Title: Link cloaking with redirect script? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Link cloaking with redirect script? * [julie24n24](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julie24n24/) * (@julie24n24) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-cloaking-with-redirect-script/) * Hi I am a newbie here and have recently created a blog with affiliate links. I have been looking into purchasing a link cloaking software but was told that this is unnecessary. Instead I have been told touse the following redirect script * **The instructions given are as follows:** * > Just place the affiliate link in the script and save it with whatever nice > looking name you want and then use that in you rweb pages. When you save it > put .php as the extension and not .txt * ** SCRIPT as follows: * > header( ‘Location: [http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html’](http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html’););? > > * As I said, I am a complete newbie and I am totally lost as to what all of this means! Can someone please explain it to me in generic language?? Thanks! Julie Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/) * (@apljdi) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-cloaking-with-redirect-script/#post-1223175) * That script will immediately redirect people to whatever URL you provide. Is that what you want? * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-cloaking-with-redirect-script/#post-1223178) * The script would work, but its a lot of messing about as you’d have to manually create and maintain a separate text file for each link. * It would probably be easier to use the [Simple Link Cloaker](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ilwp-simple-link-cloaker/) plugin. * Or do a search for ‘redirect’ or ‘cloak’ in the * [plugin directory](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/) There are a few plugins available that should do the job. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Link cloaking with redirect script?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-cloaking-with-redirect-script/#post-1223178) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics