Wanting to protect your affiliate registration page from potential bots signup? Why not enable the reCAPTCHA feature. What is reCAPTCHA? "Easy on Humans, Hard on Bots" reCAPTCHA is a free service offered by Google. It is used globally on sites where a form or call to action button will be submitted. Implementing reCAPTCHA ensures that only 'real humans' can submit a form. This protects your site from being mass spammed by bots. The reCAPTCHA can be easily answered by a human with the click of a … [Read more...]
How to Manually Approve Affiliates on Your Site
The WP Affiliate plugin has a feature that allows you to manually approve your members. Step 1) Enable the Settings Option Go to the settings menu of the affiliate plugin and enable the Manually Approve Affiliate Registration option. Now, all the affiliate that signup will have an account status of "pending" so they cannot log into the affiliate portal. Step 2) Update the Email Settings Update the "Affiliate Signup Email" section to say something like the following in the email body (so the … [Read more...]
WordPress Affiliate Platform Features
Below is a list of the main features of the WP Affiliate Platform. Installation, Usage and Management Easy to install and use No limit on how many affiliates you can have Recurring Commissions - For subscription payments via PayPal Individual Commissions - You can set different commission levels for different affiliates Simple banner and text link management Two tier affiliate structure Edit or Remove Affiliates View your affiliate details, commission level, account status … [Read more...]