Downline Builder
Or also called as network builder. And we introduced this feature in DAP v4.4.
We call it DAP “Upline” – basically a shortcode called [DAPUpline] that allows you (site admin) to display the person’s upline’s affiliate code to the person. So in effect, it is a downline builder.
1) John joins your site
2) John fills out profile with (say) his ClickBank nickname
3) John refers Adam
4) When Adam logs in, he sees affiliate link to some xyz third party product, but CB nick in the affiliate link is replaced with John’s CB nickname.
5) Adam fills out his profile with his own CB nickname
6) Adam refers Jill
7) When Jill logs in, she sees affiliate link to same third party product, but cbnickname is replaced with Adam’s CB nickname.
This can be done with any number of third-party programs, as long as the nickname can be easily replaced with the info provided by the upline affiliate.
DAP even takes this one step further.
When Jill joins through Adam’s DAP affiliate link, if Adam has not filled out his CB nickname in his profile, then the third-party CB link shows CB Nickname of Site Admin in its place.
So if an affiliate fails to claim his affiliate link, then site admin gets credit for it (and all such links).
Here’s the documentation for [DAPUpline]
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[DAPUpline]
[DAPUpline]
[DAPUpline] is basically a WordPress shortcode that you can insert into WordPress pages and posts. It allows you (DAP admin) to display the member’s upline affiliate’s data to the member.In simple terms, it shows a user their referring Affiliate’s (a.k.a Sponsor’s) information. It could also be called a downline builder.
And you can display any data from the member’s affiliate profile, on a page.
So when a user visits the page that has this shortcode, it will determine who the visitor/member’s affiliate is, from…
1) Affiliate Cookie (if it exists), or
2) If they’re already a member, and have logged in to DAP, then it will show their current Affiliate’s information. Or,
3) If neither the cookie is set, nor the user has an Affiliate attached to their account already in DAP, then it will show the info of the DAP Admin.
So you can use it to show the user information of the person (affiliate) who referred them to the page.
Think of it as a “Your Sponsor” tag.
Consider this example:
1) John joins your site
2) John fills out his profile with (say) his ClickBank nickname
3) John later refers Adam
4) When Adam logs in, he sees affiliate link to some third-party product, but CB nickname in the affiliate link is replaced with John’s CB nickname. So if Adam goes on to purchase that third-party CB product, then John will get the affiliate commissions for that purchase.
5) Now Adam fills out his profile with his own CB nickname
6) Adam refers Jill
7) When Jill logs in, she sees affiliate link to same third party product, except this time, the CB nickname is replaced with Adam’s CB affiliate nickname.
This can be done with any number of third-party programs, as long as the nickname can be easily replaced with the info provided by the upline affiliate. And it’s not just one field – you can create multiple profile fields for the affiliate to fill out – like ClickBankNick, CommissionJunctionNick, JVZooId, GoogleAnalyticsId, etc.
DAP actually even takes this one step further.
When Jill joins through Adam’s DAP affiliate link, if Adam has not filled out his CB nickname in his profile, then the third-party CB link shows CB Nickname of Site Admin in its place.
So if an affiliate fails to claim his affiliate link, then site admin gets credit for it (and all such links).
Hope this helps.
For eg., to show affiliate’s first name on a page, insert this into page:
[DAPUpline showField="first_name"]
Full list of available fields from sponsor’s or affiliate’s profile:
[DAPUpline showField="first_name"]
[DAPUpline showField="last_name"]
[DAPUpline showField="user_name"]
[DAPUpline showField="email"]
[DAPUpline showField="address1"]
[DAPUpline showField="address2"]
[DAPUpline showField="city"]
[DAPUpline showField="state"]
[DAPUpline showField="zip"]
[DAPUpline showField="country"]
[DAPUpline showField="phone"]
[DAPUpline showField="fax"]
[DAPUpline showField="company"]
[DAPUpline showField="title"]
[DAPUpline showField="paypal_email"]
Showing Custom fields:
[DAPUpline showField="custom_"]
Eg: To show affiliate’s/sponsor’s custom SSN field (say “ssn”):
[DAPUpline showField="custom_ssn"]
NOTE: You should’ve already created the custom field “ssn” before you can do this, of course.
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[DAPUserProfile]
This post is dedicated just to the [DAPUserProfile] shortcode. To see the rest of the DAP Shortcodes, click here.
[DAPUserProfile]
This is the shortcode that displays all of the user profile fields on a page. Simply enter it on a WordPress page, save it, and when you view it when logged in as a user, it will display the DAP user profile form, with the logged-in user’s information displayed in the form fields.
As DAP Admin, you can customize which profile fields to show to your members, and which ones to hide. Just set the profile field that you don’t want displayed, to “N” in the tag below.
Default version
[DAPUserProfile showFirstName="Y" showLastName="Y" showUserName="Y" showEmail="Y" showPassword="Y" showAddress1="Y" showAddress2="Y" showCity="Y" showState="Y" showZip="Y" showCountry="Y" showPhone="Y" showFax="Y" showCompany="Y" showTitle="Y" showPaypalEmail="Y" showOptedOut="Y" showCustomFields="Y"]
Default is "Y". So Leaving out the text (for eg.) showLastName="Y" entirely from the shortcode, is the same as setting it "Y", which means it will be displayed.
Entering just [DAPUserProfile] into a page, will show ALL fields.
Show All Fields Except Phone & Fax
To hide just Phone and Fax, you would do something like this:
[DAPUserProfile showPhone="N" showFax="N"]
So all other fields will be displayed, except those two.
Show Just A Few
To show (say) just First, Last, Username, Password and Email, this is the shortcode:
[DAPUserProfile showFirstName="Y" showLastName="Y" showUserName="Y" showEmail="Y" showPassword="Y" showAddress1="N" showAddress2="N" showCity="N" showState="N" showZip="N" showCountry="N" showPhone="N" showFax="N" showCompany="N" showTitle="N" showPaypalEmail="N" showOptedOut="Y" showCustomFields="N"]
Related: [DAPUserLinks] shortcode
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[DAPUserLinks]
This post is dedicated just to the [DAPUserLinks] shortcode. To see the rest of the DAP Shortcodes, click here.
[DAPUserLinks]
This is the shortcode that shows the user a list of all of the products that they have access to, and details about each product – like name, description, links that have already been dripped, etc.
This is similar to %%USERLINKS%%, but more advanced and more customizable.
You can customize most of the elements of this shortcode, as shown below.
You can even customize this to show details of a specific product (instead of all products).
Full Version
[DAPUserLinks showProductName="Y" showAccessStartDate="Y" showAccessEndDate="Y" showDescription="Y" showLinks="Y" orderOfLinks="NEWESTFIRST" howManyLinks="10000" errMsgTemplate="SHORT" productId="ALL" dateFormat="YYYY-MM-DD" showProductCount="Y" hideProductId="3,4"]
Most of the elements are self-explanatory. Here are a couple explained in detail.
orderOfLinks
orderOfLinks can have one of two values…
NEWESTFIRST will drip newly dripped links at the top. So day 7 link will be above day 1 link.
OLDESTFIRST will drip newly dripped links towards the bottom. So day 1 link will be above day 7 link.
showProductCount
showproductcount=”N” will disable the heading “You have access to (X) products” at the top of the “My Content” section.
So, here’s another version of the DAPUserLinks shortcode that shows oldest links at th top, and does not show the product-count heading.
[DAPUserLinks showProductName="Y" showAccessStartDate="Y" showAccessEndDate="Y" showDescription="Y" showLinks="Y" orderOfLinks="OLDESTFIRST" howManyLinks="10000" errMsgTemplate="SHORT" productId="ALL" dateFormat="YYYY-MM-DD" showproductcount="N"]
productId
productId is by default set to “ALL” which means details for all products that a user has access to, will be displayed on that page. You can also configure it to show for just one product (productId="8") or a few select products (productId="8,11").
hideproductid
This was introduced in DAP v4.5. It allows you to suppress all listed product id’s (either just one, or multiple product id’s separated by commas) from being displayed in the list.
[DAPUserLinks ... hideproductid="3" ...]
Related: [DAPUserProfile] shortcode
Customizing User Profile Fields
The old shortcode for displaying the user profile on a page, was %%USERLINKS%% which just displayed the entire user profile with all fields, without the ability to customize which fields to show.
That one is still valid. But starting DAP v4.4.3, we have a new shortcode to display userprofile.
[DAPUserProfile]
Allows you to selectively display profile fields on a page. Entering just the shortcode [DAPUserProfile] within a WP page, will show the default user profile form with all default fields being displayed.
So entering just [DAPUserProfile] on a pagem is the same as entering the full version below:
[DAPUserProfile showFirstName=”Y” showLastName=”Y” showUserName=”Y” showEmail=”Y” showPassword=”Y” showAddress1=”Y” showAddress2=”Y” showCity=”Y” showState=”Y” showZip=”Y” showCountry=”Y” showPhone=”Y” showFax=”Y” showCompany=”Y” showTitle=”Y” showPaypalEmail=”Y” showOptedOut=”Y” showCustomFields=”Y”]Not Show Certain Fields
Just set the profile field that you don’t want shown to “N” in the shortcode.
Default is “Y”. So Leaving out the text showLastName=”Y” entirely from the shortcode, is the same as setting it “Y”, which means it will be displayed.
To NOT SHOW Phone and Fax
[DAPUserProfile showPhone=”N” showFax=”N”]So all other fields will be displayed, except those two.
To SHOW just First Name, Last Name and Email
[DAPUserProfile showFirstName=”Y” showLastName=”Y” showUserName=”N” showEmail=”Y” showPassword=”N” showAddress1=”N” showAddress2=”N” showCity=”N” showState=”N” showZip=”N” showCountry=”N” showPhone=”N” showFax=”N” showCompany=”N” showTitle=”N” showPaypalEmail=”N” showOptedOut=”N” showCustomFields=”N”]To SHOW just Password field
[DAPUserProfile showFirstName=”N” showLastName=”N” showUserName=”N” showEmail=”N” showPassword=”Y” showAddress1=”N” showAddress2=”N” showCity=”N” showState=”N” showZip=”N” showCountry=”N” showPhone=”N” showFax=”N” showCompany=”N” showTitle=”N” showPaypalEmail=”N” showOptedOut=”N” showCustomFields=”N”](both main password field and repeat password will always be displayed together)
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Creating Member-specific Content
If you have a coaching program, or have clients for whom you’re doing custom work (like if you were a teacher, CPA, web designer, personal trainer or coach) and wish to publish content that is available to and downloadable by only that specific client/student/customer, then there are THREE ways in which you can do Member-Specific Content in DAP.
1) BEST SOLUTION: Using a combination of a special page for each member PLUS DAP’s “For Your Eyes Only” Shortcode
2) Creating Separate Products for each Member
3) Using DAP’s “For Your Eyes Only” Shortcode
Let’s take a look at each one in detail.
SOLUTION #1: BEST OPTION: Special page for each member PLUS DAP’s “For Your Eyes Only” Shortcode
This is partly manual, partly automated, but is the absolute best solution for multiple reasons, as explained below.
1) For each new member, you would create a separate page. So, for Joe Customer, you would create a new page in WP – http://YourSite.com/joe-customer/
This page would be created after someone has become a member, of course. But creating a WP page for every member will probably take you about what, 30 seconds? So it’s not going to be a big deal (unless you wish to make it one 😉
2) Then, assuming Joe Customer’s “userid” in DAP is 144 (you can find this out on the Users > Manage page). So within the above new page, you would add the following shortcode…
[DAP userId=”144″]protected content[/DAP]
(See DAP’s “Member-Specific Content” Shortcodes )
3) You can start adding any amount of private content between the shortcode start and end tags (where you see protected content above).
4) You can use a simple, free plugin like Exclude Pages to make sure the customer’s page http://YourSite.com/joe-customer/ does not show up in any of your menu’s. Even if it did, it’s not like anyone else can see the contents of the page – only Joe Customer – after he’s logged in to DAP – can see the contents of the page. So it’s secure from everyone else.
Solution #2: Separate Products for each Member
Here, you would create separate products, one per member – and only give that member access to that product. The advantage here, is that you can protect the entire page (not just the content section) and make it available just to that one client, so you can be a lot more creative with this page, use special templates, add sidebar widgets that show content just for that client, use the commenting system to communicate back and forth with the client.
So if you had a client named John Customer, then you would create a DAP Product by name “John Customer”, then take John’s email id and give John access to his product.
And within this DAP Product, you would’ve protected files, pages and posts that only John should get access to. So since only John has access to the product, only he can get access to the content protected as part of this product.
Obviously, it takes a few minutes of additional setup per customer to create a DAP Product specifically for him, but then the few extra minutes of creating a DAP Product would be nothing compared to the few hours (or tens of hours) that you’re actually going to be taking to create the actual custom content for John. So it’s a very small overhead compared to the whole process, where you are actually creating custom content for each member.
Solution #3: No special pages, just DAP’s “Member-Specific Content” Shortcode
If you wish to automated this a bit more than Option #2, then one way is to implement this is using DAP’s “Member-Specific Content” Shortcodes, which look like this:
Using the “userId” parameter in the DAP shortcode, you can now protect a piece of content so that only John Customer (who has the user id “144” in your membership site) user can see it.
[DAP userId=”144″]protected content[/DAP]
So on a single page, you may publish a number of these shortcodes, with content meant only for specific members protected within those shortcodes.
And doesn’t matter which one of your members visits the above page, they will all only see content intended only for them, and will be unable to see content intended for others.
So those are the three ways in which you can create Member-Specific Content.
Member-specific Chat Room
Using our WPChatR Chatroom plugin for WordPress, you can also create a separate page per user, then put a chat room on that page specific to that user, so you can have unlimited back-and-forth real-time or off-line chats with one specific member.
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Order Of Links On “My Links” page
[Updated 05/20/2012: Drag & Drop Re-ordering of links available since DAP v4.3.1]Ordering Links
The ordering of links in the ContentResponder tab of a product is required ONLY if you have a “My Content” page (see example below – page uses the merge tag %%USERLINKS%%) and you want control over exactly how those links are displayed in that list:
Fig 1: Example “My Content” page which uses the merge tag %%USERLINKS%%
Ordering by Drip Day
The easiest way to organize links, is to set the dripping “day” for each link.
So if you’re setting up 5 links to be available on Day #1, 2, 3,4 & 5, then in the “My Links” section, DAP will display the links in “Newest On Top” order.
So the newest link (Day #5) will appear first, followed by Day #4, and so on, until Day #1.
Ordering When There Is No Dripping
If you have multiple links that you’re making available all on the same day (like say, all on Day #1), then once you’ve added the links from left to right in the ContentResponder tab of your DAP Product, you can then hold down any row from the Protected Content section, drag and drop and re-order it however you wish to.
Remember that the drag-and-drop re-ordering will only work within different links that are all set to drip on the same day. So for eg., dragging a day 1 link above a day 4 link (see screenshot below) will not work, and it will simply come back to it original position after refreshing the screen. But dragging one Day #1 link above or below another Day #1 link will re-order the links exactly in that order.
Fig 2. Screenshot showing drag-and-drop reordering in action
If you see the links order in the above screenshot, that’s the exact same order in which the links will appear when the member views their “My Content” page (or whatever you have called the user links page).
[DAPUserLinks] Shortcode
If you want even more control over how many links are displayed, order of the links, date format etc, then consider our new shortcode shown below:
[DAPUserLinks showProductName=”N” showAccessStartDate=”Y” showAccessEndDate=”Y” showDescription=”Y” showLinks=”Y” orderOfLinks=”NEWESTFIRST” howManyLinks=”10000″ errMsgTemplate=”SHORT” productId=”ALL” dateFormat=”YYYY-MM-DD”]NOTE: orderOfLinks can have one of two values…
NEWESTFIRST will drip newly dripped links at the top. So day 7 link will be above day 1 link.
OLDESTFIRST will drip newly dripped links towards the bottom. So day 1 link will be above day 7 link.
So, here’s another version of the DAPUserLinks shortcode:
[DAPUserLinks showProductName=”N” showAccessStartDate=”Y” showAccessEndDate=”Y” showDescription=”Y” showLinks=”Y” orderOfLinks=”OLDESTFIRST” howManyLinks=”10000″ errMsgTemplate=”SHORT” productId=”ALL” dateFormat=”YYYY-MM-DD”]Related: See more such shortcodes at DAP Shortcodes