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.

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.

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.

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.

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