Description
The Smart External Link Click Monitor Plugin allows you to track which external links your visitors click on.
Data are stored on your server. No external service needed.
Retired Plugin
Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you.
There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding.
Feel free to fork this plugin.
Usage
The Link Log Plugin changes all your links to external sites. For example https://www.google.com is changed to something like https://www.example.com/?goto=HUESQ2ifGipAlHg4OTUzfihAUgfz1La8. The link change takes place when a post or page is displayed. Internal links to pages on your domain are not changed, also URLs not starting with http or https are not changed (tracking of tel URLs can be activated optionally). Also attributes (like class or target) are not touched. There is no need to change anything. All links in all posts and pages are changed automatically in front end. When editing a post or page in back end all links appear unchanged.
Settings (optionally)
In ‘Settings’ -> ‘Link Log’ you can change several settings.
Plugin Privacy Information
- This plugin does not set cookies
- This plugin stores encrypted IP-addresses of visitors in your database
- This plugin does not send any data to external servers
For Theme Developers
There are two functions you can use in your theme files:
get_linklog_url( $url ) to get the tracking URL,
e.g. <?php $google = get_linklog_url( 'http://www.google.com' ); ?>
the_linklog_url( $url ) to echo the tracking URL,
e.g. <a href="<?php the_linklog_url( 'http://www.google.com' ); ?>" target"=_blank">Google</a>
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Smart External Link Click Monitor [Link Log]” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Smart External Link Click Monitor [Link Log]” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Smart External Link Click Monitor [Link Log]” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
5.0.2 (2022-10-01) FINAL VERSION
- removed all links to webiste
- removed request for rating
- removed manual
5.0.1 (2022-10-19)
- Settings interface adapted to my other plugins
5 (2019-03-10)
- plugin renamed from link-log to Link Log
- UI improvements
- code improvement
4 (2018-04-30)
- incorrect GDPR compliance alert fixed
3 (2018-04-14)
- encrypt IP-addresses for data protection reasons
- use 303 redirect to avoid browser caching
- priority of filter the_content changed
- minor code- & UI-improvements
2.4 (2017-11-16)
- faulty display in WP 4.9 fixed
2.3 (2017-07-03)
- redesigned admin interface
- code improvement
- 12 new bots added to detection list
2.2 (2016-10-21)
- made plugin ready for translation
- removal of needless characters from encrypted URLs
- faster encryption and decryption
- optional tracking of telephone links
2.1 (2015-12-11)
- Closed SQL Injection vulnerability
2.0 (2015-12-10)
- Closed HTTP Response Splitting vulnerability
- Closed Open Redirect vulnerability
- Menu item title for Link Click Analysis page is now customizable
- Page title for Link Click Analysis page is now customizable
- Customizable link descriptions to show on Link Click Analysis page instead of URLs
1.4 (2015-04-28)
- Option to add rel=“nofollow“ to links
- Option to track only specific posts/pages
- Complete documentation accessible from back end
- Click Analysis now accessible also for Editors, not only for Admins
- Click Analysis now uses standard WP table
- Filtering of results
1.3 (2014-10-26)
- Works now with WPML
The WPML Plugin changes the Home URL by adding the language to it – Link Log now can handle that to work with WPML and other Plugins that change the Home URL (thanks to GREIFF for testing) - Performance Improvement
The browser is now forced to redirect to the target URL before the data is stored to the databse - remove trailing slashes
To avoid duplicate entries for e.g. example.com and example.com/ all trailing slashes are removed now
Update Notice: when updating to version 1.3 all trailing slashes from all existing entries in the database are removed automatically
1.2 (2014-09-19)
- Omit search engines and other bots
1.1 (2014-06-25)
- Omit multiple clicks from same IP
1.0 (2014-02-20)
- Initial Release