🌠 Shorten, brand, and track any URL on your own domain. Keep your links — and your data — where they belong. 🔗
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (1.3K)
- Updated
- 10 days ago
ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin
🔗 Affiliate link management & cloaker tool. Easily manage, shrink and track your affiliate links in WordPress. 🔥
- Active installs
- 30,000+
- #916 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.4M
- 1,404,634
- Downloads, 30 days
- 27.5K
- 12.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5
- 251 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 days ago
- Oct 29, 2026
- Version
- 3.12.2
- 69 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | July 15, 2013 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.6 / 5 from 251 reviews
| 5 stars | 217 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 12 |
| 3 stars | 2 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 18 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
🔗 Affiliate link management & cloaker tool. Easily manage, shrink and track your affiliate links in WordPress. 🔥
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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:
- Install & activate the ThirstyAffiliates plugin
- Go to Affiliate Links -> Add New
- Enter the destination URL (your affiliate link) and a title
- The plugin creates a new shortlink/link redirect to your long ugly affiliate link by making a pretty link with your own website URL
- 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
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
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:
- Deactivate ThirstyAffiliates, don’t worry your links are safely stored in the database.
- Reactivate ThirstyAffiliates
- Visit the Settings->Permalinks page and click save.
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 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.
Latest changelog entry
- Security: Hardened how affiliate link tags are handled in comments.
Screenshots
Adding an Affiliate Link 
Affiliate Link Listing 
Settings Page 
Category Page
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.