I am cloaking my affiliate link in wordpress and I don't want my user to see it in the status bar or something so is there a way for me to go to a page like www.mysite.com/my-redirect.php?p=foo without me having to create a page or post? or is there a better way?
My redirect.php file will do the redirection after the user lands to this file.
I am using the latest version.
The best way is to create a masked link, which is a unique link that appear to be embedded into your internal link structure, but really is an offsite redirect. A masked link looks something like http://www.myblog.com/recommendeds/wp-traffic-tools/
There are a couple of commercial solutions including:
WP Traffic Tools
Eclipse Link Cloaker
WP Link Engine
And I believe there are some free tools around but due to all the starch in the topic they are not available in the Wordpress Plugin Database, but are available elsewhere. PlanetOzh I believe has a free one floating around.