Append UTM Campaign Parameters to Related Links

The plugin uses the standard WordPress the_permalink for the links. How are you applying it for external links?

One way that I’m thinking of is using jQuery potentially to replace the links within the class crp_related with that code.

Please see an example of something similar: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2805742/how-to-update-append-to-an-href-in-jquery

It is simply added to the end of the permalink. For example: https://www.site.com/123456/some_random_title/%2F%3Futm_source%3Dmysite%26utm_medium%3Drelatedposts%26utm_campaign%3Dinternal

Its static info that tells analytics where the link came from.

Hi, that’s right, but there isn’t an easy way to do it with CRP yet. I’m going to add a filter in the new version since this has been requested by a few other users as well.

Right now the best option would be to either use jquery to append the tracking part to the permanent or alternatively do a find and replace with regex on the get_crp filter. Am afraid I’m not well versed in regex to give you the right code for this.

So I figured it out. In output-generator.php I modified three lines of code on lines 271, 274 and 293.

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink( $result->ID ) . '" ' . $link_attributes . ' class="crp_title">' . $title . '</a>';

I changed to:

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink( $result->ID ) . '<strong>?utm_source=mysite&utm_medium=relatedposts&utm_campaign=internal</strong>" ' . $link_attributes . ' class="crp_title">' . $title . '</a>';

And everything seems to be working correctly.

Just wanted to put this out there for anyone who wants to do the same, and I think this would be a valuable option to add in the setting since I am sure this will not survive an update.

Webby, that is a good fit for now, but not a permanent solution. I’m goign to make some changes in the future version to make it easier to filter the posts

Youll have a cleaner and more elegant solution then