As of April 2026, Affiliate Links Cloaking is a WordPress link plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 389 times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
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389total downloads
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Overview
There are few methods to cloak links from search engines. But most methods do not work.
Most popular bad methods are:
- Cloak by JavaScript — it is not work now. Because Google and other search engins can run JS-code and can recognise your link.
- Cloak by redirect — spiders can follow redirect, and this method also can’t work. The weight of your web page is leaked through this type of links.
What to do?
The only working method we know for cloak links at the moment is to cloak links via FORM with method POST.
According to the standard, search engines should never send POST forms. Since POST requests are used to change information on the site. And if search engines send them, the consequences can be unpredictable.
How does this method work? Instead of each link, a form with…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Changelog
0.9.0
- First release.
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