstyAffiliates? Consider checking out some of our other
projects:

 * [MemberPress](https://memberpress.com/) – Full-featured Membership solution for
   WordPress. Control who has access to your site and sell content securely through
   payment gateways such as Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.net
 * [EasyAffiliate](https://easyaffiliate.com/) – Complete Affiliate Program management
   plugin for WordPress. Start an Affiliate Program to dramatically increase traffic,
   attention, and sales.
 * [Pretty Links](https://prettylinks.com/) – Advanced link cloaking and redirection
   plugin for WordPress used to shrink, track, cloak, and share links.
 * [Buy Now Plus](https://buynowplus.com/) – Easily start accepting Credit Card 
   payments through a simple buy now button on your website or social media accounts
   using the Stripe gateway.
 * [Members](https://members-plugin.com/) – Roles and capabilities management plugin
   for your WordPress site. This is an excellent plugin to use alongside a Membership
   solution such as MemberPress.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Adding an Affiliate Link
 * [[
 * Affiliate Link Listing
 * [[
 * Settings Page
 * [[
 * Category Page
 * [[
 * Reports Page

## Installation

 1. Upload the `thirstyaffiliates/` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
 3. Visit the new “ThirstyAffiliates” menu and click ‘Add New’ to add an affiliate 
    link.
 4. Use the new “TA” button on the Visual editor to link up an affiliate link when 
    writing content.
 5. Visit [http://thirstyaffiliates.com/](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/?utm_source=WordPressorg&utm_medium=Free%20Plugin%20Listing&utm_content=Home)
    for more information, info about the PRO version and support.

## FAQ

Here are some common questions/problems.

For more resources please see our [Knowledge Base](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/knowledge-base/?utm_source=WordPressorg&utm_medium=Free%20Plugin%20Listing&utm_content=KB).

### Who should use ThirstyAffiliates?

ThirstyAffiliates is aimed at bloggers using WordPress, but really all affiliate
marketers of any kind who use WordPress as their CMS can use ThirstyAffiliates to
aid in their affiliate marketing monetization.

### Help, my links aren’t redirecting! It just brings up a 404 error.

This is a common issue usually caused by another plugin or theme not flushing redirect
rules correctly after setting up another custom post type.

To resolve the problem follow these steps:

 1. Deactivate ThirstyAffiliates, don’t worry your links are safely stored in the database.
 2. Reactivate ThirstyAffiliates
 3. Visit the Settings->Permalinks page and click save.
 4. Go back to ThirstyAffiliates->All Affiliate Links and view one of the links, it
    should be redirecting properly.

### Are there any known conflicts?

WordPress supports a very vibrant ecosystem of themes and plugins so from time to
time it’s expected that there will be some minor conflicts with other products.

See our [Knowledge Base](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/knowledge-base/?utm_source=WordPressorg&utm_medium=Free%20Plugin%20Listing&utm_content=KB)
for an up to date list of known conflicts.

### Is ThirstyAffiliates translatable?

Absolutely! ThirstyAffiliates is ready for translation and we also include a number
of common languages in our plugin as contributed by our lovely users.

### Do I need to have coding skills to use ThirstyAffiliates?

Definitely not. We have built ThirstyAffiliates to be 100% within the dashboard 
of your site. Some knowledge of how redirects work might be beneficial, but overall
it is a very simple plugin to configure and use.

### Can I use ThirstyAffiliates to run an affiliate program for my store?

No – ThirstyAffiliates is _not_ for running an affiliate program.

ThirstyAffiliates is for affiliates to manage their affiliate marketing efforts 
from all the programs they belong to.

If you need to run an affiliate program on your store we recommend you check out
[Easy Affiliate](https://easyaffiliate.com/).

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Shop With HamEd](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shop-with-hamed/)󠁿

 [hamed5486](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hamed5486/) February 2, 2026

very good

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### 󠀁[Very Good Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-good-plugin-3041/)󠁿

 [lusi23](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lusi23/) January 10, 2026

I love it.

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### 󠀁[Excellent Affiliate Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-affiliate-plugin-3/)󠁿

 [phillip2532](https://profiles.wordpress.org/phillip2532/) December 17, 2025

This is the easiest and most efficient affiliate plugin I have used.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6188a3971c2f63a0b34bf95ad47fe6f2529e856aee856424314c6fbddb3cb25a?
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### 󠀁[“The Ultimate Affiliate Link Manager for WordPress — A Must-Have Plugin!”](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-ultimate-affiliate-link-manager-for-wordpress-a-must-have-plugin/)󠁿

 [Greg Rice](https://profiles.wordpress.org/evensongpro/) October 30, 2025

“As a content creator and affiliate marketer, I’ve tried a number of plugins, and
ThirstyAffiliates stands out as a game-changer for managing links on WordPress. 
From its intuitive interface—where you simply ‘Add New’ and then use the ‘TA’ button
in the editor—to its robust features like cloaked redirects, link grouping, click
tracking and built-in reports, this plugin makes affiliate link management seamless
and professional. The ability to update a destination URL once and have it ripple
across hundreds of posts is a massive time-saver, and the fact that it stays lean
without database-bloat is excellent. Their support and updates have been reliable,
and the translation-ready, well-documented setup means you don’t need to be a developer
to get up and running. If you run affiliate campaigns on WordPress, I highly recommend
ThirstyAffiliates—five stars!”

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### 󠀁[Thank you](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thank-you-3687/)󠁿

 [MJ Habib](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mjhabib4/) October 30, 2025

ThirstyAffiliates makes managing my affiliate links so much easier — cloaking, organizing,
tracking, and inserting links all in one place. This has saved me countless hours.
Thank you!

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### 󠀁[Great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-16938/)󠁿

 [dancool1975](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dancool1975/) October 11, 2025

I’m enjoying using this software for the short time I’m using it, and there have
been no issues.

 [ Read all 250 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/thirstyaffiliates/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin”
is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Blair Williams ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/supercleanse/)
 *   [ cartpauj ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cartpauj/)

“ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin”
has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/thirstyaffiliates/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/thirstyaffiliates)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/thirstyaffiliates/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/thirstyaffiliates/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/thirstyaffiliates/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/thirstyaffiliates/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 3.11.10

 * Minor security fix

#### 3.11.9

 * Security hardening in Shortcode

#### 3.11.8

 * Fix regression against old versions of the Pro plugin

#### 3.11.7

 * Fix in plugin messaging bug

#### 3.11.6

 * Updated Growth Tools
 * Properly handle media file deletion
 * Extended data not importing for new links
 * Search columns include Slug and Destination URL
 * Add slug column to Links listing table

#### 3.11.5

 * Transform tag to link in block content
 * Add filter hook to Link Fixer link data (ta_link_fixer_link_data)
 * Fix Growth Tools menu display

#### 3.11.4

 * Minor bugfixes

#### 3.11.3

 * New In-plugin Notifications Inbox
 * Fix broken attachments

#### 3.11.2

 * Removed pause option from Customer Portal as Stripe has removed that feature
 * Return if post_type query var is not set
 * Fix Gutenberg Image block not showing on front-end

#### 3.11.1

 * Minor adjustments to the Onboarding Wizard and admin notices

#### 3.11.0

 * Added ThirstyPay™ Links
 * Added Welcome Onboarding Wizard to help new users get started faster
 * Fixed PHP 8.2+ compatibility issues
 * Pro: Added Product Displays add-on

#### 3.10.21

 * Bug Fix: Link inserter not working on WP 6.4.

#### 3.10.20

 * Bug Fix: Scheduling of in-plugin notifications and how empty images are displayed
   within them.
 * Bug Fix: MonsterInsights event tracking with Enhanced JS Redirect.
 * Bug Fix: Autolinker not working correctly with WPML (only affects Pro users).

#### 3.10.19

 * Improvement: Add WPML compatibility for thirstylinks inserted via Gutenberg editor.
 * Bug Fix: Add preventDefault() call back into Enhanced JS Redirect to fix issue
   with links opening in new tabs twice.

#### 3.10.18

 * Improvement: Allow links with query parameters to be matched in Link Scanner.
 * Improvement: Allow default event action to run with Enhanced JS Redirect option
   enabled.

#### 3.10.17

 * Improvement: Separate link inserter into its own toolbar group within the Block
   Editor.
 * Bug Fix: Duplicate day showing in Reports when clocks go back.

#### 3.10.16

 * Improvement: Excluded unnecessary development files from deployment.
 * Bug Fix: Alt text not being added to TA Image block.

#### 3.10.15

 * Improvement: Added helpful footer links.

#### 3.10.14

 * Bug Fix: 500 errors when using Bot Crawler Blocker.

#### 3.10.13

 * Bug Fix: TA Link Inserter jumping to bottom of page on WP 6.1
 * Bug Fix: Warning message being HTML escaped

#### 3.10.12

 * Bug Fix: PHP warning

#### 3.10.11

 * Bug Fix: Security fixes

#### 3.10.10

 * Bug Fix: Security fixes

#### 3.10.9

 * Bug Fix: Security fixes

#### 3.10.8

 * Bug Fix: Security fixes

#### 3.10.7

 * Bug Fix: Fatal error on PHP versions lower than 7.3

#### 3.10.6

 * Bug Fix: Security fixes

#### 3.10.5

 * Bug Fix: Security fixes

#### 3.10.4

 * Bug Fix: Inserting links not working for non-admins
 * Bug Fix: Allow uppercase extensions in external image links
 * Bug Fix: Fatal error in the stats trimmer on PHP8

#### 3.10.3

 * Bug Fix: User-specific language setting having no effect on plugin translations

#### 3.10.2

 * Bug Fix: TA Link buttons missing in the block editor in WP <5.6

#### 3.10.1

 * Bug Fix: Error with the classic editor in Firefox
 * Bug Fix: Duplicate scheduled events queuing up
 * Bug Fix: jQuery Migrate warnings
 * Bug Fix: The inline link editor jumping around the page on WP 5.6
 * Bug Fix: Review notice still showing after leaving review or dismissing

#### 3.10.0

 * Changed: Admin UI tweaks
 * Bug Fix: Remove styles affecting WP core image block
 * Bug Fix: Notice errors when Elementor is installed

#### 3.9.4

 * Bug Fix: Conflict with the SmartCrawl Pro plugin

#### 3.9.3

 * Improvement: Add an action hook before the enhanced JavaScript redirect
 * Bug Fix: Security fix on the link attachment title

#### 3.9.2

 * Feature: Add X-Robots-Tag header to nofollow links
 * Improvement: Add indexes to the plugin database columns
 * Bug Fix: Fatal error activating the plugin on some WP timezones
 * Bug Fix: Reports only showing results for 10 links

#### 3.9.1

 * Bug Fix: Incorrect client IP retrieved from HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header
 * Bug Fix: External images not working in TA Image block

#### 3.9

 * Bug Fix: Gutenberg Input affiliate link as shortcode should show the error to
   admin only
 * Bug Fix: Convert to blocks converts images on posts as ThirstyAffiliates Image
   block
 * Bug Fix: UTC-2 and UTC+11 Timezone produces Fatal Error when activating the plugin
 * Bug Fix: TA button style for block editor changes in WP 5.2.1

#### 3.8

 * Bug Fix: The “convert to blocks” button is not working with Gutenberg

#### 3.7

 * Feature: ThirstyAffiliates “Affiliate Link Images” Gutenburg block
 * Bug Fix: Editor/Author unable to access “Edit Post” when plugin visibility is
   set to enabled & plugin visibility settings are set to same role or higher (roles
   below it will be affected)

#### 3.6

 * Feature: Gutenberg integration with core blocks
 * Bug Fix: Affiliate links with “Open In New Tab” not working correctly in Instgram’s
   in-app browser
 * Bug Fix: Module settings still able to be accessed even if the module was disabled
 * Bug Fix: Import/Export settings page could be accessed by non-administrator Dashboard
   users

#### 3.5

 * Improvement: Gutenberg compatibility: TA Buttons are not showing up anymore on
   Gutenberg classic editor
 * Improvement: Gutenberg compatibility: TA buttons in wp editors present in metaboxes
   are not working properly.

#### 3.4.0

 * Feature: Support remotely hosted images attached to affiliate links
 * Feature: Add Global value for the Redirect type setting in affiliate link editor
 * Feature: Click Tracking: track device used
 * Feature: Allow adding additional CSS classes
 * Feature: Integration with Beaver Builder
 * Feature: Integration with Elementor
 * Feature: Post edit screen: When using Shortcode link insertion method show link
   with a special link formatting clickable to an edit screen
 * Feature: Add category filter in Add Affiliate Link popup
 * Improvement: Add a setting to allow people to turn off the robots.txt blocking
 * Bug Fix: Link Fixer issue with query strings
 * Bug Fix: Error: Cannot read property ‘replace’ of undefined
 * Bug Fix: Query String issue with Enhanced JS redirect

#### 3.3.7

 * Bug Fix: Make htaccess bots blocker script optional for customers. turn off by
   default
 * Bug Fix: noscript element is sent to ta_click_data_redirect AJAX as the keyword

#### 3.3.6

 * Bug Fix: Disable open new tab as a special case with Facebook Messenger browser
   which doesn’t support it

#### 3.3.5

 * Improvement: Show warning on slug edit to inform users about consequences of 
   editing slug in regards to already inserted links
 * Bug Fix: When Statistics module is disabled hide the Enhanced JS Redirect option
 * Bug Fix: Uncaught type error on URL splitting in Link Fixer
 * Bug Fix: Add jQuery to script dependency list for front end TA script

#### 3.3.4

 * Bug Fix: Saved report shows wrong graph lines placement

#### 3.3.3

 * Improvement: Block bots on stats recording process for non-apache servers
 * Improvement: Remove report data query on page first load
 * Improvement: Add settings for blocking bots
 * Improvement: Ability to turn off IP address collection on stats (GDPR compliance)
 * Improvement: Move “Enable Enhanced Javascript Redirect on Frontend” setting to
   Link Appearance tab
 * Improvement: Code improvements
 * Bug Fix: Improve reliability of link scanner
 * Bug Fix: attachment page can be viewed with link prefix
 * Bug Fix: Improve accuracy of link performance report

#### 3.3.2

 * Bug Fix: WP 4.9.6: The post editor won’t show TA buttons and shows a JS error

#### 3.3.1

 * Improvement: Add render function for URL input type on settings
 * Improvement: Remove Save Changes button on Import/Export setting page
 * Bug Fix: Can only click normal links once
 * Bug Fix: Exporting CSV produces PHP notice: Undefined index: link_health_issue
 * Bug Fix: Fix settings html markup wrapper

#### 3.3.0

 * Feature: Introduce Enhanced JS Redirect Feature
 * Bug Fix: Link Fixer: When a link has been inserted with category in url, and 
   it is removed in the backend, link won’t be detected
 * Bug Fix: Link Fixer: make sure the fetched ID via url_to_postid function for 
   a given link is of “thirstylink” post type

#### 3.2.4

 * Bug Fix: Issues with link fixer for sub-directory installs and with WPML translation

#### 3.2.3

 * Bug Fix: Uncloaker module sometimes stripping away query strings
 * Bug Fix: Notice: Undefined variable error

#### 3.2.2

 * Improvement: Allow Force no-cache headers on 301 redirects
 * Improvement: Minor codebase improvements
 * Bug Fix: Affiliate link can redirect even with invalid category slug
 * Bug Fix: Allow valid characters on the slug box pattern match

#### 3.2.1

 * Improvement: Set post type and taxonomy to non-public facing
 * Improvement: Rename the Link Performance report to Link Overview
 * Improvement: Improve codebase
 * Bug Fix: Shortcode issue with WPML
 * Bug Fix: Issue with inserting thirsty affiliate link into an existing image and
   hitting enter key right after
 * Bug Fix: Affiliate link category pages are accessible on the front end

#### 3.2.0

 * Feature: Feature to determine what pages the current affiliate link is added 
   to
 * Feature: Hide currently attached images from the media box to avoid inserting
   duplicate image to a thirsty link
 * Feature: Ability to set some link appearance settings on a per category level
 * Feature: Add ta link picker on Text Editor Widget
 * Feature: Ability to add link categories from the Quick Add form of the TA link
   picker
 * Feature: Polylang Support
 * Feature: WPML Support
 * Improvement: Allow sorting of thirsty links on cpt listing by link category and
   other headers
 * Improvement: Make settings page into a vertical orientation
 * Improvement: Set default redirect type to 302
 * Improvement: Tidy up code
 * Bug Fix: Console errors on inserting image into a thirsty link
 * Bug Fix: When editing the cloaked url, the final “/” character is not added back
 * Bug Fix: Last 7 days link performance report graph is not accurate
 * Bug Fix: Fix php notices on the log

#### 3.1.3

 * Improvement: Add a small “Edit” link on read only fields on the List view
 * Bug Fix: When migrated, geolocation URLs still have the &. It needs to be changed
   to &

#### 3.1.2

 * Bug Fix: Fix link fixer script to detect links with either http or https protocol
 * Bug Fix: If all modules requiring ta.js are off dequeue it
 * Bug Fix: isThirstyLink should recognize root relative URLs and others
 * Bug Fix: Thirstylink CPT publish status is translatable

#### 3.1.1

 * Bug Fix: Change reports content display method to use callback function instead
 * Bug Fix: Update migration for new tracking script option for GCT module

#### 3.1.0

 * Feature: Add REST API support
 * Feature: Automatically add link prefix in the robots.txt to prevent indexing
 * Feature: Exclude known search engine bots from stats
 * Feature: Trim stats table on a regular cron
 * Improvement: Make sure the insert buttons in link picker popup stay in place
 * Improvement: Readd the social links on the settings Help tab
 * Improvement: Improve the save click data function
 * Bug Fix: Link picker popup starts searching with only 1 character
 * Bug Fix: Uncloaker should not HTML encode & ampersand characters
 * Bug Fix: Authors and Editors cannot see the ThirstyAffiliates link picker button
 * Bug Fix: Htaccess module removes the wrong .htaccess section
 * Bug Fix: Various error messages for different user roles

#### 3.0.3

 * Bug Fix: Visual editor breaks on text widgets
 * Bug Fix: Conflict with Shortcoder plugin
 * Bug Fix: Tour keeps popping up

#### 3.0.2

 * Bug Fix: Link Fixer overrides existing CSS classes on the link
 * Bug Fix: Link Fixer removes any query strings from the cloaked link
 * Bug Fix: Properly handle special characters on the text in which the link is 
   attached
 * Bug Fix: Disabling link CSS and title globally won’t work with Link Fixer
 * Bug Fix: Fix typo on search placeholder on editor
 * Bug Fix: Conflict with OptimizePress theme

#### 3.0.1

 * Bug Fix: Link Fixer overrides existing CSS classes on the link
 * Bug Fix: Delete all stats data of a link when its permanently deleted
 * Bug Fix: Minor code fixes on data migration ( from V2 to V3 )
 * Bug Fix: Properly escape destination urls

#### 3.0.0

**_NOTE: 3.0.0 IS A MAJOR VERSION FULL REWRITE OF THE PLUGIN. WHILE WE HAVE DONE
OUR BEST TO ENSURE A SMOOTH MIGRATION, WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU TEST ON A STAGING
AREA IF POSSIBLE._**

 * Migration Assistant: Migrates your affiliate links to the new 3.0.0 standard 
   on update
 * Migration Assistant: You can also downgrade your affiliate links back to the 
   old format if you downgrade back to version 2.
 * Feature: Rewrote the entire plugin for massive improvements
 * Feature: Implemented new data storage model
 * Feature: Introduced modularization so parts of ThirstyAffiliates can be turned
   on/off
 * Feature: New link picker that looks and works exactly like the standard link 
   tool in WordPress
 * Feature: New advanced link picker (press the cog icon on the link picker) for
   advanced searching and insertion modes (like image insertion)
 * Feature: Choose your default link insertion mode (standard link or shortcode)
 * Feature: Reworked the affiliate link edit screen for clarity
 * Feature: Reworked the entire settings area for clarity
 * Feature: Added additional link information on list view
 * Feature: Introduced Link Fixer – a tool that automatically corrects old/outdated
   affiliate links on the front end
 * Feature: Introduced uncloaking – lets you smartly uncloak links individually 
   or based on their category, great for compatibility with stricter affiliate program
   terms (such as Amazon Associates Terms of Service)
 * Feature: Introduced click tracking & basic reports
 * Feature: Introduced keyboard shortcut commands
 * Feature: Reworked the quick add button feature
 * Feature: Added a plugin tour on activation
 * … plus many other small improvements, tweaks and bug fixes. We hope you love 
   it!

## Commercial plugin

This plugin is free but offers additional paid commercial upgrades or support. [View support](https://thirstyaffiliates.com/support)

## Meta

 *  Version **3.11.10**
 *  Last updated **2 months ago**
 *  Active installations **30,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/),
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   and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/thirstyaffiliates)
 * Tags
 * [affiliate links](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/affiliate-links/)[Amazon affiliates](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/amazon-affiliates/)
   [link shortner](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/link-shortner/)[link tracking](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/link-tracking/)
   [redirects](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/redirects/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thirstyaffiliates/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

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## Support

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