086 – How to Handle Affiliate Links within WordPress

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Thiago B.
Greetings from Brazil! Awesome podcast, I dont miss one, one plugin recommendation question: I need a plugin for support ticket system on my website, this is for my customers to register tickets whenever they face or find issues with their websites, I need a plugin that will allow people to post pictures or documents like pdf or doc files, it will serve also for my customers to send stuff whenever they want their websites updated. Do you know anything at these lines?

Option #1:

WPSC Support Tickets is no longer available.

Option #2:

The form on my website is the premium gravity forms plugin. You could probably create an online form like my contact form with Gravity Forms to get information from each client, but Gravity Forms doesn’t have a good way to mark tickets as completed.

How to Handle Affiliate Links within WordPress

Radi
What do you use for your affiliates? What software, website, WP plugins…

Option #1: Pretty Link

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/

Option #2: Text Expander

smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/

Option #3: Custom Code

Add the following code to your functions.php file. Change the text to reflect your affiliate links.

function replace_text_wps($text){
    $replace = array(
        // 'WORD TO REPLACE' => 'REPLACE WORD WITH THIS'
        'thesis' => 'thesis',
        'studiopress' => 'studiopress'
    );
    $text = str_replace(array_keys($replace), $replace, $text);
    return $text;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'replace_text_wps');
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'replace_text_wps');

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