Make Money with phpOStock Wordpress Plugin as a Overstock Affiliate
phpOStock Review
Buy the new phpOStock Wordpress Plugin if you want to make money online as a CJ Overstock Affiliate. Sign up as an affiliate via Commission Junction and get the phpOStock plugin from Ben Johnson and you are all set!
Building affiliate websites with Wordpress is really easy and there are many great plugins to help make this task even easier. And phpOStock is no exception as it is easy to install (as all wp plugins are!) and configuration and use of this plugin in both pages and posts is really simple. Read this review to get a better idea of how you can benefit from this plugin.
Create an Affiliate Site in Less Than 1 Hour!
As soon as I bought the phpOStock plugin I decided to create a new affiliate site to see just how easy it was as Ben had already told me it would be really easy. And it was!
In well less than an hour I had built the following site: Gift Discovery (see image above)
To be honest had I already bought the domain name, but it only took a few minutes to create a new account in my Hostgator reseller account and switch the names servers to it. I then installed Wordpress using the Fantastico one-click install facility in cPanel and installed one of the twelve free themes that Ben supplies with the plugin.
In less than a minute I changed the logo in Photoshop (.psd file alos supplied!) and then spent the rest of the time learning how to use the plugin from the user manual and adding the code to the Wordpress pages and sidebar widget.
Really this was a quick process and just so easy to implement. Granted this is a thin affiliate site and I still need to add some useful content, but the site already looks really good and very professional. Impressive! Next time I build an Overstock affiliate site it will be even quicker.
Benefits of the Overstock Datafeed
The new phpOStock plugin works with the Overstock.com affiliate program, which has just been switched to Commission Junction at CJ.com, so make sure you are signed up with this program before building out your first site using this plugin. Overstock affiliates can earn up to 7% in commissions on sales generated with a payment threshold of just $10 and many online promotions to help you make more sales.
The plugin allows you to embed products from the datafeed right into your Wordpress pages and posts. You simply enter the keywords for the products you want to display and you can reduce the number of products returned by entering negative keywords to narrow your search criteria. If you have used the excellent phpBay Pro ebay products plugin you will find that phpOStock works in a very similar way.
The best part of displaying products from Overstock is that you can include many items that are expensive, but which are on sale at heavily discounted prices - a great selling point! There is also a vast range of different product types, many of them popular brand names, from electronics, jewelry, books, dvds to clothing, furniture, pet supplies and computer accessories for example and in fact there are over 600,000 different individual products to choose from.
See How It Works With The Lite Free Version
There is also a "Lite" version of the phpOStock plugin, which you can download for free, just to see how it works, and you can do this before you get your affiliate status confirmed by Overstock. I recommend you do this just to make sure that you get to learn how easy this plugin is to use.
phpOStock Feature Summary and Review
- Easily include live Overstock.com store listings into a Wordpress site using either posts or pages and a very simple short code string (eg [ phpostock ]ipod,10,,2762,,,10,100,,1,1,1,1[ /phpostock ] ).
- Search from many top level product categories and from literally thousands of sub categories to find the products you want to display.
- Includes a sidebar widget for easy display of overstock products in Wordpress sidebars
- You get a fully detail pdf User Manual and lifetime software upgrades to the plugin.
- Simple installation, configuration and use in Wordpress.
- This is a multi-site license to use on as many websites as you want.
Free WP eCommerce Wordpress Themes
As a bonus you also get for free 12 WP Commerce Wordpress Themes included with the plugin, as well as some extra template style sheets for displaying product listings.
These Wordpress themes are really excellent and are different color variations of a theme that works very well when selling products on an affiliate site. This theme pack normally sells on it's own for $27 and are worth the price of the plugin alone.
Buy phpOstock!
Currently the plugin sells for just $30 (yes, seriously!) and don't forget that you also get the free Worpdress Theme Pack and bonus listing templates thrown in. This is a real bargain!
Note: Before buying phpOStock you should check the web hosting requirements needed to ensure the plugin works smoothly. This should not be a problem but it is always best to check. I have used it with Hostgator and there were no problem whatsoever. You can download a test script that will check your hosting for you.










Hi there
Thanks for the great review of phpOStock, I am glad you liked it and the store you have built is looking great.
We have also added SEO URL’s to the plugin now so you can easily mask your affiliate links.
Cheers
Ben