Putting together a better homepage for Siren. I need tons of fake data, so I guess it’s finally time to start putting together a generator. I’m so, so grateful for the Faker library because it makes this WAY simpler.
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How Multiple Programs Makes Siren Easier To Maintain
Other affiliate plugins for WordPress are notoriously bad at maintaining affiliate programs, particularly when the program has several special conditions. This post dives into how Siren avoids these pitfalls.
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Coding Practices, PHP Nomad, and ChatGPT with Alex Standiford
This was a really fun conversation! I don’t get to nerd out this unapologetically too often on podcasts haha
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Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin Is Making Your Life So Much Harder.
Your WordPress Affiliate Plugin is making your life so much harder. They look at affiliate programs backwards, and as a result, you create a single, gigantic, complex program. This is really limiting! Let’s dig into the pitfalls of that. The simplest version of these programs need to capture different commission types, and rules. – Special […]
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How Siren Promotes Collaboration Among Your Affiliates
Siren allows you to create more than one reward program on your site. This creates unique opportunities for your affiliates to work together. This post explores some ways different programs can combine together so that everyone wins.
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Do The Woo: Re-imagining Affiliate Programs for Your Woo Biz with Alex Standiford
In this episode, I emphasize the importance of developing strong, personalized relationships with affiliates, moving away from the traditional affiliate link model and exploring more collaborative and multifaceted approaches. The conversation also leads into the potential drawbacks of traditional affiliate programs, highlighting the need for a more nuanced and individualized approach to maximize success for both the affiliate and the business.
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Maximize Course and Coaching Revenue Through Partnerships with Siren Affiliates
Chris Badgett invited me on the Lifter LMS podcast to talk a little about how Siren is changing how WordPress sites can look at not only affiliate programs, but partnerships in-general.
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Looking For A Good Content Organizer For WordPress (Solved!)
I recently imported a decades worth of tweets on my site, and the hashtags were automatically added as regular tags. Now I want to go through and wrangle them. I know I can do a lot of this in core WordPress, but I’m hoping I can find some utilities that will make this easier.
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A Litany of Potential Improvements.
After importing over a decade of tweets into my site, I had several improvements to offer to the import utility I used. I compiled my changes to the code, and submitted it as a pull request, detailing what I needed, and why.
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Alex Standiford
WHEW what a process! I managed to get all of my tweets that I exported and deleted from Twitter two years ago, all imported into this site, including all of the photos and videos. I think I can finally say that I have centralized all of my content through alexstandiford.com now. Huge thanks to Shawn Hooper for building this importer, as it gave me a big leg up in the process. From here, it’s just a matter of wrangling all of the tags, and generally organizing the content a little better, but the fact that it’s in WordPress is a huge first step.
I’ll share a blog post that goes into the stack, and details of the process soon.
