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Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce

by datafeedr

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Description

The Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce plugin allows you to mask all external links in your WooCommerce store.

For example, change this…
merchant.com/index.php?aff_id=123&product_id=456

… into this:
yoursite.com/go/123

Configure the status code for the redirect to either 301, 302 or 307.

The plugin also adds a “Disallow” to your robots.txt file to prevent bots from following those external links.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload the woocommerce-cloak-affiliate-links folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Configure the plugin by going to Settings > WC Cloak Links.
  1. Settings

    Settings

  2. Permalinks

    Permalinks

What redirect status should I use, 301, 302 or 307?

There’s a lot of debate about this. I would suggest Googling this and seeing which works best for you. The default status is 302.

Has problem with All Import data feed

By borgcollective on March 8, 2023

Plugin has problem with cloaking affiliate links when data feed imported through All Import plugin into woocommerce. All old product imports finished before cloaking addon installation does fine and when clickon button it leads you where it should. However , when cloaking addon is active while importing products through data feed ,addon just sets cloaking link instead affiliate link and on click doesn't lead anywhere... And if you disable addon , those cloaking links stay permanently on product unless you rerun your product feed again so it can update aff links. Other products which are imported before plugin activation and they were cloaked with new permalink after plugin deactivation returns original url.

Although , if you run WP All Import manually addon works flawlessly. It seams that only has problem with feeds scheduled with Cron jobs

Seo

By Karol (somrafka) on September 18, 2021

Will SEO improve when I disable external links?

The plugin works the best!

By ilyapokrov on December 9, 2020

Do not pay attention to the fact that the plugin has few active installations at the moment. It is truly the best in its segment. There is no need to configure anything - I activated the plugin and the problem is solved. Even though 5 stars is the maximum rating, I will rate it 10 stars! Highly recommend!

Great plugin

By kaudo on May 12, 2020

Set and forget solution.

THANK YOU!

By Volvera (emresert86) on March 11, 2018

This is exactly what I needed.

Awesome plugin!

By Joseph (xmsmmgrs) on November 4, 2017

I use it for some time now and I am very happy with it! Thanks!

Great plugin!

By val1975 on October 25, 2017

It is a rare plugin , does redirect all affiliate links in bulk ,each one to a custom redirect., automatically, you dont have to each one by one !!! .

Easy to use

By pansotdev on September 3, 2016

Easy to use and nice plugin!

Easy and works

By gamedtoday on September 3, 2016

This is a plug and play plugin. Just added it through the installer right within wordpress and all my ref links are cloaked.. easy 🙂

1.0.37 – 2025/09/15

  • Changed plugin name to comply with WooCommerce’s trademark.

1.0.36 – 2024/12/30

  • Fixed CSRF issue

1.0.35 – 2024/07/05

  • Updated “tested up to” value

1.0.34 – 2024/03/18

  • Updated permalink saving.

1.0.33 – 2023/11/10

  • Updated “tested up to” value
  • Declared WooCommerce HPOS compatibility

1.0.32 – 2023/05/02

  • Added 2 public properties to Wccal class.

1.0.31 – 2023/04/20

  • Updated “tested up to” values.

1.0.30 – 2022/10/28

  • Updated “tested up to” values.

1.0.29 – 2021/08/09

  • Added wccal_product_url_permalink filter.
  • Added wccal_product_url_qs filter.

1.0.28 – 2021/07/13

  • Forgot one small change in last update.

1.0.27 – 2021/07/13

  • Updated to support WordPress 5.8.
  • Updated to support WooCommerce 5.5.

1.0.26 – 2020/03/08

  • Updated to support WordPress 5.7.

1.0.25 – 2020/12/01

  • Updated to support WordPress 5.6.

1.0.24 – 2020/09/30

  • Updated to support WooCommerce 4.5.

1.0.23 – 2020/07/27

  • Updated to support WooCommerce 4.3.

1.0.22 – 2020/03/11

  • Updated to support WooCommerce 4.0.

1.0.21 – 2019/11/12

  • Updated readme.

1.0.20 – 2019/08/20

  • Updated for WooCommerce 3.7

1.0.19 – 2019/05/06

  • Updated readme.

1.0.18 – 2019/04/23

  • Updated readme.

1.0.17 – 2019/02/19

  • Updated readme.

1.0.16 – 2018/12/07

  • Updated readme.

1.0.15 – 2018/07/30

  • Disables cloaking of URLs during WooCommerce Product Exporting.

1.0.14 – 2018/03/14

  • Declared required and supported WooCommerce version.

1.0.13 – 2018/03/13

  • Updated readme file.

1.0.12 – 2018/01/17

  • Added README file for GitHub.

1.0.11 – 2017/11/30

  • Fixed compatibility issue with WooZone.

1.0.10 – 2017/09/29

  • Fixed woocommerce_product_class() so that Wccal_Product_External is returned when the admin-ajax.php is requested from the frontend.

1.0.9 – 2017/05/01

  • Changed woocommerce_clean() to wc_clean().

1.0.8 – 2017/04/18

  • Fixed bug introduced with WooCommerce 3.0+ where affiliate link was being rewritten on product edit page in the WordPress Admin Area.

1.0.7 – 2017/03/20

  • Changed get_site_url() to home_url() to fix this error.

1.0.6 – 2017/02/16

  • Added $context argument to get_product_url() method to support changes in WooCommerce 2.7.

1.0.5

  • Just updating readme.

1.0.4

  • Added user_trailingslashit() function to returned redirect URL. (#9588)

1.0.3

  • Updated ‘tested up to’ tag.

1.0.2

  • Added “static” to static methods to meet Strict Standards.
  • Updated plugin information.

1.0.1

  • Changed author name to “datafeedr.com”
  • Flushed rewrite rules on plugin activation/deactivation.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
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