10 Best ThirstyAffiliates Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
ThirstyAffiliates has 30,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to ThirstyAffiliates
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BetterLinks – Link Shortener, Link Cloaking, Redirects, Affiliate Link Manager & MCP
4.8 (85) 20,000+ active installsShorten, cloak, redirect & track every link in WordPress. Branded short URLs, click analytics, affiliate links & MCP access for AI assistants.
Shares the affiliate links, redirects tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 15 days ago.
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4.9 (157) 100,000+ active installsLets you make a WordPress page (or port or other content type) link to a URL of your choosing (on your site, or on another site), instead of its norma …
About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.6, last updated April 4, 2026.
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4.3 (43) 7,000+ active installsRedirects visitors to a blog page or a predefined URL based on their country and region geolocated using IP address.
About a quarter of the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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301 Redirects – Redirect Manager
4.7 (578) 300,000+ active installsManage 301 & 302 redirects. Simple redirection & redirects validation. Includes redirect stats & 404 error log.
Shares the redirects tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated 23 days ago.
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301 Redirects & 404 Error Log
4.6 (28) 30,000+ active installsCreate & manage 301 redirects. Easily test redirects. Includes 404 error log.
Shares the redirects tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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5.0 (412) 100,000+ active installsRedirection
Shares the redirects tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.6, last updated May 8, 2026.
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AffiliateX – Amazon Affiliate Plugin, Product Boxes, Comparison Tables & Affiliate Link Tracking
4.5 (34) 9,000+ active installsAffiliateX is the best WordPress Amazon Affiliate Plugin. Create professional affiliate websites with customizable WordPress Amazon Affiliate Blocks.
Shares the affiliate links tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads
4.9 (2,428) 300,000+ active installsManage Google AdSense ads, banners, ad rotation, sticky widgets, AMP ads, ads.txt, tracking, header and footer code, PHP code, global custom fields
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.6, last updated July 27, 2026.
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4.1 (96) 200,000+ active installsUsing this plugin, you can fix all 404 error links by redirecting them to homepage using the SEO 301 redirection. Improve your SEO rank & pages speed
About 6.7 times the installs, rated 4.1 against 4.6, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.7 (275) 200,000+ active installsRedirect to any page or URL, execute scripts after submission, save data to the database, and unlock additional submission actions for Contact Form 7.
About 6.7 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.6, last updated 5 days ago.
Switching from ThirstyAffiliates: common questions
What is the best alternative to ThirstyAffiliates?
BetterLinks is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which ThirstyAffiliates alternative has the most users?
301 Redirects, with 300,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which ThirstyAffiliates alternative is rated highest?
Redirection, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 412 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these ThirstyAffiliates alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with ThirstyAffiliates score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against ThirstyAffiliates on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
BetterLinks is the closest match to ThirstyAffiliates by the data we track, and 301 Redirects has the widest reach with 300,000+ active installs. Redirection for Contact Form 7 shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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