How To Add Coupon Section In WordPress

Most bloggers are staring their blog to make money online. They prefer Google AdSense or Media.net ads as a monetization method. It’s pretty simple. All you need is an ad management plugin for adding ads and monitor the performance.

Well, display ads are not the only way to make money from a website. We are talking about affiliate marketing.

In our experience, affiliate marketing is the best method to make money from the website. There are so many affiliate programs available like ShareASale, WP Engine affiliate, and SendinBlue affiliate. In this post, we are going to show you that, how can you add coupon section in WordPress blog and make more money!

Why You Need a Coupon Section?

Have you seen our deals section?

There are so many coupons available. Here’s the catch.

Most affiliate programs will offer some coupons for a time. As an affiliate marketer, it’s your great chance to increase your affiliate sales.

Here’s a screenshot from the Namecheap web hosting hosted in the ShareASale affiliate network.

You can see the same deal in our Namecheap coupon. Our users are thanking us for providing such coupons. They will get around 50% discount on the purchase using the coupons. We will get a percentage of the sale.

Coupon Section Pros

More Affiliate Sales.More Page Views.Simple Customization.

Coupon Section Cons

Time Consuming.

How To Add Coupon Section In WordPress

There are 3 methods available.

• Using a coupon theme.
• Creating custom post types.
• By using a coupon plugin – best method.

We recommend you choose a coupon plugin for creating the section. You don’t need to change your theme or create custom post types. Plugin method is the best and simple method.

WP Coupons is our favorite plugin.

WP Coupons Pros

Customizable.Custom Archive Template.Custom Single Post Template.Additional CSS Styling.Easy To Use.

WP Coupons Cons

Premium.

So, let’s get started.

First of all, you need to get the plugin, WP Coupons. It’s a premium plugin made by the folks behind Kinsta.

Go to the pricing page. The cheap license will costs around $34 a year.

You can use our WP Coupons discount code for a charming discount. You need to choose a plan. If you just got a single site, you just need the personal plan. Buy the personal plan.

You need to enter your account details. This is for creating an account on the website. At this time, they will accept payment via,

• Credit Card.
• PayPal.

Choose your preferred method and purchase the WP Coupons plugin. Once you got purchased the plugin, you can download the plugin from your account.

Installing and Activating WP Coupons

Once you downloaded WP Coupons, you need to install it in your blog. For that, go to add new plugins section, choose the plugin file from your local device storage and install it.

After installing, activate the plugin.

In your dashboard, you can see the WP Coupons post type. From there, you can add new coupons or edit existing ones. By default, the plugin will create a sample coupon.

Before creating coupons, you may want to customize the plugin settings. Under WordPress settings, you can see the plugin settings. Go there.

The default configurations are good enough. If you wish to change the archive URL, edit it. By default, your archive URL will be like /coupons/. In our case, we have changed it to /deals/.

Simply ass the new slug in the archive URL field.

Select where you need to display the related coupons. Also, style them according to your theme. You must show related coupons under every single coupon.

Simply save the changes.

Now, go to the styling option. Choose the colors and fonts from there. Once you got customized, save it.

For receiving automatic updates and support, you just need a valid license key. Enter your license key and receive automatic updates.

Every license keys are valid for 1 year. Once you got configured the plugin, you can add new coupons.

Coupon Creation

Go to the coupons post type. Delete the default coupon from there.

Now, you need to add a new coupon.

Give a title for your coupon, add some contents assign the coupon with a type. Here, types will act like categories.

So, let’s add the coupon details and the affiliate link in the post type. Below the content area, you can see the WP Coupons plugin settings for adding coupon details. Also, add a featured image.

Make sure that you are using Yoast SEO and your on-page SEO score is good. For this demo blog, we are not using any plugins.

While adding discount URL, you must consider the ThirstyAffiliates plugin for link cloaking. For a detailed guide about link clock, you should check out our guide how to cloak affiliate links in WordPress.

Once you got added a featured image and added coupon details, publish the coupon. Check it from the front end.

You can publish unlimited coupons like this. Make sure that you have added nofollow tag for the affiliate links. So, search engines will not follow and index them.

You can see all your coupons in your archive page.

Add more coupons that you want and make more affiliate sales.

Conclusion

This is how you can add coupon section in WordPress. If you have an email list, you can promote these offers to them. All you need is an email marketing service like SendinBlue, AWeber, Constant Contact or GetResponse.

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