Affiliates

INACTIVE NOTICE: This plugin is unsupported by WPMUDEV, we’ve published it here for those technical types who might want to fork and maintain it for their needs.

Affiliates boosts business by making all your users a part of your marketing team.

Integrated or Stand-Alone

WordPress Affiliate integrates perfectly with our Marketpress, Pro Sites, Directory and Membership plugins, and allows you to offer your visitors a share in the profits by promoting your site.

Incredibly simple to connect through PayPal.

Any User Can Do It

Use Affiliate with any regular WordPress, BuddyPress or Multisite installation – or adapt it to other payment gateways with ease. This plugin allows any user registered at your site to simply become and affiliate by filling in their PayPal email.

They are then given a link they can then use to promote the site. All of the unique clicks they attract, standard sign-ups and paid sign-ups are then tracked by the plugin and displayed – nicely – to the user and yourself.

Paid Sign Ups

As mentioned, it integrates 100% with Membership & Pro-Sites so that when a free user decides to become a paid member your affiliate gets a piece of the action. Track sales with powerful graphs and stats to see who your top performers are.

Activate banners for easy referral sharing.

Not to mention the ability to simply (again, no code required) give your affiliates their own banners. Allow users to use regular old links which you can track via referral marking so no one ever knows they are an affiliate.

Track stats with big beautiful graphs.

Bonus Ad Management System

This plugin also functions as an ad management system to help you track the effectiveness of your advertising with all of the same reports as you receive for affiliates. You can use it for one or the other or both ads and affiliates in combination, without having to make any hacks.

In the case of an affiliate, you’re looking to see X number of referrals and Y number of paid signups. When using it as an ad management system, you can easily track the same information for the ads you’re placing. Simply enter a fake PayPal email address that identifies the type and location of you’re placing, and you’re set to go.

Usage

To Get Started:

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

• On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
• For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it blog-by-blog (say if you wanted to make it a Pro Sites premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins andNetwork Activate the plugin.

Once installed and activated, you will see a new menu item in your admin: Affiliates.

Let’s configure some settings, click on Affiliates > Settings.

Affiliate Settings

Here you will see a full page of options, let’s go through them section by section.

Affiliate Link URL

Enter the Link URL that will be provided to affiliates for referral links. The plugin will automatically take care of appending their referral ID to the url.