FREE Asset Store Affiliate link generator for Wordpress users

For those of you who do not know yet, Unity has a new program called Unity Affiliates where you can advertise any product on the Asset Store and when you send someone to the store and they buy that item within 24 hours, you get a 5% commission.

Unfortunately, they don’t currently have a link generator link anywhere you can navigate to via their website so either you bookmarked the link when they emailed it to you or you are screwed. Well, that never really bothered me much since I was not a big fan of going there, doing a search for an asset, waiting for it to find it, then clicking on “create link” then waiting for the next page to load so I could decide what style of link I wanted then copying the iframe code, going to my website, pasting it somewhere, going back to the other page and then redoing the entire thing all over again… So right from the start I created my own tool to duplicate what they do… only much faster and a lot less PT. :smile:

Instead of doing all of the above, I just type in [as_aff_widget asset=29385] and I am done. :smile: Sooooo much easier :smile: Optional parameters to do your click tracking, dark/light theme selection and as an extra bonus my plugin allows you to attach custom CSS to their code.

Well, as of right now, that plugin is available to you for only 99.95! Oh wait, I already said “free”, right? Well okay then, free it is! :smile:

Enjoy
http://guild.site/development/wordpress-systems/unity-affiliate-shortcodes/

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very useful. Thanks!

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Updated link for those who are interested…

Thank you! I installed your wp plugin today. :sunglasses:

On your webpage examples you show quotes (" ") around the product number in your shortcode which actually breaks the link… I tried the shortcode without the quotes and it seems to work correctly now…. :wink:

strange… Oh well, quotes are optional for params anyway so I guess it’s a matter of preference. I use quotes in my examples as I believe that is the “correct” way to define params… but starting yesterday I also started saying 'Meh, why bother?" :smile:

Sorry you ran into hurdles. Glad you got it sorted, though, and hope it serves you well :smile:

Enjoy

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