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Tips and Tricks HQ Forum » Forum: WP Affiliate F.A.Q/Instructions - Recent Posts http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/forum/wp-affiliate-faq Support Forum for Tips and Tricks HQ Products en-US Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:56:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/search.php kimmy on "Didn't get an email from my AR after did a test affiliate sign-up" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/didnt-get-an-email-from-my-ar-after-did-a-test-affiliate-sign-up#post-29079 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:07:00 +0000 kimmy 29079@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ I have my Autoreponder settings (including API) filled out within Wp-affiliate, but yet when I signed up as a test in my affiliate program today, my autoresponder does not send me a message even though it's set up to send me one today. What could be the problem? I'm using GetResponse. admin on "Can I use the WP Affiliate Platform Plugin on a Standalone HTML page?" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/can-i-use-the-wp-affiliate-platform-plugin-on-a-standalone-html-page#post-28808 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:47:53 +0000 admin 28808@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ WP Affiliate plugin is a WordPress plugin so it can only be used with a WordPress site (just like any other WordPress plugin). It will not work on a standalone HTML page. WordPress plugins do not work outside of WordPress. Can you use your Akismet plugin from one install to block spams on another WordPress install? No. The plugin only works in the same WordPress install where the plugin is also installed. Don't use plain HTML pages (the days of using plain HTML pages are over). You are using WordPress for a reason and WordPress has a superior method of creating sales/landing pages. Its called "Custom page template". This following article will explain more: <a href="http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-and-use-custom-page-template-in-wordpress-to-create-a-sales-page-2095" rel="nofollow">http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-and-use-custom-page-template-in-wordpress-to-create-a-sales-page-2095</a> Here is a video tutorial showing how to create a custom WordPress page template: <a href="http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-a-custom-wordpress-page-template-video-tutorial-3918" rel="nofollow">http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-a-custom-wordpress-page-template-video-tutorial-3918</a> Essentially it will be just like your stand alone sales page but it will be part of your WordPress installation so WordPress will be able to execute plugin codes in this page. When you create sales pages using the above method in WordPress all the plugins that are installed in this WordPress will be able to work on that sales page (for example: tracking your Google Analytics) and the affiliate plugin will automatically work. If you just create a stand alone HTML page (sale-page.html) and keep it somewhere on your site, the WordPress system does not know its existence and WordPress plugins can't perform tasks on resources that is not part of WordPress. masmoola on "How to make PayPal Email a Required Field for Affiliate Sign-up" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-make-paypal-email-a-required-field-for-affiliate-sign-up#post-27125 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:21:17 +0000 masmoola 27125@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ Perfect. Thank you. Peter on "How to make PayPal Email a Required Field for Affiliate Sign-up" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-make-paypal-email-a-required-field-for-affiliate-sign-up#post-27118 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:23:21 +0000 Peter 27118@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ Hi, Instead of changing the code you can now simply use the new setting as mentioned by admin in the response above. Just go to the Affiliate settings page and enable the "Make PayPal Email Address a Required Field" checkbox. If you can't see this field you will need to upload the newest version of Affiliate plugin: <a href="http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/re-install-or-load-a-fresh-build-of-the-plugins" rel="nofollow">http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/re-install-or-load-a-fresh-build-of-the-plugins</a> masmoola on "How to make PayPal Email a Required Field for Affiliate Sign-up" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-make-paypal-email-a-required-field-for-affiliate-sign-up#post-27105 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:58:44 +0000 masmoola 27105@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ I went in to change this according to the directions above and I see the code has changed slightly in the newer version. Can you offer new directions to help me make the paypal email mandatory? thanks admin on "WP Affiliate Platform - How to get nicer Affiliate URLs?" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-get-nicer-urls#post-25789 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:08:15 +0000 admin 25789@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ The answer to your question is in the previous post. Your affiliates who know how to do it will already be doing it by using a link cloaker software/plugin or a link shortener. This is one of the main reasons services and products that allow you shorten or cloak links exists. One of the easiest ways to do this is to take the affiliate link then run it through a link shortener and then share that shortened version of the link. If some of your affiliates do not know how to do this then you can leave some instruction on your site to educate them. cflyrun on "WP Affiliate Platform - How to get nicer Affiliate URLs?" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-get-nicer-urls#post-25784 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:03:06 +0000 cflyrun 25784@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ I'm curious about this too. My affiliates are posting links to Facebook and it looks pretty amateurish - how can I get pretty URLs for them to be sharing? admin on "Creating Pass Thru Affiilate Links for External Site" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/creating-pass-thru-affiilate-links-for-external-site/page/3#post-24190 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:40:03 +0000 admin 24190@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ The actual page with the payment button needs to be in WordPress (this way the affiliate plugin can hook into things). A WordPress plugin cannot control anything on a stand alone HTML page. rickymitch on "Creating Pass Thru Affiilate Links for External Site" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/creating-pass-thru-affiilate-links-for-external-site/page/3#post-24188 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:29:44 +0000 rickymitch 24188@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ Hi - Having read this thread i have successfully setup the redirect to my subdomain that contains a non-WP landing page. On this page I have a button with a link (the email one generated by PayPal) to my PayPal payment page. I have setup the PayPal PDT Identity Token in the WP Affiliate settings and would like to know if the payment will be tracked from this page. Basically in the example at the beginning of this thread it said given the example to send an visitor to a video hosted elsewhere and then directed back to the WP page to take payment, so my question is whether the visitor would need to be redirected back to the WP site or if the payment would be tracked if it was also taken on the external site. Sorry for the long winded explanation and hope this made sense. Many Thanks Ricky admin on "Customizing the Affiliate Signup Page/Form" http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/customizing-the-affiliate-signup-pageform#post-24139 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:41:08 +0000 admin 24139@http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/ You can customize any text or message displayed to your visitors using the following method: <a href="http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-customize-various-textmessages-displayed-by-the-plugin" rel="nofollow">http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/how-to-customize-various-textmessages-displayed-by-the-plugin</a> Remove a Particular Form Field 1. If you are using the on page affiliate view option ----------------------------------------------------- Open the "register_view.php" file from the "view" directory of the affiliate plugin and customize it however you like. For example, If you want to remove the "Fax" field from the affiliate signup page then find the following block of code and remove it: <pre><code><tr> <td><?php echo AFF_FAX; ?>:</td> <td> <input type="text" name="afax" size="20" value="<?php echo $_POST['afax']; ?>"> </td> </tr></code></pre> 2. If you are using the stand alone affiliate view option ------------------------------------------------------- Open the "register.php" file from the "affiliates" directory of the affiliate plugin and customize it however you like For example, If you want to remove the "Fax" field from the affiliate signup page then find the following block of code and remove it: <pre><code><tr> <td><?php echo AFF_FAX; ?>:</td> <td> <input type="text" name="afax" size=20 value="<?php echo $_POST['afax']; ?>"> </td> </tr></code></pre>