Katina Link Manager
The intelligent link manager for WordPress. Manage, cloak, track, and optimize your outbound links.
Use with caution
Katina Link Manager works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 55/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (<10 active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Katina Link Manager stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| affiliate links | >100 |
| link cloaking | #27 |
| link management | >100 |
| link tracking | >100 |
| redirect | >100 |
About Katina Link Manager
From the official readme · v1.3.0Description
Katina Link Manager helps you manage all your outbound links in one place. Create cloaked, trackable links for affiliate programs, partner referrals, or any URL you want to manage centrally.
Why Katina Link Manager?
- Zero nag screens, zero upsell banners, zero review popups
- GDPR-compliant click tracking (no IP addresses stored by default)
- One-click migration from ThirstyAffiliates, Pretty Links, LinkCentral, and Easy Affiliate Links
- Link health monitoring catches broken links before your visitors do
- Ad-blocker safe
- Clean, modern admin interface
Features:
- Custom link management with cloaked URLs
- 301, 302, 307 redirects
- Click tracking with bot filtering
- Link categories and tags
- Gutenberg block and Classic Editor integration
- Link Fixer — automatically syncs link attributes in your content
- Link Index: scans your content for internal and external links, counts them per post, and flags orphan pages with no incoming links
- Link health monitoring (optional, off by default — makes outbound requests to your link destinations)
- CSV import/export
- Nofollow, sponsored, UGC rel attributes
- Query string passthrough
- Dashboard with click statistics and health overview
- Reports: clicks per day, top referrers, top countries, per link or site-wide, with CSV export
- Setup wizard with migration detection
Installation
- Upload
katina-link-managerto/wp-content/plugins/ - Activate the plugin
- The setup wizard will guide you through configuration and migration
Frequently asked questions
Will this plugin nag me for reviews or show upgrade banners?
No. Never. This is a core principle of Katina Link Manager.
Is click tracking GDPR compliant?
Yes. By default, Katina Link Manager does not store IP addresses. Country data is derived at click time and the IP is immediately discarded.
Can I migrate from ThirstyAffiliates or Pretty Links?
Yes. Katina Link Manager includes built-in migration from ThirstyAffiliates, Pretty Links, LinkCentral, and Easy Affiliate Links. The setup wizard detects these automatically, or you can use the Migrate page at any time.
How does link health monitoring work?
Link health monitoring is optional and turned off by default. When you enable it under Settings → Modules, the plugin sends outbound HTTP requests to each of your link destinations twice daily in the background to detect broken links (404s, server errors), which are then flagged in the admin list and on the dashboard. You can also run a manual check at any time. No requests are made until you enable the feature.
Changelog
1.3.0
- New Link Index screen. It reads every link out of your content directly from the database, so drafts, private posts, password-protected pages and noindexed content are all covered. A crawler-based tool sees none of those.
- Each post, page and custom post type shows its incoming internal links, outgoing internal links, external links, and cloaked Katina links, with sorting and a post type filter.
- Orphan pages, meaning nothing on your site links to them, are flagged in the list and can be filtered on their own.
- Export the index to CSV or JSON, optionally including the SEO title and description from Yoast, Rank Math or SEOPress.
- Scanning runs in batches from the admin screen so large sites don’t time out, and individual posts are reindexed as you save them.
- Uninstalling now removes the plugin’s options. They were being looked up under the old pre-rename prefix, so they were being left behind.
1.2.2
- Click logging on a redirect now happens after the visitor has already been sent on their way, instead of before. On PHP-FPM the redirect response is flushed and the connection closed first, then the click is written, so the database write no longer sits on the visitor’s path. This keeps redirects fast under bursts of traffic to a single link (for example a newsletter landing on a large list), where the cloaked URL is the one request that can’t be served from cache. Hosts without fastcgi_finish_request() keep the previous inline behaviour.
1.2.1
- Cloaked link paths are now disallowed in robots.txt (using your configured prefix). The redirects already sent X-Robots-Tag: noindex; the Disallow also keeps crawlers from spending crawl budget fetching redirect URLs just to be told noindex. Sites that discourage search engines are left untouched.
1.2.0
- New Reports screen. Clicks per day, top referrers, top countries, and top links, over a date range you pick (or one of the presets: 7, 30, 90, 365 days, this month, last month, year to date).
- Reports work across every link or for a single link — pick one from the Link filter, or click through from Top links.
- Export the clicks in the selected range to CSV.
- The chart is drawn server-side as inline SVG, so the screen pulls in no charting library and no external assets.
1.1.5
- Link health checks are now off by default and require explicit opt-in. They no longer run on activation; enable them under Settings → Modules to start the background checks. This makes the plugin’s outbound requests fully opt-in.
- Removed the load_plugin_textdomain() call — WordPress.org loads translations automatically since WordPress 4.6.
1.1.4
- Admin styles now load on every Katina admin screen. The dashboard, settings, tools, and setup wizard could render unstyled because the asset gate keyed only on the post type, which some of those screens don’t carry in their URL.
- Cleaned up the “Skip setup” link on the setup wizard so it reads as a plain text link instead of an outlined button.
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Katina Link Manager: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 5, 2026
Is Katina Link Manager free?
Yes. Katina Link Manager is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Katina Link Manager safe to use in 2026?
Katina Link Manager works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 55/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Katina Link Manager?
Katina Link Manager is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 326 times since it launched in July 2026. It was downloaded 52 times in the last 30 days.
Does Katina Link Manager work with WordPress 7.1?
Katina Link Manager is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does Katina Link Manager need?
Katina Link Manager requires PHP 8.0 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Katina Link Manager last updated?
The latest version, 1.3.0, was released on July 26, 2026 (2 months ago).
Who makes Katina Link Manager?
Katina Link Manager is developed and maintained by Jean Galea.
What are the best alternatives to Katina Link Manager?
The most popular alternatives to Katina Link Manager are PrettyLinks (200K+ installs), ThirstyAffiliates (30K+ installs) and BetterLinks (20K+ installs).
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