Adding an Affiliate Login Widget to Your Site’s Sidebar

After you have setup the affiliate area, you need to show your visitors where they can go and do the affiliate program related tasks.

Normally, you would just add a navigation menu/link on your site that points to the affiliate area of your site (see example below).

Visitors can click on this link/menu item to go to the affiliate area and do the following:

• New visitors can signup for an affiliate account
• Existing affiliates can log into their affiliate dashboard

The following demo page has examples of how the different affiliate portal styles looks like (if you haven’t setup the affiliate area on your site already then check this documentation):

• Affiliate Portal Demo

How Does the Login Widget Look Like?

The affiliate login widget looks like the following:

Adding Login Widget For the Standard/Default Affiliate Area

If you are using the standard/default affiliate area (option 1) then do the following to add a login widget to the sidebar:

Step 1) Go to the “Widgets” menu of your WordPress dashboard
Step 2) Add a standard WordPress “Text” widget to the sidebar
Step 3) Add the following shortcode inside this text widget and you are done
[wp_aff_login]

Adding Login Widget For the On Page Affiliate Area

If you are using the on page affiliate area (option 2) then do the following to add a login widget to the sidebar:

Step 1) Go to the “Widgets” menu of your WordPress dashboard
Step 2) Add a standard WordPress “Text” widget to the sidebar
Step 3) Add the following shortcode inside this text widget
[wp_aff_login_onpage_version url="http://www.your-domain.com/your-affiliate-page"]

You will need to add the correct URL to your WordPress page in the “url” parameter above.

You can use the above mentioned shortcodes anywhere on your site (posts, pages etc) to place a login widget.