This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

WP-HideRefer

Description

When your readers follow links from your blog, the linked site can see where they come from. Thus; your blog is known by every site you’ve ever linked to.

WP-HideRefer adds proxies to your outgoing links, keeping your site private!

There are many plugins to anonymize links. What makes WP-HideRefer better is:

//Ulf Benjaminsson

(Please note that WP-HideRefer requires PHP 5 or newer.)

Additional Notes

Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Ulf Benjaminsson (hello at my full name dot com)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Screenshots

  • The settings panel

Installation

  1. Extract the wp-hiderefer-folder and transfer it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to Settings->WP-HideRefer to adjust settings.

FAQ

What’s the White List for?

Once the plugin is activated it redirects all links via a proxy, except for the URLs you enter in this list.

If you used to manually add proxies to your links, add those proxies to the White List to avoid double-proxying. You should also white list your own domain.

What anonymizing services are supported?

You can use any service which runs of URL parameters.

Reviews

July 19, 2021
Does its job just fine on WordPress 5.7.2 and PHP 7.4. If I had anything to complain about is that it doesn't touch links from shortcodes, but maybe that's a WP limitation rather than a plugin bug/malfunction.
May 31, 2018
The plugin does not work as advertised. Tests still show referrers.
Read all 4 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“WP-HideRefer” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.12

Tested for WordPress 5.x and PHP 7.x

1.11

Don’t display warnings to end user when HTML is poorly formated.

1.1

Handle relative links correctly (ergo; don’t proxy internal links)

1.0

Public release.