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Customizing Pretty Link Options – Part 3

by Blair Williams · Jun 9, 2009

Are you ready to see some of the most powerful Pretty Link options in action? Well, this is the third and final tutorial on pretty link options — don't worry you can come back next week to find a new tutorial on another section in the Pretty Link WordPress Plugin:

Filed Under: Pretty Link, Tutorials Tagged With: parameter forwarding, pretty-link, tracking, Tutorials, url, Wordpress

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  1. J France says

    June 9, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    param forwading is my favorite feature in pretty link . I have affiliates that come to a custom pag and without prettylink this would be hard

  2. toine says

    June 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    Ok
    This is some stuff to use
    thnx

  3. scott says

    July 3, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    great program, works great.
    i’m having a problem tracking conversions for my ppc offers. this is a link i use, what type of forward should be used with it:
    http://www.affiliatecompany.com/af.php?o=sdfsdfb=r5p5c3rd&p=38299&l=1&s=

    thanks!

  4. scott says

    July 3, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    this is the link, looks like your page stripped out the php
    http://www.affiliatecompany.com/af.php?o=sdfsdfb=r5p5c3rd&p=38299&l=1&s=

    • Blair Williams says

      July 20, 2009 at 11:20 am

      I’d use parameter forwarding to pass the custom data to your target url. You could set this up using standard or custom parameter forwarding.

  5. punzer says

    July 17, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    thanks for great plugin,but I want to ask 1 thing.how do we can delete unused pretty link,plz send it to my email.thx b4

    • Blair Williams says

      July 20, 2009 at 11:17 am

      If you hover over the link name then you’ll see a delete link appear. Just click on that and you can delete the pretty link.

  6. Dee says

    August 12, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    I’m just curious about the link shrinking. I heard you say you can use pretty link instead of bit.ly but I haven’t been able to figure out how to shrink the links inside of WP.

    • Blair Williams says

      August 12, 2009 at 10:12 pm

      Have you installed Pretty Link? Have you logged into your admin and clicked “Pretty Link” -> “Add a New Pretty Link” ? That’s all you need to do 🙂 … Let me know if you have any other issues.

  7. Bryan Bull says

    October 6, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Fantastic work, Blair! I just love this wonderful WordPress Plug-in! And your video tutorial is very helpful! You made my day!

  8. ted sikkink says

    October 20, 2009 at 8:44 am

    really fabulous plugin!, excellent video tutorials too, if only the other plugin makers would be as professional as you the wordl would be a better place..
    reg
    ted

  9. Jan says

    November 2, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    I watched all four videos and I didn’t understand a word. Um, do I make the link and then replace the link in the post with the pretty link? I do all my redirects so far using php files. Is there a way to cloak affiliate links using pretty links that’s easier? I vaguely get the sense that’s what’s going on here but you didn’t give even one example of an affiliate link.

  10. Jan Michalicka says

    August 12, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    I have problems with Custom Parameter Forwarding. I’d like to setup link:
    http://elancetraffic.com/be/%f%
    to be forwarded to:
    http://elancetraffic.com/bttb/?f=…

    When I watched your video, after you used Custom Parameters Forwarding, the query string was attached at the end of the slug, but it is not like that on my Pretty Link version 1.4.49.

    When I try e.g. http://elancetraffic.com/be/Jan
    my wordpress returns 404, however when I use http://elancetraffic.com/be
    without parameters, it works.

    Where is the problem?

    I can record you a video to explain thin in more details.
    Thanks.

    • cartpauj says

      August 15, 2010 at 2:22 pm

      Jan I think there is a bug in the Custom Parameter forwarding optoins. I will let Blair know and hopefully he’ll get a ticket in place to look into this issue soon.

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