{"id":5160,"date":"2009-03-28T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/link-hopper\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:30:24","slug":"link-hopper","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/link-hopper\/","author":2238275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","version":"3.0","stable_tag":"3.0","tested":"6.9.4","requires":"6.0","requires_php":"8.3","requires_plugins":null,"header_name":"Link Hopper","header_author":"Anthony Ferguson","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2026-03-08 04:30:24","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/www.fergusweb.net\/software\/linkhopper\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/www.fergusweb.net","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":100,"downloads":16245,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":{"1.0":{"tag":"1.0","author":"ajferg","date":"2009-03-30 10:54:38"},"1.2":{"tag":"1.2","author":"ajferg","date":"2009-05-20 12:00:49"},"1.3":{"tag":"1.3","author":"ajferg","date":"2009-11-30 20:40:03"},"1.4":{"tag":"1.4","author":"ajferg","date":"2012-12-12 12:52:14"},"3.0":{"tag":"3.0","author":"ajferg","date":"2026-03-08 04:30:24"}},"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["1.0","1.2","1.3","1.4","3.0"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[369,175,558,727],"plugin_category":[35],"plugin_contributors":[82841],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-5160","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-affiliate","plugin_tags-links","plugin_tags-masking","plugin_tags-redirect","plugin_category-advertising","plugin_contributors-anthony-ferguson","plugin_committers-ajferg"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/link-hopper.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"\n

Easily set up links like \/hop\/google\/ to redirect users to www.google.com. This can be useful in masking your affiliate links.<\/p>\n\n

If your affiliate link needs to change, you can just change the HOP values in a single place, without having to search your site for outdated links.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Upload plugin to your wordpress installation plugin directory<\/li>\n
  2. Activate plugin through the Plugins<\/code> menu in Wordpress<\/li>\n
  3. Look at the configuration screen (found under Tools<\/code> in the Wordpress menu)<\/li>\n
  4. Supply a Name and URL for each redirect you want to use.<\/li>\n
  5. You're done!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
    \n

    What's the Base URL?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    If you use hop<\/code>, then your redirection links will look like this:\nhttp:\/\/www.site.com\/hop\/name<\/p><\/dd>\n

    What's a Hop Name?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    The Hop Name appears after the Base URL in the redirection link. This tells the Link Hopper which destination URL to redirect to.<\/p><\/dd>\n

    Does this include statistics and click-tracking?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

    No, not at this time. It's a simple link-redirect script.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

    3.0<\/h4>\n\n
      \n
    • Rewrite the plugin code for modern best practices<\/li>\n
    • Better dev environment<\/li>\n
    • Github to SVN deployment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

      1.4<\/h4>\n\n
        \n
      • Completely re-written code base<\/li>\n
      • Better compatibility with current versions of WordPress<\/li>\n
      • Still requires a permalink setting - anything but default, really.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        1.3<\/h4>\n\n
          \n
        • Older release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Link Hopper lets you set up tidy link redirection to other websites.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/5160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/ajferg"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fao.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}