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Add & Replace Affiliate Links for Amazon

by The Website Flip · Uncategorized

Add & Replace Affiliate Links for Amazon plugin helps you to add or update Amazon Associate tag parameters in links.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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40 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 62/100
Support 70/100

40 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

65/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Reviews souring. Recent reviews read meaningfully worse than older ones, an early sign of decline.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

47 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 6/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 68/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1660 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+22% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

100

now · peak 162

10730d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Add & Replace Affili · #8727 you HT Slider Range for · #40740 Amazon Product in a · #7623 Spreadr Woocommerce · #9195

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.2Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

214per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

4.5y ago

latest release · v1.0.6

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.6 · 4.5y ago1.0.5 · 4.7y ago1.0.4 · 4.7y ago1.0.2 · 6.3y ago1.0.1 · 6.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈550

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2021-05-13 · 1,422 observations

500Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.6
Last updated
4.5y ago
Added
2020-01-05 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
5.6
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 12 reviews to 2025-10-03
Deteriorating Broken updatesPraiseCompatibility

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.

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. johnd88x
    11mo 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
    1.1y 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
    3.3y ago

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

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  4. Mike
    3.8y 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
    4.0y 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
    4.1y 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
    4.2y 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
    4.2y 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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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-06-27 CVE-2025-53285 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.0.6 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  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

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