Wanting to protect your affiliate registration page from potential bots signup? Why not enable the reCAPTCHA feature. What is reCAPTCHA? "Easy on Humans, Hard on Bots" reCAPTCHA is a free service offered by Google. It is used globally on sites where a form or call to action button will be submitted. Implementing reCAPTCHA ensures that only 'real humans' can submit a form. This protects your site from being mass spammed by bots. The reCAPTCHA can be easily answered by a human with the click of a … [Read more...]
How to Manually Approve Affiliates on Your Site
The WP Affiliate plugin has a feature that allows you to manually approve your members. Step 1) Enable the Settings Option Go to the settings menu of the affiliate plugin and enable the Manually Approve Affiliate Registration option. Now, all the affiliate that signup will have an account status of "pending" so they cannot log into the affiliate portal. Step 2) Update the Email Settings Update the "Affiliate Signup Email" section to say something like the following in the email body (so the … [Read more...]
Show Affiliate Leaderboard
You can embed an affiliate leaderboard on your site to show the top performing affiliates of your site. Use the following shortcode to show a leaderboard widget like the above example: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard] You can also specify how many top affiliates to show. Example shortcode usage below: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard number="5"] You can also show an affiliate leader-board based on the number of affiliate clicks. Example shortocde usage below: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard … [Read more...]
Adding an Affiliate Login Widget to Your Site’s Sidebar
After you have setup the affiliate area, you need to show your visitors where they can go and do the affiliate program related tasks. Normally, you would just add a navigation menu/link on your site that points to the affiliate area of your site (see example below). Visitors can click on this link/menu item to go to the affiliate area and do the following: New visitors can signup for an affiliate account Existing affiliates can log into their affiliate dashboard The … [Read more...]
Setting Up the Affiliate View/Area/Portal
The affiliate portal, view or area refers to the section of your site where potential affiliates can sign up for an affiliate account and log into their accounts to get affiliate code so they can promote your products or services. Your affiliates can also view all the referral stats (clicks, sales, payouts etc) from the affiliate portal. There are a few ways you can setup the affiliate view/area/portal when using the the Affiliate Platform plugin (choose the one that best suits your design … [Read more...]
How to Customize the Appearance of the Affiliate View Using CSS
This document outlines some tips on how to change the look and feel of the WP affiliate platform affiliate view by tweaking some CSS. When you install the plugin, it should have created one of the on-page affiliate area using a shortcode approach. The different options for it are explained on this page. So you can try them to see if one options work better than the other (given the theme you are using). Inserting CSS Code Tweaks to Your site You can add CSS tweaks to your site … [Read more...]