The Smart External Link Click Monitor Plugin allows you to track which external links your visitors click on.

Data are stored on your server. No external service needed.

5.0.2 (2022-10-01) FINAL VERSION

• removed all links to webiste
• removed request for rating
• removed manual

5.0.1 (2022-10-19)

• Settings interface adapted to my other plugins

5 (2019-03-10)

• plugin renamed from link-log to Link Log
• UI improvements
• code improvement

4 (2018-04-30)

• incorrect GDPR compliance alert fixed

3 (2018-04-14)

• encrypt IP-addresses for data protection reasons
• use 303 redirect to avoid browser caching
• priority of filter the_content changed
• minor code- & UI-improvements

2.4 (2017-11-16)

• faulty display in WP 4.9 fixed

2.3 (2017-07-03)

• redesigned admin interface
• code improvement
• 12 new bots added to detection list

2.2 (2016-10-21)

• made plugin ready for translation
• removal of needless characters from encrypted URLs
• faster encryption and decryption
• optional tracking of telephone links

2.1 (2015-12-11)

• Closed SQL Injection vulnerability

2.0 (2015-12-10)

• Closed HTTP Response Splitting vulnerability
• Closed Open Redirect vulnerability
• Menu item title for Link Click Analysis page is now customizable
• Page title for Link Click Analysis page is now customizable
• Customizable link descriptions to show on Link Click Analysis page instead of URLs

1.4 (2015-04-28)

• Option to add rel="nofollow" to links
• Option to track only specific posts/pages
• Complete documentation accessible from back end
• Click Analysis now accessible also for Editors, not only for Admins
• Click Analysis now uses standard WP table
• Filtering of results

1.3 (2014-10-26)

• Works now with WPML
  The WPML Plugin changes the Home URL by adding the language to it - Link Log now can handle that to work with WPML and other Plugins that change the Home URL (thanks to GREIFF for testing)
• Performance Improvement
  The browser is now forced to redirect to the target URL before the data is stored to the databse
• remove trailing slashes
  To avoid duplicate entries for e.g. example.com and example.com/ all trailing slashes are removed now
  Update Notice: when updating to version 1.3 all trailing slashes from all existing entries in the database are removed automatically

1.2 (2014-09-19)

• Omit search engines and other bots

1.1 (2014-06-25)

• Omit multiple clicks from same IP

1.0 (2014-02-20)

• Initial Release