One quick and easy way to add affiliate disclosures to your WordPress blog

Need to add an affiliate disclosure to your blog, but hate having to copy and paste it into each post? Learn how to make the process easy and painless.

If you make use of affiliate links in your blog posts, having a proper affiliate disclaimer in your blog posts is a necessity…if you want to stay out of legal trouble, that is. 😉

Most bloggers just copy and paste their affiliate disclosure into their posts. While this works well enough—assuming you don’t accidentally forget to add it before publishing your post, oops!—there are much better ways of covering your legal bases in your blog posts.

How to add affiliate disclosures to your WordPress blog posts without having to copy and paste

So, how can you add your affiliate disclosure statement to your blog posts easily and painlessly?

By using a blogging system!

In this context, I’m using “blogging system” to refer to a WordPress plugin that helps you take care of some of the more menial tasks on your blog, like adding those pesky affiliate disclosures.

What are the benefits of using a plugin to handle your affiliate disclaimer?

• You can add your affiliate disclosure in one place, then just click a button to decide where you want to display it.
• You can choose to display your disclosure across all posts with the flip of a switch: no need to copy and paste it manually into each post.
• If you need to update your disclosure text in the future, all you have to do is edit your settings: no need to go back through all of your existing content.
• There’s no risk of accidentally forgetting to add your disclosure or mistakenly putting it in the wrong place.
• Your disclosure automatically appears in the same place and with the same formatting on each post it displays on.

Sounds amazing, am I right?

How to use EBB’s affiliate disclosures module

Did you know that the full version of Easier Business Blogging includes an affiliate disclaimer plugin?

It totally does: the Affiliate Disclosures module. And in this post, I’ll teach you exactly how to use it to simplify your blog’s affiliate marketing efforts.

Important: Before you begin, make sure you have the full version of Easier Business Blogging (not just EBB Pinterest) installed and activated. If you don’t own a copy of EBB yet, you can get special presales pricing on it right here or by clicking the “get the plugin” link in the navigation above.

Step one: set up your affiliate disclosure text

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
2. In the lefthand menu, click “Easier Business Blogging” under Settings.
3. Add your desired affiliate disclosure to EBB’s Global settings section.
4. Save changes.

Step two: turn on affiliate disclosures

If you’d like to enable affiliate disclosures for all posts:

1. In the lefthand menu, click “Easier Business Blogging” under Settings.
2. In the “Default” settings section, turn on the “Show affiliate disclosures on posts by default?” setting.
3. Save changes.

If you’d like to enable affiliate disclosures for one post at a time:

1. Open the edit page for the post you’d like to add the disclosure to.
2. Below the post content, look for a metabox titled “Affiliate – Easier Business Blogging”.
3. Turn on the “Display affiliate disclosure” setting.
4. Save your post.

It’s really that easy.

If you’re ready to stop the copy-and-paste madness that comes along with strategic blogging, give adding a blogging system to your process a serious think. They can help with much more than affiliate disclosures—EBB handles hidden Pinterest images and opt-ins, too!—and greatly affect how quick and easy it is to get new content published.

Grab the presales version of EBB for a special price now >>

Not quite ready to take the leap into the full version of EBB, but want to dip your toes into the world of blogging systems?

About the Author: Megan Garwood

Hey there! I'm Megan, the brains behind Easier Business Blogging. I'm also a website strategist & web developer for brand designers. I love to use all the knowledge and experience I've acquired over the years to help business owners get websites that truly serve them well. On a more personal note, I'm a military spouse currently living life in Alaska with my sweet three-year old son and giant Newfoundland puppy. I like to play video games, read, drink soda, and watch Teen Mom (I'm basically a teenager in a twenty-something's body).

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