LazyLink

Description

LazyLink is a lightweight affiliate link manager and click tracker for WordPress. No heavy framework, no third-party dashboard, no click-tracking table that quietly grows into the millions of rows. Your links and your click data stay in your own database.

Free forever core — cloaking, redirects, categories, stats, and import are all in the free plugin. No link cap.

Built for affiliate marketers and bloggers

• Cloaked or direct links — choose per link (/go/your-slug/ cloaked redirects, or plain direct links when a program requires them, e.g. Amazon Associates)
• Real per-link stats — last 7 days, last 30 days, and all-time click counts at a glance, no digging through a generic report screen
• Configurable redirects — 301 or 302, custom /go/ prefix, optional admin-click exclusion

Fast to work with

• [lazylink slug="..."] shortcode, plus an “Insert Affiliate Link” block-editor tool to search or quick-add a link without leaving your post
• Optional keyboard shortcut to open the insert tool while writing — off by default, and offered as a short list of safe combos so it never collides with Bold/Italic/Link or your browser’s own shortcuts
• Categories with their own default link type, so bulk-adding links from one program is quick
• Unlimited links, always free — no artificial cap on how many links you can manage

Switching from another plugin? Bring your links across with the built-in import tool — see the FAQ for supported sources.

Built to stay light

• Vanilla PHP and core WordPress APIs only — no JS frameworks, no build step, no phoning home to a third-party service
• Every query uses $wpdb prepared statements; nonces and capability checks on every admin action

Why LazyLink

LazyLink is built and used daily on a real affiliate site — not a feature checklist assembled to compete on paper. If you’ve outgrown a bloated link plugin, don’t want to pay premium pricing, or just want fewer moving parts, that’s exactly what this is for.

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