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How do I provide RSS feed in wordpress for my affiliates?

by hypnospirit
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Hi guys! I am just setting up a blog with wordpress which I'll be regularly posting to. I'll also have products for sale on the blog and want my affiliates to be able to use my RSS feed to promote them.

I sell my products using e-junkie.com

The blog is empty right now but the RSS feed is:
blogorious.com/?feed=rss2

I want it so people can use:
blogorious.com/?feed=rss2&aff=12345

(where 12345 is their e-junkie affiliate id)

I'm not looking to create datafeeds or anything like that, I just want people that use my RSS feed in places like twitterfeed.com to tweet my posts to get credited if someone buys something at my site after clicking on the tweet.

From what I can tell... hypnosisdownloads.com does pretty much exactly what I want to do... but, it looks like they have their own rss feed set up.. I just want to do it all using wordpress with a plug in!

Does anyone know of a plugin that can do this... or a way to do it... doesn't have to be wordpress... but I am new to RSS and blogs so it has to be easy!!!

Thank you very much!!
Steve
#affiliates #feed #provide #rss #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author newmoon
    possibly you will need to go for any custom solution.
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    • Profile picture of the author LibertyUnc
      I think this is very doable...but I'm dead tired. I'll see about writing something up to do this when I get a chance...but it might be a day or three.

      Basically, I would:

      1. Add a filter to query_vars to add an affiliate id query variable to wp
      2. Add a filter to the rss feeds to check and see if the custom query variable is set and, if so, rewrite the urls on the page to add the affiliate ID to the end of each url.
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      • Profile picture of the author hypnospirit
        Thanks! I'd really appreciate some help getting something like this sorted. I was really surprised that it wasn't already a popular WP plugin as I would have thought all merchants would want to do it. What you've suggested sounds like it'd be ideal.

        I guess I should get cracking on creating the products!!
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