Contributors: pojo.me, KingYes, ariel.k
Tags: click tracking, custom post types, redirect, 301, outbound links, pretty links, link manager, links, google analytics, affiliates, external links,
Requires at least: 3.5
Tested up to: 4.3
Stable tag: 1.1.1
License: GPLv2 or later

Manage, create and track outbound links by custom pretty links with your domain. e.g. your-domain.com/go/fb-link

Linker is a simple & easy plugin to manage, create and track outbound links from your website. Linker adds a new custom post type to your Admin menu, where you can create, edit, delete, and manage Links by 301 redirects.

Linker is tracking click counts and save them of a custom field on that custom post type, it really simple & cool.

This plugin work well too with Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast.

Go to the Setting Page of Google Analytics under the Setting Menu, and go to > Internal Links to Track as Outbound > enter "/go/" in the field > choose Label to use.

Now you can show up in Analytics all clicks out. go to Content > Event Tracking > Categories, and you’ll see your Label that used. that's all.

Contributions:

Would you like to like to contribute to Linker? You are more than welcome to submit your pull requests on the GitHub repo. Also, if you have any notes about the code, please open a ticket on ths issue tracker.

1. Upload plugin files to your plugins folder or install using WordPress built-in Add New Plugin installer
2. Activate the plugin
3. Navigate to Settings > Permalinks and save them. Yes, just click Save Changes.
4. Go to the Linker Menu under the Pages
5. Create a new Link and publish
6. Now you can track how many times clicked on each link

• Sure. Just use with linker_prefix_slug filter.

• Requires PHP5 for list management functionality.

• This plugin is released under a GPL license.

• Added translate: Indonesian (id_ID) Thanks to YiiBooster (#20)

• Added filter by Author (#16)
• Added readonly field for Copy-Paste linker
• Updated Dashboard Output
• Dashboard info and CSS external file
• Tested up to WordPress v4.3

• Added Dashboard Widget and Orderby clicks (#13).

• Added translate: Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) Thanks to Rhenan Cardozo
• Tested up to WordPress v4.2.2

• The plugin flush the permalinks automation.
• Tested up to WordPress v4.2

• Tested up to WordPress v4.1

• Tested up to WordPress v4.0

• Added translate: Hebrew (he_IL) - Thanks to Pojo.me

• Blastoff!