So you have a plugin’s Subversion repository hosted on WordPress.org and want to use GitHub to coordinate your development efforts. Let’s have a look at how we can set this up. (more…)
New Affiliate Plugin for WordPress
The new Affiliate plugin helps Affiliate Marketers to include marketing resources on their WordPress sites. Included in this toolbox is an automatic keyword linker, a feature that substitutes occurrences of keywords you define with your related affiliate links. Let’s assume for example that you help to promote a new book called The Foo of Cooking. […]
New Gravity Forms Integrations
Affiliates Gravity Forms This extension allows to record referrals for form submissions and to create affiliate accounts for new users based on Gravity Forms. Let new users sign up as affiliates when they register through a user registration form handled by Gravity Forms’ User Registration Add-On. Grant commissions based on form submissions and synchronize with […]
Restricting access to comments in WordPress
Sometimes there is the need to restrict who can post or read comments on a site. Here is an easy answer to questions like … How can I limit who is allowed to post a comment? How can I restrict who is allowed to read comments? If you need to limit product reviews to customers […]
New features for the Affiliates plugins
The Affiliates plugins have been updated with a few interesting features. Besides making sure that all works smoothly with the currently latest WordPress 3.8, there are a few important and useful additions. The latest versions 2.5.0 of the Affiliates, Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise plugins now feature: Commission totals are shown for each affiliate in […]
Documentation
… a documentation management system The new Documentation plugin is intended to provide sound basic structures for a documentation management system. Leveraging WordPress’ framework and internal structures, the system provides a completely new section to manage documents independently from normal posts or pages. Documents are complemented by their dedicated document categories and document tags, which […]
Time brings new Plugins
Time is an illusion we maintain and use as a framework to get a grip on change. Why mention that? Apart from its really really deep implications, it’s been a while since I’ve posted an ‘official’ entry on the blog here. Much has happened since the last one, so here’s an update – I surely […]
Updates and new Affiliates extensions
The new 2.4 releases of the Affiliates plugins bring several improvements and fixes, including better filter sections, improved notifications in Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise, along with new options and views for tiers in the Enterprise release. The Enterprise package now also includes Affiliates MS which allows to run a centralized affiliate system on a […]
New Ready! Ecommerce Integration
The Ready! Ecommerce plugin seems to be getting popular and it was quite easy to integrate it with the Affiliates plugin. If you’re interested in an affiliate solution for your shop based on Ready!, you can give it a try: Affiliates Ready Light is a free solution that works with all versions of the Affiliates […]
A free affiliate program for Ecwid
Ecwid is offering a really cool and easy to handle shopping cart that you can set up within a few minutes. Their system allows you to deploy a fully featured e-commerce solution within a single HTML page. It doesn’t get easier than that! The premium integration with Affiliates Pro for WordPress and Ecwid has been […]
Groups Forums Performance
Groups Forums claims to be a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites. Ok, the plugin is rather innocent regarding these claims, it’s me who thinks it does quite well 😉 Let’s see how it performs compared to bbPress and Simple:Press. Just to be clear, this post and the results exposed are intended […]
How to hide the WooCommerce Shop page
I’ve been asked if it is possible to hide the WooCommerce Shop page based on Groups’ access restrictions. As it is, trying to apply the normal way (checking a capability in the Access restrictions of the page) simply doesn’t work. So what does work? Here’s an example: (more…)
New Groups Extensions
Groups Forums – Provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites. Groups Jigoshop is a WordPress plugin that allows to sell memberships and subscriptions with Groups and Jigoshop. Groups 404 Redirect – This plugin redirects 404’s caused by hits on pages that are protected by Groups.
New extensions for Affiliates (Ho ho ho)
December is here at last! And a good bunch of new extensions for the Affiliates plugins brings useful tools to shop owners, so that your Xmas sales can get a pretty boost thanks to your business partners. Talking about a bunch, after so many requests for a generic multi-tier solution have been received, Affiliates Enterprise […]