Best WordPress Affiliate Plugins in 2026

Data from WordPress.org Updated September 7, 2026 First published September 4, 2026 5 min read

Referral tracking, commissions and payouts for affiliates you run yourself.

An affiliate plugin runs a referral programme on your own site: it hands partners a tracking link, records the sales those links produce, and calculates what you owe. It is a small accounting system living inside WordPress, and it is only as trustworthy as its tracking.

Together these 10 plugins run on more than 159,000 active WordPress sites. Ranked from both WordPress.org orderings for "affiliate", its tag listing and its search results.

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Best for each measure
Quick comparison
The top 10
What moved
How to choose
Head-to-head
How this list is ranked
FAQ
Conclusion
Other rankings

Best Affiliate Plugin for each measure

One plugin per measure, taken from the same WordPress.org figures as the ranking. A measure with nothing behind it is left out rather than guessed.

Most installed: Advanced Ads
100,000+, active installs reported by WordPress.org
Highest rated: Advanced Ads
4.9 out of 5, from 1,462 reviews, counting only plugins with at least 50
Most reviewed: Advanced Ads
1,462 reviews, the largest body of feedback behind a score
Most recently updated: Auto Affiliate Links
September 4, 2026, the latest release in this list
Longest established: Auto Affiliate Links
January 14, 2011, first published on WordPress.org
Best support record: SliceWP Affiliates
9 of 9 resolved, recent threads on the WordPress.org support forum

Affiliate Plugins compared: rating, reviews, installs

#	Plugin	Rating	Reviews	Active installs
1	SliceWP Affiliates	4.9	108	10,000+
2	Coupon Affiliates	4.9	76	5,000+
3	Easy Affiliate Links	4.2	34	7,000+
4	Affiliates Manager	4.1	61	8,000+
5	AffiliateX	4.5	34	9,000+
6	Advanced Ads	4.9	1,462	100,000+
7	Content Egg	3.9	55	10,000+
8	YITH WooCommerce Affiliates	4.2	19	6,000+
9	affiliate-toolkit	4.5	22	2,000+
10	Auto Affiliate Links	4.1	39	2,000+

The 10 best Affiliate Plugins, ranked by WordPress.org

Ranked from both WordPress.org orderings for "affiliate", its tag listing and its search results. Arrows show movement against the previous snapshot.

1.SliceWP Affiliates

Affiliate Program Suite — SliceWP Affiliates

4.9 (108) 10,000+ active installs Updated Aug 27, 2026 Tested up to 7.1.0

SliceWP is the quickest and easiest WordPress affiliates plugin for building your affiliate program. Track affiliate commissions, easily pay your affi …

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2.Coupon Affiliates
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Coupon Affiliates – Affiliate Plugin for WooCommerce

4.9 (76) 5,000+ active installs Updated Aug 31, 2026 Tested up to 7.1

The most powerful affiliate plugin for WooCommerce. Track commission, generate referral URLs, assign affiliate coupons, and display detailed stats.

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3.Easy Affiliate Links
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4.2 (34) 7,000+ active installs Updated Aug 19, 2026 Tested up to 7.1 Paid version available

Easily manage and cloak all your affiliate links.

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4.Affiliates Manager
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4.1 (61) 8,000+ active installs Updated Sep 2, 2026 Tested up to 7.1

Affiliates Manager plugin can help you manage an affiliate marketing program to drive more traffic and more sales to your site.

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5.AffiliateX

AffiliateX – Amazon Affiliate Plugin, Product Boxes, Comparison Tables & Affiliate Link Tracking

4.5 (34) 9,000+ active installs Updated Aug 26, 2026 Tested up to 7.1

AffiliateX is the best WordPress Amazon Affiliate Plugin. Create professional affiliate websites with customizable WordPress Amazon Affiliate Blocks.

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6.Advanced Ads

Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense

4.9 (1,462) 100,000+ active installs Updated Aug 3, 2026 Tested up to 7.0.4

The only complete toolkit for all ad types. Grow your revenue with AdSense, Amazon—or any affiliate network. Get pinpoint targeting and best support!

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7.Content Egg

Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison

3.9 (55) 10,000+ active installs Updated Sep 3, 2026 Tested up to 7.1

Import affiliate products, compare prices, and publish product reviews with 25+ editorial Gutenberg blocks.

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8.YITH WooCommerce Affiliates

4.2 (19) 6,000+ active installs Updated Aug 26, 2026 Tested up to 7.1 Paid version available

YITH WooCommerce Affiliates allows you to create affiliate profiles and grant your affiliates earnings each time someone purchases from their link.

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9.affiliate-toolkit

affiliate-toolkit – Multi-Network Affiliate & Amazon Product Display

4.5 (22) 2,000+ active installs Updated Aug 7, 2026 Tested up to 7.0.4

Fast & Compatible with every WordPress Theme: With our plugin for WordPress, you can easily create and add your affiliate products to your website.

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10.Auto Affiliate Links

4.1 (39) 2,000+ active installs Updated Sep 4, 2026 Tested up to 7.1

Automatically display affiliate links in your website content so you can make more money. It is also working well for internal linking.

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What changed in the Affiliate Plugins ranking

Coupon Affiliates #2 ▲1
Easy Affiliate Links #3 ▲1
Affiliates Manager #4 ▼2

How to choose a Affiliate Plugin for WordPress

1
Tracking is the whole thing
If attribution is wrong, affiliates leave. Check the cookie window, what happens on a cross-device visit, and how the plugin handles a refunded order.
2
Confirm it hooks into your store
Commissions have to come from real orders. Check the integration with your specific ecommerce or membership plugin, not just that one exists.
3
Look at the affiliate side of the screen
Partners need their own dashboard, their links and honest numbers. A programme with no visibility gets abandoned quietly.
4
Plan the payouts before the launch
Thresholds, schedules and the actual transfer are manual in most free tiers. Know what that costs you monthly.

Affiliate Plugin comparisons: side by side

The top four against each other on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.

How we rank Affiliate Plugins

WordPress.org publishes two orderings for "affiliate" and neither is reliable alone. The tag listing covers every tag the directory files these plugins under, "affiliate", "affiliates" and "affiliate-marketing", and is sorted by active installs, which lets a large plugin carrying one of them loosely sit above the ones the category is about. Its search results are sorted by relevance and carry their own noise. So a plugin is placed here by where it sits across both lists: high in each one lifts it, high in only one does not. We fetch both every day at 03:00 UTC, keep every day's snapshot, and add nothing of our own. No plugin is inserted, removed or sponsored, and each entry shows its position in both lists on its own page. Full methodology.

Affiliate Plugins FAQ

What is the best Affiliate Plugin for WordPress?

On WordPress.org's own ranking for "affiliate", SliceWP Affiliates is #1 as of September 7, 2026, with 10,000+ active installs and a 4.9 out of 5 rating. By active installs, Advanced Ads leads with 100,000+. By rating, Advanced Ads scores 4.9 out of 5 from 1,462 reviews.

Which Affiliate Plugin has the most active installs?

Advanced Ads, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org as of September 7, 2026. It ranks #6 in this list.

Which Affiliate Plugin has the highest rating?

Advanced Ads, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,462 reviewers on WordPress.org. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted, so a single 5-star review does not win.

Which Affiliate Plugin was updated most recently?

Auto Affiliate Links shipped its latest release on September 4, 2026. 10 of the 10 plugins in this list were updated in the last 90 days, which is the usual sign of active maintenance.

How many Affiliate Plugins are there on WordPress.org?

WordPress.org lists 421 plugins tagged "affiliate", "affiliates" and "affiliate-marketing" as of September 7, 2026. This page shows the top 10 in the directory's own order.

Are these Affiliate Plugins free?

All 10 are free to install from WordPress.org. 2 of them are listed as commercial, meaning the developer sells a paid version or add-ons: Easy Affiliate Links, YITH WooCommerce Affiliates.

How reliable is affiliate tracking with cookies?

Less than it used to be. Browsers cap or delete third-party and long-lived cookies, and a visitor who buys on a different device is invisible to a cookie. Plugins that also store the referral against the order at checkout, or support coupon-code attribution, lose fewer sales than cookie-only tracking.

What commission rate should I set?

That is a margin question rather than a plugin one. What the plugin decides is whether you can express it: percentage or fixed, different rates per product or per affiliate, recurring commission on subscriptions, and whether a refund claws the commission back. Check those before the rate.

Affiliate Plugins: the bottom line

As of September 7, 2026, SliceWP Affiliates holds the #1 spot for "affiliate" on WordPress.org, followed by Coupon Affiliates and Easy Affiliate Links. If install base matters most, Advanced Ads leads with 100,000+ active installs. If ratings matter most, Advanced Ads scores 4.9 out of 5 across 1,462 reviews.