by Blair Williams 4.6 (251 reviews)

ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin

Name: ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin
Rating: 4.6 (251 reviews)
Author: Blair Williams

🔗 Affiliate link management & cloaker tool. Easily manage, shrink and track your affiliate links in WordPress. 🔥

ThirstyAffiliates ranks #917 among WordPress.org plugins with 30,000+ active installations, is #24 of 1,123 in the Advertising category, a 4.6/5 rating from 251 reviews, and was last updated Oct 30, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v3.12.2 Current Version v3.12.2

Updated 2 days ago Last Update on 30 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 19 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#24 of 1,123 in Advertising Top 5% by installs Downloads +190.8% this week Actively maintained

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#917

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Active Installs

30K+

-24.4%

KW Avg Position

9.2

0.4 worse

Downloads

1.4M

+180 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

92%

Review 4.6 out of 5

4.6 (251 reviews)

Next Milestone 40K

Total Progress 97.3%

30K+ 40K+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.6

251 reviews

Overall 92%

217 (86%)

12 (5%)

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18 (7%)

Support Threads Overview

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Total Threads

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Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

5 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Feb 2, 2026

ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin [thirstyaffiliates] < 3.11.10

CVE-2026-25024 · Fixed in v3.11.10
Dec 9, 2025

ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin [thirstyaffiliates] < 3.11.9

CVE-2025-67537 · Fixed in v3.11.9
Mar 31, 2022

ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin [thirstyaffiliates] < 3.10.5

CVE-2022-0398 · Fixed in v3.10.5
Mar 31, 2022

ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin [thirstyaffiliates] < 3.10.5

CVE-2022-0634 · Fixed in v3.10.5
May 22, 2020

ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin [thirstyaffiliates] < 3.9.3

CVE-2021-24127 · Fixed in v3.9.3

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.12.2
Last Updated: Oct 30, 2026
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Blair Williams

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6
Reviews: 251
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

Amazon affiliates affiliate links link shortner link tracking redirects

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

ThirstyAffiliates is for bloggers and website owners who use affiliate marketing on WordPress. It solves the problem of managing, cloaking, and tracking long or ugly affiliate links by turning them into branded shortlinks with click tracking and reporting.

Affiliate link cloaking/shortener
TA editor button for links
Hierarchical link categories
301/302/307 safe redirects
Smart uncloaking option
Custom post types (no bloat)
Add images to affiliate links
Click statistics and reports

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about ThirstyAffiliates – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin

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. Go back to ThirstyAffiliates->All Affiliate Links and view one of the links, it should be redirecting properly.

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.

Absolutely! ThirstyAffiliates is ready for translation and we also include a number of common languages in our plugin as contributed by our lovely users.

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.

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.