Simple URLs – Link Cloaking, Product Displays, and Affiliate Link Management
Simple URLs helps you to manage links, create product displays, and grow your affiliate marketing business.
3(44 reviews)
·4.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Simple URLs is a WordPress affiliate plugin with 4.0K+ active installations and a 3/5 rating from 44 reviews. It has been downloaded 260K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.1+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 12% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense.
3/544 reviews
4.0K+active installs
260K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
Simple URLs helps you manage and organize links directly inside WordPress. It’s useful for affiliate marketers, bloggers, and anyone who wants more control over outbound links.
What you can do with Simple URLs
- Create short, clean URLs with custom slugs
- Cloak affiliate links with optional attributes (new window, nofollow, sponsored)
- Organize and edit links from a central dashboard
- Insert links from the editor while writing posts
- Track basic click counts on your links
- Works with both the Block Editor and Classic Editor
Why it’s helpful
With Simple URLs, you don’t need spreadsheets to keep track of affiliate links. Update a link once in your dashboard, and it’s automatically updated everywhere it’s used on your site.
When writing new content, you can quickly search for a link i…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
So far so good.
by samanthabushika·1 year ago
Its pretty early but customer service appears to be on point. I am floored that they don’t have a Divi integration, but heres hoping to the future. I left thirsty affiliates because it just doesnt work with Divi without having to do the cumbersome act of collecting the short codes. I am basing my review on customer service at this point and will update when I have a bit more to go on.
Banner That Never Goes Away
by WP SITES·1 year ago
I asked the plugin dev how to get rid of the banner and he stated once its dismissed, its permanent which is a blatant lie. When it was Simple URL’s it was great, now the most annoying plugin in the repo.
Need to work out how to migrate out of Lasso permanently.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by WP SITES.
Great Product
by vegasbrianc·1 year ago
Great Plugin, design, and experience. Thanks for the great product!
annoying on purpose
by nilreb5·1 year ago
Instead of just letting you use the plugin, they make Lasso Lite ugly and cumbersome on purpose to force you to subscribe. No Thanks
Very good plugin
by GeoffreyCRM·1 year ago
The affiliate links on my website were a mess and all needed replacing. This plugin is so good and allows the creation of attractive affilate links which are also easy to manage. There is not a whole amount of customisation – but what do you expect with the free version? Definitely 100% recommended from me.
Download Trends
Today: 39Yesterday: 64This week: 274Period total: 45K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.1+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v145
43.1%
Other
31.9%
v0.9
10.9%
v143
7.1%
v140
7.0%
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Changelog
145
- Released: March 3, 2026
- Deployment packaging improvements
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