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I’ve created a plugin for WordPress that can cloak outgoing links in your posts and/or pages.

Features

• Choose what to cloak – all links, only the links you specify or no links at all.
• Choose where to cloak – posts, pages or both.
• Configure the URL – you can set the “prefix” part of the URL (see examples below).
• Exception list – links pointing to domains in this list will not be cloaked. For example, this is useful if you have chosen to cloak all links but don’t want to cloak the links to your own domains.
• Compatible with all browsers – the link cloaker plugin doesn’t use JavaScript so it will work even for visitors that have disabled JS.
• “Smart” cloaking – relative, ambiguous or malformed URLs will not be cloaked. Better safe than sorry.
• As of version 1.1, static link cloaking.

New! The premium version of this plugin is now available and includes several new features :

• Cloak links in any part of your site, including the comment section and the sidebar.
• Works with plugin-created links.
• Five new cloaking types – for example, you can display the cloaked URL in a frame, or use a special redirect that hides the referrer.
• Improved link management and click statistics.
• Free automatic updates.
• And more. Check out EclipseCloaker.com for complete details.

Examples

Here’s a link explicitly tagged for cloaking -
<a href="http://evil-guide.tripod.com/"><!--cloak-->A Cloaked Link</a>
And here’s what it looks like in the post – A Cloaked Link
If you have configured the plugin to cloak all links (the default) you don’t need the <!–cloak–> tag inside your links.

Installation

1. Download the link-cloaking-plugin.zip file.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Upload the `link-cloaking-plugin` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
5. (Optional) Go to Options -> Link Cloaking and modify the default settings to your liking.
6. Re-save your permalink settings to insert the plugin’s link redirection code to the WordPress .htaccess file :
   • WP 2.7 and above : Go to Settings -> Permalinks and click “Save Changes”.
   • Older versions of WP : Go to Options -> Permalinks and click “Update Permalinks”.

Download

Version 1.4.1 : link-cloaking-plugin.zip (9 KB)

Requirements :

• WordPress 2.2 – 2.9
• mod_rewrite. If “pretty permalinks” work on your blog then you probably have this already.