Remove Social ID for WP

Description

Facebook, Google(adwords), Microsoft Advertising is now adding a fbclid, gclid, msclkid argument to all the shared URLs respectively. Each visitor/user now comes from Facebook with a unique URL, because of this cache and various other functionality breaks on WordPress site.

Specially redirect rules get broken and pages show 404 error sometimes.

This plugin scans the incoming url for fbclid, gclid and redirect to the url after removing the querystring.

Installation

Upload the directory ‘/remove-social-id/’ to your WP plugins directory and activate from the Dashboard of the main blog.

Faq

None at this time

Reviews

Works: straightforward and efficient

By kentaiwan98 on July 28, 2025

Great. I couldn't find it in the WordPress App store inside my site. I don't know why. But uploading direct from here is fine!

I'm Glad I Found This

By spectraemail on February 25, 2025

This plugin does exactly what it says it will do and doesn't cause any problems for the site. Nice job!

To the point

By Esteban (TCattd) on May 31, 2023

It does what's supposed to do, and do it fine. No issues.

Does NOT work on 6.1

By lastqa on January 3, 2023

This broke my website on WP 6.1, too many redirects error, publisher expects users to be programmers and debug it themselves. Too bad since it would be really nice to have this feature.

Great - works as described

By khrisme on June 29, 2022

Great - works as described. Simple to use. 🙂 Thank you!

Excellent

By brobken on February 16, 2022

Worked out of the box. Resolved an issue where the additional parameters that Facebook adds to your shared URL would redirect our articles to the homepage. Big Thanks!

Changelog

1.3

Added support for MSCLKID

1.2

Support for WP 6.6

1.1

Added support for GCLID ( Google Adwords )

1.0

First version release