Add & Replace Affiliate Links for Amazon

Reviewers say it does expand and retag Amazon links, but many report it mangling apostrophes and punctuation into junk characters across entire posts, with a few recent users calling it flawless if you skip the nofollow option.

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1. ★★★★★ johnd88x

   1.1y ago

   Amazing plugin that has saved me countless hours of manual work – Option 1 (Expand Shortened Amazon Links) and Option 2 (Add or Replace Existing ID Tag) work perfectly. Just don’t use Option 3 (Add NoFollow Link Attribute) – This corrupts the database and adds illegal characters (like ​) throughout posts. I’m sure most of the 1-star reviews are the result of this. As always be sure to make a backup prior to using the plugin.

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2. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   1.3y ago

   Worked flawlessly! I can’t tell you how many hours this plugin saved me. This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by majac. Reason: I just used it with ver. 6.9 & it was perfect!

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3. ★★★★★ Samuel

   3.4y ago

   Plugin crashed my website and added random characters like ​ and  to my posts.

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4. ★★★★★ Mike

   4.0y ago

   This plug truly does the job of expanding amazon links and even replacing with new tag. However, it adds many random irrelevant characters to your contents, replacing some of characters you had like apostrophe, comma e.t.c

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5. ★★★★★ mattatnicolebarkerva

   4.2y ago

   I wish I would have read reviews before I used this plugin. While it does the job of expanding shortened links and replacing the old Amazon account with the new one….it also destroys your entire site. For some reason it decides to convert all the apostrophies, quotes, and other punctuation to their unicode settings in the DB. When you run this plugin, every one of these punctuation marks (meaning all of them in your content…not just amazon links) get changed to something link ’ in the Database. The only way to fix it is to completely restore your DB. A major issue that happened to two of my sites that I used this on. Please read this review before you corrupt your entire site. A to the developer, please read these kinds of comments (I am not the only one reporting this) and either remove your plugin or fix it so you aren’t corrupting your users sites that trust you.

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6. ★★★★★ mikeygeo

   4.3y ago

   It automatically adds their own affiliate ID “tag=wpamazify-21” to all my URLs, even after using the option to remove the tags, it added them at the last of the URL, they are running a scam here. Report it ASAP

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7. ★★★★★ Free SSL Certificate for WordPress

   4.4y ago

   Hi This plugin shows it is working, shows the progress, and shows the list of pages that it has updated, but they still have short links of amazon, however it is actually not working. Get’s stuck at some point. Tested on multiple servers, all had issues. Please update your plugin or remove it, if it does not work!

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8. ★★★★★ monkeysniffer08

   4.4y ago

   We have been experiencing this issue for months and couldn’t figure out the culprit. Finally realized it was this plugin. It was replacing multiple punctuation such as apostrophes and semicolons with random characters such as the euro and TM and others ’. SO FREAKING ANNOYING. No way to fix it easily it seems either. Fix your plugin before ruining other people’s affiliate sites.

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1 open vulnerability affects the current version (1.0.6). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.

1. Open Medium · 4.4 Add &amp; Replace Affiliate Links for Amazon <= 1.0.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-06-27 CVE-2025-53285 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.0.6 No patch available

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1. 2026-07-25 600+ → 500+ down after 180 days in tier
2. 2026-01-26 700+ → 600+ down after 211 days in tier
3. 2025-06-29 800+ → 700+ down after 99 days in tier
4. 2025-03-22 900+ → 800+ down after 113 days in tier
5. 2024-11-29 1K+ → 900+ down after 951 days in tier
6. 2022-04-23 600+ → 1K+ up

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Add & Replace Affiliate Links for Amazon: 500+ active installs, 3.2★ (17 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/add-replace-affiliate-links-for-amazon