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Affiliates – Installation
1. Upload or extract the affiliates folder to your site’s /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Or you could use the Add new option found in the Plugins menu in WordPress.
2. Enable the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress.
3. A new Affiliates menu will appear in WordPress, this is where you manage your affiliates and keep track of visits and referrals.
4. Go to Affiliates > Options and click the Generate button. This will add a new page to your site with a default Affiliate Area[1] that you can then edit if needed.
5. Now you can let your affiliates sign up directly from the Affiliate Area or start adding affiliates manually and provide them with affiliate links to your site.
The default options should be suitable for many, but there are some options you might want to consider before you really start. Please read the Affiliates Documentation for additional information.
[1] To allow visitors to sign up, you need to allow them to register on your site. Otherwise you will see a message saying Registration is currently closed. Go to Settings > General, tick the checkbox close to Membership that says Anyone can register and hit Save Changes.
I’m still trying to figure out how to set up what their URL will be – where do we set that up? It’s so confusing. You have “Direct” set up, and that goes to “affiliate=1″…so if I add another affiliate, do they end up with the URL “affiliate=2″? or can I not set it up to be customized?
It’s really easy!
Go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates, click on Add, fill in the affiliate’s data and click on Submit changes. Now a new entry will appear showing the Affiliate link and the Affiliate permalink, suppose it’s http://www.example.com/affiliates/123. Your new affiliate can use that link for banners etc.
Customizing: mod_rewrite could come in handy … you can make your new affiliate’s link look like e.g. http://www.example.com/my-great-link-foobar and mod_rewrite it to http://www.example.com/affiliates/123 … another option is for someone to commission this feature to be built-in
I cannot click the Add link. Nothing happen or appear. What is the problem?
1 more thing can we have an affiliate registration page for user who interest to join the affiliate program?
You should not have any problem at all adding new affiliates, so let’s figure out what happens. Please post details about your environment, including WP, PHP and MySQL versions, other plugins you have enabled and possible errors you get (set
define('WP_DEBUG', true);in wp-config.php).Regarding affiliates registration, this has been requested more than once and if there is enough interest and probably financial support for this feature, we might have this in the next release. Sponsors are welcome.
Absolutely. I’d love to see a way for affiliates to register themselves.
Yeah it’ll probably get into the next release
doesn’t work at all. same issue as Saiful Bahri
Alex it’s hard to help without any information about your environment. Please read the main entry and comments here: http://www.itthinx.com/plugins/affiliates/ as well as this entry: http://www.itthinx.com/plugins/affiliates/affiliates-videos/
If you still have problems after that, feel free to post details about your installation.
When I click on manage affiliates/edit there is no Affiliate Attributes or New Attribute.
Also Setting referral rates or commissions is imposible.
can you guide me a little.
Do I have to buy the pro version in order to have these features also?
Yes, these features are available in Pro/Enterprise.
Hi, I try to install this on the newest wordpress and nothing appears on my menu? No Affiliates option?
If you have activated it, you will see an Affiliates section in your admin sidebar.
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/5641/pluginsmo.png
Same thing with no other plugins
OK, the option just randomly appeared
!
Randomly? Do you mean you did not change anything and it just showed up? That’s odd …
Yup, it’s odd. Working great now though
Why to Buy Enterprise and not Pro?
what are the differences between Enterprise and Pro?
Have a look at this comment. Enterprise usually involves consulting and customized features. If you’re interested in an Enterprise deployment please email me with your requirements. Enterprise also grants you Sponsor status with additional exposure and preferential support.
Hi
Installed your plug and activated… love the idea and not sure about the installation now. http://kristinefry.com/affiliate-area/ on that page it reads that Registration Is Currently Closed? Is there something I am missing in settings?
Thanks
Chris
Hi Chris,
You need to go to Settings > General, tick the checkbox close to Membership that says Anyone can register, save the changes and the registration form will appear on your page
Continue to see this message
“Updating the Affiliates core FAILED.”
I installed this on a my WP network with multi-site but this message appears on dashboard of all sites except the main site.
Example: http://mysite.com is ok but http://mysite.com/subsite is not
What versions are you running (WP & Affiliates)?
I am running WP 3.3.1 Affiliates 1.3.6
I am getting the same error “Updating the Affiliates core FAILED”. WP 3.3.1, Affiliates Pro core 1.1.10, ext 1.3.8. Not sure if it’s related but I haven’t been able to add members to the program yet.
Looks like when I installed the plugin no database tables were created.
Thanks Franco, you will receive an updated version that fixes the issues.
Here’s the solution which might help someone with a similar situation. The problem here was that in
wp-config.phpthe charset was set todefine('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8_unicode_ci');but the database was using utf8. When the plugin was trying to create its tables,WordPress database error Unknown character set: 'utf8_unicode_ci' for query CREATE TABLE ...errors were thrown and the tables were not created. Changing the charset inwp-config.phptodefine('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');then deactiving and reactiving the plugin would create the tables and solve the issues.