Can I use the WP Affiliate Platform Plugin on a Standalone HTML page?

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WP Affiliate plugin is a WordPress plugin so it can only be used with a WordPress site (just like any other WordPress plugin). It will not work on a standalone HTML page.

WordPress plugins do not work outside of WordPress. Can you use your Akismet plugin from one install to block spams on another WordPress install? No. The plugin only works in the same WordPress install where the plugin is also installed.

Don’t use plain HTML pages (the days of using plain HTML pages are over). You are using WordPress for a reason and WordPress has a superior method of creating sales/landing pages. Its called “Custom page template”. This following article will explain more:

How to Create and use Custom Page Template in WordPress to Create a Sales Page

Here is a video tutorial showing how to create a custom WordPress page template:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-create-a-custom-wordpress-page-template-video-tutorial-3918

Essentially it will be just like your stand alone sales page but it will be part of your WordPress installation so WordPress will be able to execute plugin codes in this page. When you create sales pages using the above method in WordPress all the plugins that are installed in this WordPress will be able to work on that sales page (for example: tracking your Google Analytics) and the affiliate plugin will automatically work.

If you just create a stand alone HTML page (sale-page.html) and keep it somewhere on your site, the WordPress system does not know its existence and WordPress plugins can’t perform tasks on resources that is not part of WordPress.

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