New ClickBank WordPress plugin prerelease

Posted on December 22, 2007 | Filed Under WordPress

This is the new WordPress plugin for ClickBank users. It allows you to mask or cloak your affiliate links to prevent link hijacking. This is the “prerelease” in that I wanted to get it out and posted, but I haven’t completed the readme file (and a Quick Start Guide). There is a section within the plugin file itself that provides installation and usage instructions. When I finish the additional documentation, that will be added and I’ll update this post.

(If you’re a bot or scraper, or otherwise one of those people that likes to download plugins to provide on your site, don’t waste your time linking to the following file, it will not be the final link when the final release is published.)

Download affiliatecloak.zip

Here are the installation and usage instructions that are included in the file:

INSTALLATION:

Copy this file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Go to the Plugins tab in your WP admin panel
Find “Affiliate Cloaking Device” and click “Activate”

USAGE:

Go to the “Options” tab in your WP admin panel and select the ClickBank subtab
After initial install, you will need to add your affiliate ID
Determine if you want links to open in a new window or not and set appropriately
Add ClickBank program(s) to your list
Once you have at least one program added to the list, you can cloak links in your posts
To add a cloaked link, add the following to your post:
[text-that-is-displayed|program ID #]
If you wanted the link to read “Learn to make money blogging” and the program ID
from your list was 5, you would type the following in the WP visual editor:
[Learn-to-make-money-blogging|5]
Note: be sure to include the brackets!!
If you have a long list of programs, or forgot the id number for a specific program, don’t worry, there is a dropdown list added just below the WP visual editor for writing and editing both posts (currently, this feature shows only in posts, not pages. However, the cloaking device works and may be used in pages, you just can’t see this helper list in the editing area).

Comments

10 Responses to “New ClickBank WordPress plugin prerelease”

Blog Opinion on December 30th, 2007 10:49 am

Hey Thanks for new clickbank. I will use it, let you know about it.
mark on January 9th, 2008 4:40 pm

I really like your site is this done with Plig?

Also investigating the whole making money with clickbank tools.

Good Luck
JD on January 15th, 2008 12:23 pm

Cool Plugin!

Unfortunately I keep getting an error when I try to add CB programs to it? Is it an ID number for the program, the name in the link, or the whole link you are supposed to add?

Thanks very much
michael on July 19th, 2008 8:19 am

hey, great ide to create this plugin, i will donate you some money when first understand in witch format the clickbank name or id should bee??

best regards michael
WP Plugin Archive » Affiliate Cloaking Device on August 14th, 2008 2:58 am

[...] Affiliate Cloaking Device Plugin von Chad Butler ermöglicht es ClickBank Affilate Links zu maskieren, so dass diese nicht [...]
Inetmillions on November 26th, 2008 7:07 pm

Any new update on this one?
Wordpress Themes | Neumarkt | Bayern on January 24th, 2009 6:07 am

[...] Affiliate-Links maskieren mit dem WordPress Plugin Affiliatecloak. [...]
saneeth on April 24th, 2009 1:02 am

i also get error message while adding program
Caramoantour on December 27th, 2009 11:33 pm

i tried Clickbank for a couply of months but my website does not have enough US and UK traffic so i did not earn that much.
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Jeamm on February 12th, 2010 2:27 am

i am using both Clickbank and infolinks ads on my website. Clicbank generates more money than infolinks but your website should be getting lots of us traffic.