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11th December 2010 (1 year ago)
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Hiya Nick,
Unfortunately the plugin won't work in both locations at the same time. It's really designed to be used once per install - either mutlisite or a regular wordpress install. You could try putting it in the regular plugins folder and then activating it on two individual blogs, but I don't believe it'd give you the results you're looking for.
I'll ask Barry (lead developer for this plugin) if he has a suggestion for what you're trying to do though.
Yes, please ask him, because we really need an affiliate script for both. (Sorta like the Google Analytics plugin which provides for both sitewide and individual blog analytics.)
I wonder if going through all the files and changing any reference to affiliate to something else and all the file names would essentially create a "second" affiliate plugin? Saw somebody say they did this with the membership plugin.
@Terran - It'd be a *lot* of work as you'd need to change everywhere the plugin access cookies, and user_meta - you'd need to update supporter as well as otherwise it will be sending payments to the changed version of the plugin as well.
You may as well write a new plugin, rather than try to change the existing one.
@nickd32
I'm using the Affiliate plugin with Supporter to track Signups sitewide (or network-wide, rather).
By this it sounds like you are tracking links to sub-blogs already, not sure of the way you would have that working with supporter? maybe i'm getting things confused, but wouldn't you be signing people up with supporter only on the main blog? so you'd only need to track links to that one blog, then you could enable the affiliate plugin on other sites / blogs individually.
@Barry - I have the affiliate plugin installed in /mu-plugins/, which is what the directions originally said for WPMU installs.
That was to allow any individual blog owners (or sub-blogs, as you call them) to refer people to sign up for a blog as well. I'm just using the default setup. That plugins tracks whenever people upgrade to supporter.
But now, I've got a few users who want affiliate scripts on their (sub) blogs integrated with Membership (or even MarketPress), so I'm trying to find the best way to handle that.
Are you suggesting that I can remove the affiliate plugin from /mu-plugins/ and still use it in /plugins/ on the main site to track supporter signups sitewide?
I have the same request from some sub-blog owners who want to run an affiliate program on their sub-blog.
It would be great to have a version of the Affiliates plugin that was designed for site by site activation.
Then the super admin site owner could activate it on the main site and any sub users who want to run an affiliate program could activate it on their sub-sites.
@Barry - can you comment? Should we put the affiliate plugin in /plugins/ and activate it on the main blog in order to track supporter signups sitewide?
I'm thinking of setting up a separate (different) membership plugin and affiliate plugin that can be used for Supporter subblogs.
Not sure how affiliate plugins work so obviously not easy to tell off hand, but should one be able to run two different affiliate plugins? One for the main site and then one for the subblogs?
Not sure how affiliate plugins work so obviously not easy to tell off hand, but should one be able to run two different affiliate plugins? One for the main site and then one for the subblogs?
You can run distinct affiliate plugin installs by installing in the plugins directory and activating individually on the relevant blogs. You can't, however, run one install in mu-plugins (multi-site wide) and another in plugins.
You can run distinct affiliate plugin installs by installing in the plugins directory and activating individually on the relevant blogs. You can't, however, run one install in mu-plugins (multi-site wide) and another in plugins.
Sounds good, but with the new affiliate plugin, I see it needs to be network activated.
So if I have wpmudev affiliate plugin setup network activated and a subblog uses a different affiliate plugin for that subblog, should that work?
Responses (13)
Sales & Support Lead — 11th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya Nick,
Unfortunately the plugin won't work in both locations at the same time. It's really designed to be used once per install - either mutlisite or a regular wordpress install. You could try putting it in the regular plugins folder and then activating it on two individual blogs, but I don't believe it'd give you the results you're looking for.
I'll ask Barry (lead developer for this plugin) if he has a suggestion for what you're trying to do though.
Thanks!
Member — 11th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
Yes, please ask him, because we really need an affiliate script for both. (Sorta like the Google Analytics plugin which provides for both sitewide and individual blog analytics.)
Thanks man.
Member — 12th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
I wonder if going through all the files and changing any reference to affiliate to something else and all the file names would essentially create a "second" affiliate plugin? Saw somebody say they did this with the membership plugin.
Developer — 12th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
@Terran - It'd be a *lot* of work as you'd need to change everywhere the plugin access cookies, and user_meta - you'd need to update supporter as well as otherwise it will be sending payments to the changed version of the plugin as well.
You may as well write a new plugin, rather than try to change the existing one.
@nickd32
By this it sounds like you are tracking links to sub-blogs already, not sure of the way you would have that working with supporter? maybe i'm getting things confused, but wouldn't you be signing people up with supporter only on the main blog? so you'd only need to track links to that one blog, then you could enable the affiliate plugin on other sites / blogs individually.
Member — 13th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
@Barry - I have the affiliate plugin installed in /mu-plugins/, which is what the directions originally said for WPMU installs.
That was to allow any individual blog owners (or sub-blogs, as you call them) to refer people to sign up for a blog as well. I'm just using the default setup. That plugins tracks whenever people upgrade to supporter.
But now, I've got a few users who want affiliate scripts on their (sub) blogs integrated with Membership (or even MarketPress), so I'm trying to find the best way to handle that.
Are you suggesting that I can remove the affiliate plugin from /mu-plugins/ and still use it in /plugins/ on the main site to track supporter signups sitewide?
Member — 28th December 2010 (1 year ago) #
For whatever its worth,
I have the same request from some sub-blog owners who want to run an affiliate program on their sub-blog.
It would be great to have a version of the Affiliates plugin that was designed for site by site activation.
Then the super admin site owner could activate it on the main site and any sub users who want to run an affiliate program could activate it on their sub-sites.
Phil Duncan
Member — 13th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
@Barry - can you comment? Should we put the affiliate plugin in /plugins/ and activate it on the main blog in order to track supporter signups sitewide?
Member — 14th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
I'm thinking of setting up a separate (different) membership plugin and affiliate plugin that can be used for Supporter subblogs.
Not sure how affiliate plugins work so obviously not easy to tell off hand, but should one be able to run two different affiliate plugins? One for the main site and then one for the subblogs?
Developer — 14th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
You can run distinct affiliate plugin installs by installing in the plugins directory and activating individually on the relevant blogs. You can't, however, run one install in mu-plugins (multi-site wide) and another in plugins.
Member — 15th January 2011 (1 year ago) #
Sounds good, but with the new affiliate plugin, I see it needs to be network activated.
So if I have wpmudev affiliate plugin setup network activated and a subblog uses a different affiliate plugin for that subblog, should that work?
Member — 23rd January 2011 (1 year ago) #
I have activated the affiliate plugin network wide.
I'm not sure why "Affiliate System Administration" is showing up under the Dashboard of a member site.
I don't want any of the member sites changing the settings.
Member — 14th February 2011 (1 year ago) #
@Jim I'm still having the same problem, reported in this thread...
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/wordpress-affiliate-all-users-can-see-admin-section
Member — 21st April 2011 (1 year ago) #
Hi,geroge I'm having the same problem,would you mind sharing with is what 'different' option you are using for Child site Membership and Affiliates?
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