There is something that I know has been a big hole in the WordPress community and most particularly in the SEO/Marketing/Make Money Blogging Crowd… The ability to have users, refer other users, and have those referrals tracked inside wordpress.
There are all kinds of tools for affiliate linking… sell other people's crap on your blog with links…
But there is no Affiliate Tracking plugin for WP or WPMU…
I need this for my new site, http://PlanetGreenCentral.com/ which I intend to setup as a profit sharing WPMU site dedicated to the environment, But I know I don't have the knowledge of how to do nice backend dashboard pages or database integration.
I have however found a solution, but I need help coding it… (remember the brickmeister?)
there is a free open source web application called Plus-Affiliate… it allows people to signup to your site and become affiliates, where their username is their affiliate code… it tracks who referred whom, multiple levels deep (or who purchased what), allowing the owner to assign values (credits or cash) for each new referral (can also track sales if you sell something on your blog)
Having looked into the core of the plus affiliate application, a trimmed down and slightly reorganized version of plus-affiliate could be turned into a wp or wpmu plugin, simply by replacing the heavy duty database mechanics in the program to the simpler WP data routines, and by replacing the direct calls to admin and user pages, to dashboard admin menus and user info pages.
This type of plugin would be worth making as a premium (pay) plugin and could easily become a major cost offset to SPF (which could also become a premium plugin by it's self at this point)
I desperately need this plugin, but i have no time to build it myself, and no money to pay a developer. You have done such a good job with SPF that, minus a copy for my sites. I would feel like I've helpped, by giving you all the credit and allow you to sell or list the plugin for download here, or on your stuff.YellowSwordfish site.
