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title: Settings
description: "![W001](https://cdn.wpruby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/05164807/W001.png)Affiliate Butler comes with several settings to make you take full control of the plugin, thus, I will add more settings to cope with the new features. I will add more and more features in the next releases, so stay…"
url: "https://wpruby.com/knowledgebase/settings/"
updated: "2024-02-18"
category: Affiliate Butler PRO
---

# Settings

![W001](https://cdn.wpruby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/05164807/W001.png)Affiliate Butler comes with several settings to make you take full control of the plugin, thus, I will add more settings to cope with the new features. I will add more and more features in the next releases, so stay tuned.

To access the settings page, Go to Affiliate Butler ↣ Settings.

- **Enable Auto Replacement:** This option is a global switch for the plugin, If you want to disable the replacement of the keywords temporarily without deactivating the whole plugin, you just need to uncheck this option.
- **Dofollow?** if you checked this option, you will allow search engines to follow this link and use it in ranking. It simply adds (rel=nofollow) if you unchecked it.
- **Open in** When the visitor clicks on the link, it's either open in a new window or the same window.
- **Shrink?** If you checked this option, the link will be shortened.
- **Case Sensitive?** The plugin will replace the keywords exactly according to the letters case.
- **Auto Link Taxonomies?** Auto link categories and taxonomies term to their archive pages whenever they appear in posts or pages.
- **Limits Per Post** Limit the number of times that the keyword will be converted to a link per post.
- **Excluded HTML tags** These HTML tags will be ignored if keywords are located into them. Separate the tags by a comma. e.g. h1,h2,strong.
- **Short Links Prefix** Change the default prefix of the short-links.
- **Disable Pages/Posts self-linking** If you checked this option, the plugin will not replace the keywords if they appear in post/page where they are auto-linked to.