The Affiliate Link Cloaker is a user-friendly WordPress plugin which allows you to cloak affiliate links. It can also be used to shorten links on your WordPress blog.

Plugin Description

Affiliate Link Cloaker allows you to create a cloaked link for any affiliate URL. After you created a cloaked link you will be able to use that anywhere on your website. Anyone visiting your website will see the cloaked/shortened link. Once the link is clicked the visitor will be redirected to the full URL.

Installation

Via FTP

1. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘affiliate-link-cloaker’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Via WordPress Plugin Uploader

• On your Dashboard go to “Add New” under “Plugins”.
• Click “Upload”.
• Click “Browse”.
• Select the “affiliate-link-cloaker.zip” file and hit “Install Now”.
• Once the Installation is completed, click “Activate Plugin”.

Usage

1. Once you install and activate the plugin, go to “WP Link Cloaker” under “Settings”. (See screenshot here)
2. Under “general settings” of the plugin there is a field “Cloak Word”. In this field you can enter any text which will be used to create the tiny URL. The default text is “item”. If you change any text of the field click “Update”. (See screenshot here)
3. Now go to the tab “Add Link”. (see screenshot here)
4. There is a field called “Target Link” where you need to enter your full affiliate URL or any link that you want to shorten. Enter the URL and click “Save”. (see screenshot here)
5. Go to the tab called “Manage Links”. (See screenshot here)
6. You will see that a “Cloaked/Shortened URL” has been created for the URL you just provided. Now use this “Cloaked version of the URL” anywhere on your blog. (see screenshot here)

Plugin Demo

This link has been configured to work as a cloaked link. The actual target link is the following:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-estore-plugin-complete-solution-to-sell-digital-products-from-your-wordpress-blog-securely-1059?ap_id=naa986

Click here to see how it works.

Download

Download the Affiliate Link Cloaker plugin from here

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestion.

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As the time goes by, WordPress is becoming very popular as a CMS (Content Management System). If you’ve already started blogging  in WordPress, may be you are thinking of setting up an online business. The first thing to solve any problem is to identify it. Once you identify it, it’s very simple to get the solution. In this case you have to think what exactly you need to start an online business on your WordPress site.

When it comes to set up an online business with WordPress, You need to have 3 things-

1. A WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.

2. A WordPress Affiliate Plugin.

3. A WordPress Membership Plugin.

Why do you need to have those plugins?

• If you want to sell anything from your blog, you really need to have a reliable and easy to use WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Which will automatically handle all your product sales.
• Once you start selling products from your own website, you will certainly want to increase the sales. To increase your sales you need more traffic. You can get more traffic if other people refer traffic to your website. But they won’t refer traffic until you offer them a specific commission for each conversion. That’s why you need to have an Affiliate program on your website.
• When you have both the shopping cart and affiliate program running, you can now set some of your blog contents (e.g- page,post) to premium so that only paid members can view those. A fully featured Membership plugin will be useful in that case.

Recommended Solutions

As we have figured out what we need to have to set up an online business, Let’s discuss about the possible solutions.

1. WP eStore

It is a user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin developed by tipsandtricks-hq.com. You can sell any kind of digital or non-digital product from your website with this plugin. In fact, I’m using this plugin to sell e-book from my site. They provide great support to the customer.

You can see the Official plugin demo videos to see how it works-

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. WP Affiliate Platform

This is an easy to use WordPress affiliate plugin to manage your affiliates. With this plugin any one can sign up for an affiliate and promote your product on his/her website.

Here is the official demo videos to see how the plugin works-

i) WP Affiliate Platform Installation

ii) WP Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration

iii) WP Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation

iv) WP Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test

3. WP eMember

A fully featured membership plugin for WordPress. With this plugin you can easily create different membership levels and protect different contents of your blog for different members.

Here is the WP eMember official demo videos on plugin usage-

i) WP eMember Installation

ii) How to Create Membership Levels

iii) Configuring the Settings Options

iv) Managing Content Protection

v) Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

Another good thing about all these plugins is they are pre-integrated with one another so you can use them simultaneously.

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What is Conversion Optimizer?

Basically, Conversion Optimizer is an Adwords feature which significantly increases your conversion rate at a lower cost

How Conversion Optimizer Works

1. It monitors your conversion tracking data and see how often each auction leads to a conversion.

2. Based on the performance it determines which auctions will be good to use.

3. It automatically adjusts your bids on a continuous basis. Consequently, your money gets invested for the best auction.

4. It also creates an ad rank on the basis of your CPA bid, quality score and predicted conversion rate.

Benefits of Using Conversion Optimizer

• It allows you to increase your profits.

• It is Easy to use.

• Decrease you time for managing bids.

• You can enable and disable this feature anytime.

• Disabling this feature will revert all your campaigns to the previous state.

• It allows you to get the maximum CPA goals.

• It is completely free for Adwords advertisers.

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Main Features

• You can easily Create, Manage or Edit as many auctions as you like.

• You can increment your own bid anytime.

• You can specify the ending date and time

• For any auction you can upload many images.

• It allows you to Show your auctions in a AJAX powered popup

• You can also place auctions in any page or post.

Additional Features

• Any registered user will be able to participate in auction.

• Payment through Paypal, check or wire transfer is accepted.

• Shipping option is also available.

• When there is no auction it shows 3rd party ads.

• It allows to set your own currency.

• Bid notifications are sent via email (e.g- when any bidder gets outbid).

• If any bidder wins he/she gets notification via email with payment instruction.

• It allows you to delete any fraudulent bid.

• Google Adsense or any other CPC program compatible.

• You can choose up to 5 different free color styles for your blog.

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Couple of days ago I received an email from WordPress saying “Someone has asked for a password reset for www.wordpress-ecommerce.com, If you are the right person follow the link to reset your password”. I was totally surprised getting that email as it never happened to me and I was never that worried about the security of my website before. Luckily I found a WordPress plugin named “Login LockDown” and installed on my site instantly.

One good think about this plugin is it keeps track of the IP address and after a certain number of login attempt (which you can specify in the settings of the plugin) from the same IP address, it disables the login option. So anyone who is trying to hack your password using brute force won’t be able to do anything.

There are 5 options under the main settings.

• Max Login Retries: It determines how many times someone can tries to log in from the same IP.
• Retry Time Period Restriction: you can specify a time period after which someone can retry.
• Lockout Length: Length of the time period for lockout.
• You can also lockout invalid username and mask login error checking the option.

At the bottom of the plugin settings, you can also see if it has blocked any IP address currently. If it does that means someone was trying to get access to your site.

Another mistake that people often do is installing any kind of free WordPress Plugin on their server. Free WordPress plugin doesn’t mean that it’s secure. Before installing any plugin you need to make sure that it’s credible and helpful for you. Some people even don’t use any plugin but they will have to have hundreds of free WordPress plugins installed on their site. What they don’t realize is any of this plugins might have a malicious PHP script. Once you activate the plugin the malicious PHP script will run and cause harm to your site. And who knows how worse it can be. I’ve a friend whose website got hacked by  this. Not too long ago. The Malicious PHP script which caused harm to his site not only did different weird things but also changed the file permission of all the folders and files. Consequently, his site became so vulnerable that it can be hacked by other people easily.

So even if nobody has hacked your login information, you are letting other people get into your site just by installing a free WordPress plugin. I recommend you to think wisely before installing any WordPress plugin, no matter if it’s a free plugin.

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A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a site named VideoPress. From the name I guessed it to be a product of WordPress. I was very excited and found that this could be really handy to use on any wordpress blog. Actually It is an upgrade which allows you to upload, share and embed video on your wordpress blog easily.

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VideoPress allows you to upload any video and convert the video into different format (e.g DVD quality, HD quality etc). You will be able to preview the video and embed it in your post.

How To Use VideoPress

This is a nice video which introduces you to the VideoPress

For the WordPress.com blog user

1.You need to go to your upgrades page and buy the VideoPress upgrade.

2. Once you buy, you can upload the videos and embed them on your WordPress.com hosted blog.

For the self-hosted WordPress blogger

1. At first, you need to follow the above steps as the video will be hosted on WordPress.com server. If you do not have a wordpress.com hosted blog, you need to create one and follow the above steps.

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Advantage:

1.  Set up blog without knowing anything.

2. No configurations file editing, just register and start blogging.

3. Built-in comment spam protection.

4. Ability to use pre-added theme.

5. Get support from the WordPress MU users.

System Requirements:

PHP: Version 4.3 or later

MySQL: Version 4.0 or greater

Installation:

1. Download the WordPress MU ZIP file from http://mu.wordpress.org

2. Extract all the files from the ZIP archive to your WordPress directory using any FTP client.

3. Create a MySQL database for installing WordPress MU, suppose wpmu

4. Go to WordPress MU URL ( when the page comes for the first time, it prompts for a new installation

5. Input all the necessary database parameters into the form shown on the webpage  ( make sure if the permission to your wp-config.php file is writable for your user account )

6. Click on Submit

7. After you are done with creating your database give your weblog title, email and then submit

8. Installation is complete, all the necessary information with password will be sent to your email account

Installing Blogs of Other People:

1. People now may visit your blog and set up their blogs

2. There are two ways to log into WPMU admin panel – the usual login link or to set up a new blog

3. If people want to set up blogs, they can give their information as shown on the page and sign up

4. If the blog set up is successful they will be redirected to next page and the administration information will be sent to their email addresses

In this way you can use WordPress MU to set up multiple blogs and it is easy

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