discourse-affiliate

Fork of the official affiliation plugin for Discourse. This fork adds support for defining any domain you'd like as being redirected.

Usage

Go to /admin/site_settings/category/plugins, enter your affiliation ids and enable the plugin via the affiliate_enabled site setting.

Defining custom domains

To define cusom domains to rewrite the links for, do as follows:

• First define your base domain, which is where you host your "redirection logic". You could host it yourself, and account for url, uri and path variables (best—could support deep-linking) or use a link shortener service like Geni.us (will allow you to update links in the future, run A/B tests, add tracking pixels, etc—cheap, starts at $2 per month) or Bit.ly (free, but you can't update links in the future, run tests, etc). This could be https://foo.com/out/ (remember the trailing slash)
• You can define three variables for each custom domain you want to rewrite the links for: the domain itself (e.g. bar.com), the path to add to your base redirection domain (e.g. bar), and optionally if you'd like you can add a variable that will pass the original URL in whole or in part (e.g. uri). In this example, you would write bar.com,bar,uri

Note that bar.com is not the same as www.bar.com, so you'll have to add an entry for each subdomain you want to support.

The difference between url, uri and path

with bar.com,bar,url:

• https://bar.com --> https://foo.com/out/bar?url=https://bar.com
• https://bar.com/search?q=something --> https://foo.com/out/bar?url=https://bar.com/search?q=something

with bar.com,bar,uri:

• https://bar.com --> https://foo.com/out/bar
• https://bar.com/search?q=something --> https://foo.com/out/bar?uri=/search?q=something

with bar.com,bar,path:

• https://bar.com --> https://foo.com/out/bar
• https://bar.com/search?q=something --> https://foo.com/out/bar?path=/search

with only bar.com,bar:

• https://bar.com --> https://foo.com/out/bar
• https://bar.com/?q=something --> https://foo.com/out/bar
• https://bar.com/search?q=something --> https://bar.com/search?q=something

Installation

Follow our Install a Plugin howto, using git clone https://github.com/tkrunning/discourse-affiliate.git as the plugin command.

Issues

If you have issues or suggestions for the plugin, please bring them up on Discourse Meta.

License

MIT