25 Most Useful WordPress Widgets for Your Site

Are you looking for useful WordPress widgets for your website?

Widgets allow you to add content, features, and other elements to your WordPress sidebar and other widget-ready areas.

WordPress comes with a handful of built-in widgets that you can use right away. WordPress plugins and themes can also add their own WordPress widgets as well.

In this article, we will share some of the most useful WordPress widgets for your site. These widgets will help you effectively use your website’s digital real estate to improve user experience and grow your business.

1. WP Call Button

As mobile internet traffic grows, most users find it convenient to just call a business for more information. WP Call Button allows you to easily add a click to call now button to your WordPress site.

You can use it to add a sticky button thats scrolls with the user or use the widget to display the call button in a sidebar.

It works with any landline or mobile phone number, but we recommend using a professional business phone service to make sure that you never miss a call.

For step by step instructions, see our article on how to easily add a click-to-call button in WordPress.

2. WPForms

WPForms is the best WordPress contact form plugin on the market. It allows you to quickly create a contact form and add it anywhere on your website.

It comes with a drag and drop form builder, ready-to-use form templates, Gutenberg block, and sidebar widget. It is a premium plugin with a free version available as WPForms Lite.

For details, see our guide on how to create a contact form in WordPress with step by step instructions.

3. RafflePress

RafflePress is the best WordPress giveaway / contest plugin. It allows you to create viral giveaways and contests to instantly get a lot of traffic, new customers, and subscribers.

It allows you to run a giveaway and add it to a post, page, or sidebar widget. You can also create a standalone landing page for your giveaway and promote it across your social profiles.

RafflePress is a paid plugin with a free version called RafflePress Lite.

To learn more, see our guide on how to run a giveaway in WordPress with detailed instructions.

4. Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails

By default, WordPress comes with a recent posts widget, which displays a plain list of your recent posts. Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails allows you to display recent posts with thumbnails.

It uses the featured image or the first image in a post as thumbnail. You can also adjust the height and width of the image from the widget’s settings screen.

5. Astra Widgets

Astra Widgets is widget pack created by the folks behind the popular Astra Theme. It allows you to easily add your business location, social profile links, and an icon list to your WordPress sidebar.

It works with any WordPress theme and is compatible with all popular page builder plugins as well.

6. Simple Social Icons

It is a really simple widget to add social icons to your sidebars. All the configuration options are in the widget’s settings. You can choose which social networks to link to and add your profile URLs.

You can also modify the icon by choosing the background and icon font color. For details, see our tutorial on how to add social media icons in your WordPress sidebar.

This plugin is built by StudioPress, the popular company behind the Genesis Theme Framework (now a subsidiary of WP Engine).

7. Google Maps Widget

An easier way to add a map to your site’s sidebar is by using Google Maps Widget. This simple widget allows you to display a Google map in a widget. When a user clicks on the map, a larger map opens in a lightbox popup.

This is one of the best WordPress widgets for businesses that want to display their address and location on their site. Check out our guide on how to add Google Maps in WordPress for more information.

8. Social Count Plus

You may have seen that some popular websites show their social followers count in the sidebar. This adds to the credibility of your website by adding social proof.

Social Count Plus widget allows you to easily display your social media follower count in the sidebar. See our guide on how to display social media followers count in WordPress.

This widget only displays your follower count and not the number of times an article is shared on your website.

If you want to display share counts for individual posts, then we recommend using Shared Counts, which is one of the best social media plugins for WordPress. It will allow you to easily add social sharing buttons to your posts and pages with share count for each social media website.

9. Compact Archives

The default monthly archives widget shows your blog archives in a long list of months. This can take up a lot of space. Compact Archives solves this problem by grouping your monthly archives into years and displaying them in a compact form.

It also comes with a Gutenberg block that you can add to in your posts and pages. It also includes a widget that you can use in your blog’s sidebar.

For more information check out our tutorial on how to create compact archives in WordPress.

10. OptinMonster

OptinMonster is the best WordPress lead generation software on the market. It allows you to easily convert website visitors into subscribers and customers.

It helps you grow your email list by adding sign up forms in sidebar widgets, lightbox popup, floating bars, and more.

OptinMonster is the best WordPress widget for eCommerce sites and businesses who want to boost their conversions.

11. AdSanity

AdSanity is the best ad management plugin for WordPress. It allows you to easily display ads anywhere on your website and comes with a widget to automatically display ads in your blog’s sidebar.

If you are planning to support your website with Google AdSense, banner ads, or affiliate marketing, then AdSanity helps you maximize your ad space and generate more revenue.

12. Testimonials Rotator

An easy way to add social proof to your website is by adding customer testimonials to your website. Testimonials Rotator allows you to easily add customer testimonials to your website.

It is one of the best testimonial plugins for WordPress and comes with a nifty widget that allows you to display rotating testimonials in a sidebar. This takes less space and allows you to cleverly use sidebars to boost social trust.

For detailed instructions, see our article on how to add rotating testimonials in WordPress.

13. Feature a Page Widget

This neat plugin allows you to add a page as a featured page in your WordPress sidebar. You can choose to display a page title, featured image, and excerpt. See this article on how to feature a page in WordPress to learn more.

14. Easy Table of Contents

Easy Table of Contents plugin allows you to easily add a table of contents to your articles. It comes in handy if you often publish long-form articles. Adding a table of contents helps users quickly jump to different sections.

The plugin can automatically insert a table of contents to longer articles or you can manually add it. Additionally, it also comes with a widget to display the table in the sidebar.

For details, see our article on how to easily add table of contents in WordPress.

15. Widget Context

Widget Context plugin allows you to show and hide widgets based on context. For example, you can hide a widget if a user is viewing a specific page.

This comes in handy if you don’t want to display a widget on certain pages or only want to display it on specific sections. For details, see our article on how to show / hide widgets in WordPress.

16. Q2W3 Fixed Widget for WordPress

The sidebar widgets usually disappear as a user scroll down your website. Q2W3 Fixed Widget for WordPress allows you to change any widget into a fixed widget that stays on the screen as users scroll down.

This comes in handy if you want to display a special offer, important content, or a newsletter sign up form. For details, see our guide on how to create a sticky floating widget in WordPress.

17. WordPress Popular Posts

WordPress Popular Posts is the best popular posts plugin for WordPress. As the name suggests, it allows you to display your most popular posts in WordPress.

The plugin comes with a widget that you can add to a sidebar. You can also use the shortcode or a template tag to display popular posts anywhere on your site.

18. WP-PostRatings

WP-PostRatings plugin allows you to easily add a post rating system to your WordPress website. Your users can then rate articles on your site and provide you with instant feedback.

The plugin also comes with a widget, which you can use to display your top-rated content in your blog’s sidebar.

19. Theme My Login

Theme My Login is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to create a custom login page for your website visitors. It is highly useful if you allow user registration on your website or run a multi-author WordPress blog.

The plugin also comes with a sidebar login widget, which you can use to make it easier for users to log in to their accounts. For details, see our guide on how to create front-end / sidebar login form in WordPress.

20. Advanced AJAX Product Filters

Advanced AJAX Product Filters allows you to display an instant product filter for your WooCommerce store. You can allow your users to filter products by price, rating, or attributes by simply adding a filter widget to your sidebar.

21. Google Language Translator

Google Language Translator plugin allows you to easily add a language switcher widget to your WordPress site. It uses Google Translate to translate content on your website in any language.

Alternative: TranslatePress allows you to combine Google translate with manual translations to improve the overall quality of your translated content.

22. Widget Importer & Exporter

Now that you have set up your widgets and configured its settings, you may want to move them to another website. This is where Widget Importer & Exporter plugin comes in handy.

It allows you to download all your widgets as JSON file, which you can then import on any other WordPress site. If you are using the same theme and plugins, then all your widgets will be imported exactly as they were.

If you are using a different theme that does not have the same widget areas as the old theme, then those widgets will be imported as inactive widgets. You can then drag and drop them to any widget area you like.

23. The Events Calendar

The Events Calendar is one of the best WordPress calendar plugins on the market. It allows you to easily manage event listings on a WordPress website.

You can add new events with full details, display an events calendar in a WordPress post or page, or display upcoming events in a sidebar widget.

24. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) is the best WordPress related posts plugin on the market. It allows you to easily display related content for each article on your website.

It uses an advanced algorithm to match content which allows it to show more contextually related posts than other plugins. It also comes with a widget that you can use to display related posts in a sidebar.

25. Posts in Sidebar

Posts in Sidebar is a really simple but highly useful plugin. It allows you to show specific posts in a sidebar widget.

You can select which posts you want to show, display them with title, excerpt, and a thumbnail, or plain lists. You can also use it with the Widget Context plugin to show different posts on different areas of your website.

We hope this article helped you find some useful WordPress widgets for your website. You may also want to see our guide on the best WordPress plugins and the best Gutenberg block plugins for your website.

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October 10, 2019 at 04:00PM

How to Add CAPTCHA in WordPress Login and Registration Form

Do you want to add CAPTCHA to login and registration forms on your WordPress site?

Often WordPress login page and user registration page are a prime target for hackers, spammers, and brute force attacks.

The attackers motivation is often to gain unauthorized access to your WordPress admin area to distribute malware or in other cases crash the entire network of websites hosted with a specific web hosting company to collect ransom.

One way to avoid these attacks is by using CAPTCHA which effectively blocks spambots and protects your site from being hacked.

In this article, we will show you how to easily add CAPTCHA in WordPress login and registration form.

What is CAPTCHA?

A CAPTCHA is a computer program used to distinguish between human and automated users. It does that by presenting a test that would be quite easy for a human user to pass but way harder and almost impossible for automated scripts to get right.

In the earlier days of the CAPTCHA, users were asked to enter the text they saw in an image. This image displayed random letters, words, or numbers in a distorted style.

Later, a newer technology called reCAPTCHA was introduced. It showed random words as a challenge and used the user input to help digitalize books.

This technology was acquired by Google in 2009. Since then, it has helped digitalized thousands of books and complete New York Times archives.

However, these new CAPTCHAs were still annoying and ruined the user experience on websites.

To fix this, Google introduced “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA” which uses AI and user interactions to catch spambots.

It shows an easier checkbox for human users to click on. For other suspicious traffic, it would show a more difficult CAPTCHA like identifying objects in images.

That being said, let’s take a look at how WordPress websites can improve security with CAPTCHA.

Why Use CAPTCHA for WordPress Login and Registration?

WordPress login and registration pages are an easy target for spammers, wannabe hackers, and brute force attacks.

That’s because WordPress is the most popular website builder in the world, which makes it a common target for malicious attempts.

The easiest solution to protect your WordPress site is by using a WordPress firewall plugin like Sucuri. It will block bad traffic from reaching your website and prevent unauthorized access.

Another solution is to add a secondary layer of password protection on WordPress login and registration pages. However, the problem with this method is that you’ll have to share that second password with each user, and this simply doesn’t scale for large multi-author blogs or membership sites.

CAPTCHA provides an easier alternative to those solutions. It uses Google’s AI technologies to detect genuine visitors and present CAPTCHA challenges to suspicious users.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily add CAPTCHA to your WordPress site.

Default vs Custom WordPress Login and Registration Form

The default WordPress login and registration form provide a basic set of features.

The login page allow users to access the backend of your website according to their respective user roles and permissions.

The default WordPress registration form lets visitors create an account on your site. Once they are registered, they can also login to your website backend and perform specific tasks allowed by their user role.

A lot of website owners want to customize the default WordPress login and registration page with their own logo, styles, etc. They use one of the many plugins to create their own custom login and registration page to replace the default ones.

Whether you’re using the default pages or custom ones, we have got you covered.

In this guide, we will show you how to set up reCAPTCHA for both default and custom login and registration pages in WordPress.

Let’s get started by adding reCAPTCHA in default WordPress login and registration form.

Adding reCAPTCHA to Default WordPress Login and Registration Form

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Advanced noCAPTCHA & reCAPTCHA (v2 & V3) plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Once the plugin is activated, you need to visit Settings » Advanced noCAPTCHA & Invisible CAPTCHA page from your admin panel. Once done, WordPress will take you to the plugin’s general settings page.

From there, you need to choose a Google reCAPTCHA version and find reCAPTCHA API keys to enable the service on your site.

We recommend using v2 because we believe v3 is not as stable just yet.

To obtain these API keys, you need to visit reCAPTCHA website and click on the ‘Admin Console’ button.

On the next screen, Google will ask you to sign in to your account. Once you are logged in, you will see the ‘Register a new site’ page.

First, you need to enter your website name in the Label field. After that, you need to select a reCAPTCHA type. For example, we will choose reCAPTCHA v2 ‘I’m not a robot’ checkbox.

Next, you need to enter your domain name under the Domains section. Make sure to enter your domain name without ‘https://www.’

The Owners section shows your email address and also lets you add a new owner.

After that you need to check the box next to ‘Accept the reCAPTCHA Terms of Service’. Optionally, you can also check the ‘Send alerts to owners’ box to receive email alerts about suspicious traffic or captcha misconfiguration on your site.

Once done, click on the Submit button.

Next, you will see a success message along with the site and secret keys that you can use on your site.

Now you need to open your WordPress dashboard and go to Settings » Advanced noCAPTCHA & Invisible CAPTCHA page to set up Google reCAPTCHA.

Once you are on the plugin settings page, you need to choose the Google reCAPTCHA version first. Since we’ve registered our site for Google reCAPTCHA v2 ‘I’m not a robot,’ we will select that option from the dropdown.

After that, you need to enter the site key and secret key provided by Google reCAPTCHA earlier.

Next, you will see the ‘Enabled Forms’ option. Check the box next to the forms where you want to enable the Google reCAPTCHA. Here, we will choose the Login Form and Registration Form.

After that, you can scroll down the page to review other options. Once you’re done with the customization, click on the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom.

That’s it! You have successfully added reCAPTCHA in default WordPress login and registration form. To preview it, you can open your WordPress login URL on your browser. For example; https://ift.tt/12fdRXe.

If you want to check the reCAPTCHA on the registration form, then click on the Register link below the login form. After that, the WordPress registration form will open, and you can see how reCAPTCHA works.

Setting Up reCAPTCHA in Custom WordPress Login and Registration Form

As we mentioned earlier, custom WordPress login and registration forms offer more user-friendly membership options to your website visitors.

First, you can allow users to register or login to your website from the frontend. This improves user experience and lets you keep the same overall design experience across the website.

Next, it lets you add your website logo and customize the login and registration page in your style.

Creating a custom WordPress login form and user registration form is easy with the most user-friendly WordPress form plugin, WPForms (used by over 2 million websites).

To get started, install and activate the WPForms plugin on your WordPress site. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

To create custom WordPress user registration form quickly, you need to get at least WPForms Pro plan.

Upon activation, head over to WPForms » Settings page to enter your WPForms license key. You can get this key from your account area on the WPForms website.

After that, click on the reCAPTCHA option at the top to configure reCAPTCHA for your custom made WordPress forms. First, you need to choose a reCAPTCHA type.

Since we chose v2 earlier, we will choose reCAPTCHA v3 here in this example, but please know that our recommendation is still v2.

After that, you will see the site key and secret key field. To get these keys, you need to register your site on Google reCAPTCHA website.

Go to the Google reCAPTCHA website and then click on the Admin Console button at the top right corner.

After that, Google will ask you to sign in to your account. Once done, you will see the ‘Register a new site’ page.

Enter your website name and then select reCAPTCHA v3 from the reCAPTCHA type option.

Next, you need to enter your domain name (without https://www.) as shown in the screenshot below.

If you want to add another Gmail user as the owner of the reCAPTCHA, then you can add the email address under the Owners section.

After that, you need to accept the reCAPTCHA terms of service. You can also check the box next to ‘Send alerts to owners’ option to get notification emails from Google about suspicious traffic on your site.

Once done, click on the Submit button.

After that, Google will show a success message along with the site key and the secret key to add reCAPTCHA to your site.

Now that you have the Google reCAPTCHA API keys, you need to open WPForms » Settings » reCAPTCHA page in your WordPress dashboard.

On the WPForms reCAPTCHA settings page, enter the site key and secret key. Once done, save your settings.

Now that you have successfully added reCAPTCHA on WPForms, you can easily enable reCAPTCHA in your custom login form, user registration form, or any form built with WPForms.

So now let’s go ahead and create a custom WordPress registration form.

Visit WPForms » Addons page. Locate ‘User Registration Addon’ and click on the ‘Install Addon’.

After that, WPForms will download and install the addon. Once you see the User Registration Addon’s status ‘Active,’ you are ready to add a new user registration form.

Now you need to go to WPForms » Add New to launch the WPForms Builder. On the WPForms setup page, select ‘User Registration Form’ template.

After that, WPForms will automatically build a custom user registration form and open the Form Setup page.

Now you can customize your form by adding new fields or editing the field options. If you like the default form, then you can use it without making any changes.

Next, you need to click on the Settings option to configure your form settings and enable the Google reCAPTCHA.

On the General Settings page, you can edit your form name, add form description, edit the Submit button text, and more. At the bottom, you can see checkboxes including Enable Google v3 reCAPTCHA box.

Simply check the box to enable Google reCAPTCHA in your user registration form. Once done, click on the Save button at the top right corner.

After that, you can close the form builder by clicking on the Close button next to the Save button.

That’s it! You have created a custom WordPress user registration form and also added reCAPTCHA to it.

The next thing you need to do is add the custom user registration form on your site. You can add the form to your posts, pages, or any widget-ready area easily. For example, we will create a new page and add the form to it.

Go to Pages » Add New page from your WordPress dashboard to build a new page. On your page edit screen, click on the ‘Add New Block’ icon and select the WPForms block.

Next, you can see the WPForms widget added to your page edit screen. You just need to select the Custom User Registration Form you created earlier. After that, the widget will automatically load the form in the page editor.

Next, you can add other necessary content and publish the page.

Now you can open the page on your web browser to see the custom user registration form with Google reCAPTCHA in action.

Since we chose reCAPTCHA v3 in this example, you won’t see a Google reCAPTCHA checkbox like ‘I’m not a robot’. This is because because reCAPTCHA v3 works in the background, but you will still see a small badge at the bottom right corner.

The process of creating a custom login form is almost the same. The only difference is that you need to choose the User Login Form template from the WPForms setup page.

After that, the whole process is the same. For more details, you can see our guide on how to create a custom login page in WordPress.

We hope this article helped you to learn how to add CAPTCHA in WordPress login and registration forms. You may also want to see our ultimate WordPress security guide to strengthen your overall website security.

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October 09, 2019 at 02:30PM

10 Best Affiliate Marketing Tools and Plugins for WordPress

Are you looking for the best affiliate marketing tools and plugins?

Affiliate marketing is a smart way to make money online by promoting products and services that you like and use. When your users make a purchase with your tracking link, then you earn a commission (it’s a win win).

In this article, we’ll share our handpicked list of the best affiliate marketing tools and plugins for WordPress.

Best Affiliate Marketing Tools and Plugins

WordPress is the most popular website builder among affiliate marketers and bloggers. Mainly because it gives you access to the best plugins and tools to promote your partners while bringing more traffic to your website.

However since there are so many WordPress plugins available, often beginners get confused about which plugins and tools they should use?

That’s why we did the research for you … and for us because we also monetize our website partially through affiliate marketing.

In our experience, you’ll need tools that help you do the following:

• Easily add affiliate links to your articles
• Manage and save affiliate links inside WordPress
• Create shareable affiliate links for social media and podcasts
• Grow your audience and build a loyal following
• Track the performance of your best affiliate campaigns

That being said, let’s take a look at the best affiliate marketing tools and plugins that help you grow your business.

1. Pretty Links

Pretty Links is a popular affiliate link management plugin for WordPress trusted by over 200,000 websites.

It allows you to easily add links to your WordPress posts, create short and memorable affiliate URLs for podcasts / social media, cloak affiliate links, and more.

You can also enable auto-linking feature to automatically add affiliate links for certain keywords. The plugin allows you to set up redirects which comes in handy if an affiliate link is returning a 404 error.

Pretty Links shows detailed link reports in your WordPress admin dashboard. This allows you to see which affiliate links are doing better on your website.

2. ThirstyAffiliates

ThirstyAffiliates is another powerful affiliate link management tool for WordPress. It allows you to manage your affiliate links within the WordPress admin dashboard easily.

You can quickly insert links into posts, cloak links, auto-insert affiliate links, and even see how each link is performing on your site. You can also sort your links into categories, which makes it easier to organize your affiliate partners.

The reason why the top two spots in our list are taken by link management plugins is because it’s that important. You need to choose either Pretty Links or Thirsty Affiliates.

3. MonsterInsights

As a smart affiliate marketer, you need to know which articles are getting more traffic, where are users coming from, and what are they doing while viewing your website.

This is where MonsterInsights comes in. It is the best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress (trusted by 2 million websites). It shows you actionable insights and web analytics reports within your WordPress dashboard.

MonsterInsights makes it super easy to automatically track your affiliate links. It comes with a link tracking feature that helps monitor URL clicks, banner ads, and other outbound links. You can combine this with page insights and other reports to get a more comprehensive analysis.

MonsterInsights is user-friendly and easy to set up. For detailed instructions, see our beginner’s guide on how to install Google Analytics in WordPress.

4. RafflePress

RafflePress is the best WordPress giveaway plugin on the market. It allows you to create viral giveaways and contests on your website, which helps you quickly get a lot of traffic.

It comes with a drag and drop giveaway builder to create engaging highly engaging giveaway campaigns. This helps you run campaigns promoting specific affiliate products, run seasonal campaigns, or grow your email list.

For more details see our complete RafflePress review or head over to step by step instructions and run your first giveaway or contest in WordPress.

5. Constant Contact

Constant Contact is the best email marketing service on the internet. It allows you to stay in touch with your website visitors even after they leave your website.

You can easily create an email newsletter, run email campaigns, and grow your subscribers with their platform.

You can create beautiful email campaigns in seconds by using its drag and drop email builder with tons of templates. You can promote your affiliate partners via your newsletter which opens up another channel to grow your affiliate earnings outside of your website.

Constant Contact provides detailed stats on how your campaigns are doing, and you can run A/B test to see what format your users find more engaging.

Alternative: SendinBlue / ConvertKit

6. OptinMonster

OptinMonster is the best lead generation and conversion optimization tool on the market. It comes with a powerful Exit-Intent® technology to convert your abandoning visitors into subscribers and customers.

You can use OptinMonster to add affiliate links to lightbox popups, slide-in signup forms, sidebar forms, floating bars, and more.

Each optin allows you to create new opportunities to maximize your affiliate commission, convert website visitors into subscribers, keep users engaged and spend more time on your site.

OptinMonster allows you to run split tests and boost your email signup rates. You should check out our guide on how to build your email list in WordPress.

7. WP RSS Aggregator

WP RSS Aggregator is a popular WordPress RSS plugin. It is ideal to fetch content from affiliate networks into your WordPress site. You can use it as a content aggregator, news curator, and combine it with your original content to increase your affiliate earnings.

With its powerful add-ons, you can set up auto blogs with your affiliate networks. It will automatically fetch products as posts into your WordPress blog, and you can edit those posts to add your own original content.

8. SEMRush

SEMRush is one of the best SEO tools on the market. It is a complete SEO and marketing toolkit for content creators and highly effective for affiliate marketers.

It comes with an incredibly powerful keyword research tool, which allows you to track keywords, find new ideas, see your keyword rankings, and more.

You can use it to run competitor analysis and see which keywords your competitors are ranking for. SEMRush then provides actionable tips to beat them in search rankings with their SEO writing assistant tool.

You can use the same keyword research and competition analysis tools to see which affiliate products are popular among your competitors, find new affiliate partners, or find new niche products to promote.

Alternative: Ahrefs

9. WPForms

WPForms is the most beginner-friendly WordPress contact form plugin. It comes with a drag and drop form builder to create any type of forms on your website easily.

You can use WPForms to create an affiliate sign up form and allow potential partners to send affiliate requests on your website. It integrates with popular services like Constant Contact to automatically send replies to your users.

WPForms also offers multiple pre-built templates for a user registration form, a sign up form, a poll/survey form, and more.

10. AdSanity

AdSanity is the best ad management plugin for WordPress. It comes with powerful display options to place ad banners on your header, sidebar, and footer of the website.

The plugin allows you to add affiliate links to your ads and get more clicks. With the publishing options, you can also set the start and end date for ads so you can promote exclusive deals from your affiliate partners.

It is the perfect tool for website owners who also use Google AdSense and other ad programs to supplement their revenue. You can easily place ad code to your website and dynamically display ads without editing WordPress theme files.

It shows complete graphical stats for individual ads, so you’ll know which ad placement is performing well on your website. You can also select a date range to view custom reports for specific ads.

Bonus: Affiliate Royale

Affiliate Royale is a powerful affiliate tracking and management tool for businesses that want to start their own affiliate program.

You can use it to set up your affiliate program in a few minutes. With Affiliate Royale, you can monitor affiliate clicks, sales, and payments.

It is highly compatible with popular platforms like MemberPress, PayPal, WooCommerce, Authorize.net, and more.

Alternative: AffiliateWP

We hope this article helped you find the best affiliate marketing tools and plugins for WordPress. You may also want to check our handpicked list of the best live chat software and best WordPress plugins to grow your website.

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October 08, 2019 at 06:00PM