Affiliates by Username

Usernames in Affiliate Links

This WordPress plugin is an extension to the Affiliates plugins and allows affiliate links to indicate usernames in addition to the affiliate IDs used normally.

The plugin provides the [affiliates_by_username] shortcode that converts affiliate links by substituting the affiliate ID with the username.

See the plugin’s documentation pages Affiliates by Username for more details.

To obtain the plugin go here Affiliates by Username.

65 Responses to Affiliates by Username

  1. James October 20, 2023 at 3:04 pm #

    Hello,
    Sorry if the question has already been asked, I bought and installed the username plugin.
    I just want to show the username link in the dashboard after the ref id :
    https://ibb.co/JQ7cf8g
    Can you please help me do that ?
    Thank you,
    Best Regards,
    James

    • Kento October 20, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

      Hi James,

      I can’t find your order related to the email indicated, can you please post your support request on https://www.itthinx.com/forum/affiliates-by-username/ or indicate your order number so our team can follow up?

      Cheers

      • Romain Cimenta October 21, 2023 at 6:45 am #

        Hello, this is my order number, Order #33458, James is my partner.
        Thank you for the support,
        Best Regards,
        Romain & James

        • Kento October 24, 2023 at 9:41 am #

          Thank you very much, our team will help you further via the topic created for this.

          Cheers!

  2. andrian kolev February 21, 2021 at 10:56 pm #

    So i got the plugin but cant figure out how to change those to show as user link and not ID

    https://ibb.co/BtXyFYj

    one in the dashboard as well:
    https://ibb.co/pnQ6xMb

  3. ajismule February 21, 2019 at 11:02 am #

    Hi,

    I have installed Affiliates by Userbane and put the shortcode.
    But in the WP Admin Menu of Manage Affiliates, the affilite code still number, not user name.
    How to change that (in WP Admin Menu: Manage Affiliate)

    Regards

    • ajismule February 23, 2019 at 5:07 am #

      Hi SOLVED.

      I see in Affiliates Referrals. Thank you

      Regards

      • Kento February 25, 2019 at 9:09 am #

        Great, thanks for following up!

  4. Steven December 2, 2015 at 7:30 am #

    Hello Antonio,

    First off, amazing plug-in and I appreciate your assistance. I currently have the Affiliates by Username plugin and currently have a small problem.

    I’m trying to display JUST the username without any URL. I’ve tried..

    [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_url][/affiliates_by_username]

    But it will still display the username as an ID (A number "2").

    Is it possible to display JUST the username?

    And perhaps the Fist Name, Last Name, Address as a text field?

    Thanks,

    Steven

    • antonio December 3, 2015 at 9:22 am #

      Hi Steven,
      if you want to display affiliate’s info as lineal text, maybe this plugin can help you, ex. [aff-show-attributes show_name="true" /]
      Please for support question use the forums.
      Kind Regards,
      Antonio B.

  5. Khalil September 27, 2015 at 3:17 pm #

    Hello, I read several of the replies above so its clearer but not fully clear to me. What I need to do is provide affiliate links to specific products to my affiliates ( I have the enterprise version) but am unsure of the best way to do that, especially when there are many products.Can you briefly outline the steps needed for that- ie setting that must be changed and any shortcodes that must be entered. Thanks.

    • antonio September 28, 2015 at 6:40 am #

      Hi khalil,
      you can use the [affiliates_affiliate_link] shortcode using the ‘url’ parameter.
      Kind Regards,
      Antonio B.

  6. Asha July 17, 2015 at 5:49 am #

    Hi,
    I need to add affilate URL with affiliate username instead of affiliate Id in notifications(emails).I tried to add the shortcode like
    [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username] but didi not work Can You please help me asap. i have pro plugin and affilate by username plugin

    • antonio July 17, 2015 at 2:39 pm #

      Hi Asha,
      ‘pretty’ attribute is deprecated. You can not use shortcode in notifications by default, you can use the tokens predefined or create your own tokens.
      In your case, you can use for example: www.yourdomain.com/?affiliates=[affiliate_name]
      Regards,
      Antonio B.

  7. Bo April 11, 2015 at 3:49 pm #

    Fantastic to find out about the Pretty Link!!
    [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_url type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]
    I was looking to use Pretty Link Pro as I didn’t know this was an option.
    However, I do have a customization question.

    What would be the best approach to have a Affiliate URL parameter name change based on Group?
    Obviously this will take a bit of custom development, so hoping you can help me point the developer in the right direction.

    Example:
    Affiliate – John in group Player
    url.com/player/john
    Affiliate – Firebird in group Team
    url.com/team/firebird

    • antonio April 13, 2015 at 8:06 am #

      Hi Bo,
      sorry, pretty links are no longer supported.
      Regards,
      Antonio B.

  8. Doug October 14, 2014 at 11:08 pm #

    I’m having issues with this plugin. When I use the affiliate URL ?affiliate=4 it works. When I use ?affiliate=user I get the following:
    ————————-
    No Results Found

    The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
    ————————-

    Any ideas why this might be happening

  9. Alexey August 25, 2014 at 2:41 pm #

    Ok, thank you, but the day I purchased the plugin,
    this feature was declared in the product description.
    I request refund money to my paypal account !

    • kento August 26, 2014 at 10:16 am #

      Hi Alexey, sure, sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for pointing it out. We’ve updated the description so that the outdated info isn’t shown anymore. Cheers

  10. Alexey August 25, 2014 at 10:38 am #

    Hi, please help me.
    Urls with user names generated, all is well in this part:
    ===
    Your pretty URL:
    http://www.mysite.com/affiliates/username.
    ===

    But… these links go to the page ‘Error 404 – Page not found!’.
    So my question is:
    Should I make any changes in my .htaccess file,
    which will redirect /affiliates/ to an existing page, i.e. home page,
    or the plugin should do all things itself, and I’m doing something wrong or missed something?

    Thank you
    Alexey.

  11. Ciro Torelli July 7, 2014 at 1:35 pm #

    Hello, I would buy this plugin to make use of it on m I site and create referrals for new members or members.
    I tried the lite version, the one with the numeric referall but I noticed that every new subscriber also not indicated if it follows the referall is then placed or referred to that in writing.
    If the problem was caused only by the lite version and this version instead if it works well then I would be grateful to receive confirmation so as to proceed with the purchase.
    Thank you

    • kento July 7, 2014 at 3:44 pm #

      Hi, can you please explain what exactly you’re trying to achieve? I’m sorry but I don’t quite understand what you’re asking.

      • Gianni July 7, 2014 at 5:20 pm #

        Hi, we bought this plugin, but we realized that in reality it is just an extension of other plugins so can not be used alone.
        We currently have installed a version of the affiliate program vs. “The Affiliates plugin Provides the right tools to ‘maintain a referral partner program. Version 2.7.1” but we realized that nothing changes, the referal is always numeric.
        What should I buy further to run this plugin?
        We are interested in a referral program that allows us to enter the name and id of the new member, we can help you?
        Thank you

  12. Greg January 31, 2014 at 5:29 pm #

    I am having the same issue as the previous comment.

    I installed the Affiliates by Username plugin, but when I visit the new URL it doesn’t work.

    Works: http://www.example.com/?affiliates=2

    Doesn’t work (404 error): http://www.example.com/affiliates/2

    Doesn’t work (404 error): http://www.example.com/affiliates/username

    The above should work, regardless of how I choose to display the URL in the affiliates area. The username URL should work when I open it in a separate browser, but it doesn’t. It gives a 404 error.

    I am using the latest version of WP and the plugins.

    • kento February 1, 2014 at 12:41 pm #

      Please open a topic for this in this forum and provide a URL to your site’s affiliate area so we can register a test account. If needed, we’ll ask you to provide admin access to the site.

  13. abdelmoumen January 10, 2014 at 11:06 pm #

    Hi Kento
    In my admin on the test account affiliate there is 2 links

    Link: http://www.babelbag.com?affiliates=9
    Pretty: http://www.babelbag.com/affiliates/9

    the first one classical works and the second on pretty go to a 404 error page

    And when you go on the page affiliate area when you want to see your link url you can see that it not works.

    Regards

    • kento January 17, 2014 at 9:39 am #

      Hi,

      The shortcode you are using there does not allow type="pretty", the rest works fine.

  14. aredha January 9, 2014 at 11:20 pm #

    Hello Kento

    “We’ve created a test account via the affiliate area on your site and it works fine.”
    Sorry I see no test page on my admin do you have the access ?
    regards
    It’s urgent please

    • kento January 10, 2014 at 5:59 pm #

      Hi,

      Not a test page, a test affiliate account. If you check your affiliates you will see one we have registered.

      Please post a topic for further help if needed.

  15. Nakia December 13, 2013 at 5:34 pm #

    Sorry Antonio, This still did not work. Please see

    http://myvideolibrary.com/affiliate-area/

    • antonio December 13, 2013 at 6:37 pm #

      Hi,
      please send us dashboard admin access to support at itthin dot com and we’ll have a look.
      cheers

    • antonio December 13, 2013 at 7:15 pm #

      Hi,
      to uses this advanced shortcodes you need Affiliates Pro or Enterprise.
      You can use [affiliates_id], for example:

      [affiliates_by_username]www.mydomain.com/affiliates/[affiliates_id][/affiliates_by_username]

      cheers

  16. Nakia December 12, 2013 at 6:13 pm #

    http://pastebin.com/WqZ2J54Z

  17. Nakia December 12, 2013 at 2:08 pm #

    That did not work

    • antonio December 12, 2013 at 4:55 pm #

      Please use pastebin.com to show us the code you are using.

  18. aredha December 12, 2013 at 12:16 am #

    Hello

    Please help me
    I have try the 2 shortcodes on affiliate page

    [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_url type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]

    [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]

    And this is what Isee on the web page

    http://www.babelbag.com?affiliates=admin
    [affiliates_affiliate_link type="pretty"]
    regrds

    • antonio December 12, 2013 at 5:09 pm #

      Hi,
      please try creating a test page, and paste this code:

      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_url type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]
      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]

      cheers

    • kento January 9, 2014 at 9:44 pm #

      We’ve created a test account via the affiliate area on your site and it works fine. The username affiliate link works as expected and is visible to the affiliate in the affiliate area.

      If you need further help please create a new topic.

  19. Nakia December 10, 2013 at 5:54 pm #

    My affiliate area is http://myvideolibrary.com/affiliate-area/

    however we have no idea how to get the username plugin to work.

    How can our affiliate e.g. my test account ‘mykel321’ as in http://myvideolibrary.com?affiliates=5 changed to http://myvideolibrary.com/affiliates/mykel321. How would I use my user name. When I am logged in in the created area this is what I see:

    Affiliate Area
    Welcome to your affiliate area. Here you can find information about your affiliate link and earnings.

    Affiliate link
    Your affiliate URL:

    [/affiliates_by_username]

    Use this code to embed your affiliate link:

    Affiliate link

    Tip: You should change the text Affiliate link to something more attractive.

    • antonio December 11, 2013 at 9:14 am #

      Hi,
      you can use:
      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_url type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]
      or/and
      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]
      in your “affiliate-area” page.
      cheers

  20. Nakia December 9, 2013 at 2:48 pm #

    Antonio? Can I get some assistance. We want to go live with the affilliate

    • antonio December 9, 2013 at 4:10 pm #

      Yes, What do you need exactly?

  21. Saskia December 8, 2013 at 12:03 pm #

    Hi Just set up SSL on my webserver.

    I’d like to have the affiliates area be secured as well. It works without problems, except for the forms. When the user entered data and kl´´´hits the submit buttons either on the login or on the registration submit button he gets wanred that this is not a secure form.

    I’d like to change the form action link, but I don’t know where.

    Please assist.

    thanks in advance
    sas

    • antonio December 9, 2013 at 9:16 am #

      Hi,
      you have available the registration form code on affiliates-pro/lib/core/class-affiliates-registration.php (line 318). The login form uses the wordpress login form (available on affiliates/pro/lib/core/class-affiliates-shortcodes.php line 493)
      cheers

  22. Nakia December 7, 2013 at 11:32 pm #

    Just purchased this plugin, but lost as to how to change a test affiliate I created. Can someone help me

    • antonio December 8, 2013 at 8:51 am #

      Hi, What do you need exactly?

  23. Moonworks October 15, 2013 at 12:46 pm #

    I’ve managed to get most of my links changed without a problem, but can’t figure out how to get a specific page to show the username.

    I’ve tried to just place the username shortcode around the previous version, but it doesn’t help:

    Angel Wing Ring

    Causes it to look like this:

    Angel Wing Ring

    • Moonworks October 15, 2013 at 12:48 pm #

      ah, that didn’t work.

      I’ve tried this, but with no luck:

      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_id][/affiliates_by_username]

      But it still gives the number instead of the username.

      • antonio October 15, 2013 at 5:12 pm #

        Hi,
        you can use for example:
        [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link url="http://www.example.com/products/" /][/affiliates_by_username]

        • Moonworks October 15, 2013 at 7:39 pm #

          Thanks, that did the job 🙂

  24. jcal168 March 20, 2013 at 8:17 pm #

    I need help how can i change the username and provide me specific instruction: i want to have this kind of format: http://redmobileworld.com/jcal168

    • antonio March 21, 2013 at 8:11 am #

      Hi,
      For generate the pretty link, you have more info: http://www.itthinx.com/plugins/affiliates/#comment-7056

      You must have a “Affiliate URL parameter name”, it can’t be empty, because it can cause errors, for example, if a username is “hello”, and you have a page called “hello”, both are in conflict.
      You can change the “Affiliate URL parameter name” in Affiliates->Options.

      cheers.

  25. Liz March 9, 2013 at 3:08 pm #

    Is there a way to shorten the affiliates link?

    For example: If the link is http://www.example.com/?affiliates=billy

    The shortened link would be http://www.example.com/billy or http://billy.example.com

    Looking for ways to help affiliates promote their website in printed materials, needs to be shortened so visitors can type the url and avoid mistakes.

    Thanks!

    • kento March 9, 2013 at 9:17 pm #

      Hi Liz,

      Yes, you can adjust it in Affiliates > Options, not exactly as you suggest, but you can use a short URL parameter like for example an r, then the links would look like for example http://www.example.com?r=123.

      Cheers

  26. carbbon February 2, 2013 at 9:01 pm #

    Great stuff and excited to start seeing some affiliate traffic to our site http://XTWorkoutroutines.com

    I have correctly installed “Affiliates by Username” plugin.
    When visiting the Affiliate Area (http://xtworkoutroutines.com/affiliate-area/) I do not see a link option with “username”. Is that something I need to explain to my affiliates or is there a setting I have overlooked that will show all the linking options in the affiliate area. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

    • kento February 5, 2013 at 8:33 pm #

      The plugin provides the [affiliates_by_username] shortcode that converts affiliate links by substituting the affiliate ID with the username, examples:

      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_url][/affiliates_by_username]
      [affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link][/affiliates_by_username]

      In the affiliate area you currently have, you can use the above to convert from the ID format to the username format 🙂

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