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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Toby, you are correct - because of the somewhat cumbersome way that wordpress does things, the only thing you can count on is things getting screwed over. It is just par for the course.
Wordpress I think isn't the right tool for this job... you can probably force it to do it, but way too much effort is needed.
Alex
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Yeah, WP makes the passing of the affiliate code a rather complicated venture at first. There are simply too many steps involved, each one taking its turn at dropping the code. I did finally have a breakthrough of sorts and can successfully pass the aff code through creation and from post to post, and the ad links to the paysite are picking up the query as well. It's only are few lines of code here and there. The hard part was figuring out where they needed to be. The category links pretty much refuse to handle it, so I'm going to hard code them instead of allowing them to be dynamically created.
WP definately did not have this type of thing in mind. The few posts I could find about handling affiliate codes on WP's forum pretty much went unanswered. I have given up my search for documentation on how this could be done simply.
I haven't toyed with the RSS feed yet, and I'm a little scared now. I think the feed would be a useful tool, so I'm not going to give up on it until it proves to me how much of fool I am for attempting it.
