Title: affilun
Author: rioriost
Published: <strong>June 30, 2026</strong>
Last modified: July 11, 2026

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# affilun

 By [rioriost](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rioriost/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/affilun.0.8.1.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/affilun/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/affilun/#developers)

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## Description

affilun is a WordPress plugin for managing affiliate product links used by Japanese
websites. It stores products from Amazon Associates, Rakuten Ichiba, Yahoo! Shopping,
Mercari, and other configured routes, then displays them as reusable product cards
in posts.

The local plugin features do not require a license key, trial, paid plan, or usage
quota. Product storage, product cards, provider settings, and basic affiliate-link
generation run within WordPress.

You can optionally connect affilun Cloud for managed AI assistance, article drafting,
link-health checks, campaign suggestions, affiliate-product suggestions, and plan
information. These optional features are external SaaS services processed by affilun
Cloud.

#### Main features

 * Store and manage affiliate product records in WordPress.
 * Display product cards with a Gutenberg block or shortcode.
 * Configure Amazon, Rakuten Ichiba, Yahoo! Shopping, Mercari, and ASP routing templates.
 * Generate a standard Amazon product-detail URL with the configured Partner Tag
   when an ASIN is stored.
 * Store button labels, display templates, link attributes, and provider display
   settings in WordPress.
 * Use optional Cloud features only when an affilun Cloud API key and eligible plan
   are configured.

#### affilun Cloud boundary

The plugin distributed through WordPress.org is a GPL-licensed WordPress plugin.
Local product management, product-card rendering, saved settings, and basic link
generation run within WordPress.

affilun Cloud is an optional external SaaS. Cloud features may include paid plans,
usage limits, plan checks, Stripe Checkout, Cloud API-key issuance, AI assistance,
article drafting, link-health checks, campaign suggestions, and affiliate-product
suggestions. Local plugin features remain available without affilun Cloud.

The affilun Cloud server implementation, billing system, hosted processing, and 
external API relay services are not included in this plugin package. See https://
affilun.st/ for Cloud terms, pricing, data retention, and deletion information.

### External Services

affilun communicates with an external service only when the related feature is configured
and used. Review each provider’s terms, privacy policy, and affiliate-program rules
before enabling it.

#### Amazon Creators API / Amazon Associates

Purpose: Amazon product search, product-data retrieval, and Partner Tag link generation.

Data sent when enabled: search terms, ASINs, marketplace, Creators API credentials,
and Partner Tag.

Terms: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/agreement

Privacy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496

#### Rakuten Ichiba API

Purpose: Rakuten Ichiba product search, product-data retrieval, and affiliate-link
generation.

Data sent when enabled: search terms, item IDs, Application ID, Access Key, Affiliate
ID, and the WordPress site’s Origin. The Access Key is sent in an HTTP header rather
than the URL.

Terms: https://webservice.rakuten.co.jp/guide/rule

Privacy: https://privacy.rakuten.co.jp/

#### Yahoo! Shopping API and ValueCommerce routing

Purpose: Yahoo! Shopping product search, product-data retrieval, and link generation.

Data sent when enabled: search terms, item IDs, Client ID, and related Yahoo! Shopping
settings. If a ValueCommerce free-text-link HTML snippet is configured, affilun 
extracts and stores only the `sid` and `pid` values needed for link generation.

Yahoo! JAPAN Developer Network guidelines: https://developer.yahoo.co.jp/guideline/

LY Corporation terms: https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/company/terms/

LY Corporation privacy policy: https://www.lycorp.co.jp/en/company/privacypolicy/

ValueCommerce terms: https://www.valuecommerce.ne.jp/st_affiliate/terms.html

ValueCommerce privacy policy: https://www.valuecommerce.co.jp/privacy_policy/

#### Mercari

Purpose: Generate Mercari search or product links containing a configured Mercari
Ambassador `afid`.

Data sent when enabled: search terms, Mercari URLs, and `afid`.

Visitor browser requests: when a saved Mercari product has no main image URL, a 
product card may load a Mercari Ambassador image from `ambassador-system.mercari.
com`.

Terms: https://static.jp.mercari.com/tos

Privacy: https://static.jp.mercari.com/privacy

#### affilun Cloud

Purpose: optional managed AI assistance, product-keyword normalization, article 
drafting, campaign suggestions, revenue-opportunity suggestions, affiliate-product
suggestions, link-health checks, plan checks, Cloud API-key validation, and usage
reporting.

Service endpoint: affilun Cloud uses `https://api.affilun.st/api/v1`. Legacy saved
endpoints at `https://cbl.rio.st` are normalized to the production affilun Cloud
endpoint.

Data sent when configured and used: site URL, site name, administrator email address,
Cloud API key, plan context, enabled provider keys, post excerpts or content needed
for the selected operation, product-link metadata, review-source URLs, and link-
health inputs.

The Free state is for connection checks. Managed Cloud features may require a paid
plan or Stripe trial because processing occurs on affilun Cloud servers.

Terms: https://affilun.st/cloud-subscription-terms/

Privacy: https://affilun.st/privacy/

#### Stripe Checkout

Purpose: payment flow for affilun Cloud plans.

Data sent when an administrator starts checkout: email address, site information,
selected plan, and checkout-session information.

Terms: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa

Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy

#### External product images

Product cards and administration previews may display product-image URLs saved in
WordPress. These URLs may point to provider, marketplace, affiliate-network, or 
CDN domains. When a page containing an external image is viewed, the visitor’s browser
sends a request to that domain, which may receive the visitor’s IP address, user
agent, referrer, and other request information.

#### Data stored in WordPress

affilun may store:

 * Provider settings, including Amazon credentials and Partner Tag, Rakuten credentials,
   Yahoo! credentials, Mercari `afid`, and enabled states.
 * Product records, including title, provider item ID, ASIN, price, availability,
   image URL, product URL, affiliate URL, synchronization state, and timestamps.
 * Display settings, including templates, button labels, link attributes, and display
   options.
 * ASP routing settings and URL templates.
 * affilun Cloud settings, including Cloud API key, site ID, endpoint, selected 
   plan, and connection state.
 * Operational data, including logs, sync jobs, audit events, link-health results,
   opportunity states, cached affiliate suggestions, local click events, and daily
   click/view aggregates.

API keys and affiliate identifiers are stored in the WordPress database and managed
by administrators. They are not rendered on public pages.

### ASP Routing

Yahoo! Shopping affiliate tracking is configured with a Yahoo Developer Client ID
and a ValueCommerce free-text-link HTML snippet. affilun extracts and stores only
the `sid` and `pid` values needed for link generation.

Advanced routing templates can also be configured for custom ASPs or migrations.
Templates may use placeholders such as `{url}`, `{encoded_url}`, `{provider}`, and`{
product_id}`.

When routing is enabled, a product-button URL may be transformed into the configured
intermediary ASP URL. The site operator is responsible for confirming that each 
template complies with the relevant ASP rules and tracking requirements.

### Uninstall

Deleting the plugin through WordPress runs `uninstall.php`.

The current uninstall policy removes secrets and operational options, including 
provider credentials, the affilun Cloud API key and connection settings, local click
aggregate options, cron cursors, worker IDs, and scheduled affilun cron hooks.

Custom tables containing products, logs, audits, synchronization data, link-health
data, analytics, and click aggregates are retained unless an explicit data-removal
option is introduced in a future release. Back up required data before deleting 
the plugin.

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   affilun / 商品カード affilun の単一商品リンクカードです。

## Installation

 1. Install affilun from the WordPress Plugins screen, or upload it to `/wp-content/
    plugins/affilun/`.
 2. Activate affilun in WordPress.
 3. Open the affilun settings screen.
 4. Configure only the affiliate providers and optional services you intend to use.
 5. Add an affilun product-card block in the block editor and select a saved product.

## FAQ

### Is WooCommerce required?

No. affilun manages affiliate product links and does not require WooCommerce.

### Is affilun Cloud required?

No. Product management, product cards, provider settings, and basic link generation
run locally in WordPress. Configure affilun Cloud only if you want its optional 
managed features.

### Is post or product content sent to an AI service?

Only when affilun Cloud is configured and you explicitly run a Cloud AI feature.
The plugin then sends the excerpts or product context needed for the selected operation
to affilun Cloud AI endpoints. It does not send post content to those endpoints 
when Cloud AI features are not configured or used.

AI output is a suggestion. Before publishing, the site operator must review accuracy,
affiliate-program rules, and applicable disclosure requirements.

### Can I use Amazon links without Amazon API eligibility?

Yes. When an Amazon ASIN is already stored, affilun can generate a standard product-
detail URL containing the configured Partner Tag. Amazon API eligibility is required
for product search and detailed product-data retrieval.

### Does affilun track visitors?

affilun may store local click events and daily aggregates for saved product cards
in the WordPress database. These records are for the site’s own administration and
reporting.

Local click records may include the provider, button key, target URL hash, product
ID, post ID, display variant, user-agent hash, referring host, and timestamp. affilun
does not send this local click data to affilun Cloud or an external analytics service.

Product cards may load saved image URLs from external provider or CDN domains. The
visitor’s browser may therefore send its IP address, user agent, referrer, and other
request information to that external service.

### Where are documentation and support available?

Documentation, support information, terms, and privacy information are available
at https://affilun.st/.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“affilun” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ rioriost ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rioriost/)

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## Changelog

#### 0.8.1

 * Added the WordPress site’s Origin header to Rakuten API requests so it can be
   checked against the Rakuten application’s allowed websites.
 * Added guidance for configuring the Rakuten application’s allowed websites.

#### 0.8.0

 * Migrated Rakuten Ichiba search to the current IchibaItem Search API 20260701.
 * Added the required Access Key setting and HTTP-header authentication.
 * Preserved legacy Rakuten settings while treating the provider as incomplete until
   an Access Key is entered.
 * Added current Rakuten error-envelope handling and prevented credential failures
   from marking individual products as broken.

#### 0.7.9

 * Added per-post diagnostics for queued Cloud AI scan failures.
 * Updated the WordPress.org listing and bundled readme.

#### 0.7.8

 * Moved bulk Cloud AI post scans to WP-Cron background processing.

#### 0.7.7

 * Updated post-usage search SQL to use an identifier placeholder for the posts 
   table.

#### 0.7.5

 * Prevented Mercari search during Cloud AI scans and stopped synthetic search-link
   results from being saved automatically.

#### 0.7.4

 * Prevented site link-color customization from overriding product-card button text
   colors.

#### 0.7.3

 * Preserved selected post IDs after request sanitization in bulk Cloud AI scans.
 * Added selected, scanned, skipped, and empty-selection counts to scan notices.

#### 0.7.2

 * Restored affilun administrator capabilities on admin load when activation processing
   was skipped during a manual update.

#### 0.7.1

 * Strengthened administration POST handlers, output escaping, SQL review coverage,
   and REST permission callbacks.

#### 0.7.0

 * Removed experimental locally gated features from the WordPress.org package.
 * Moved remaining administration JavaScript to the WordPress enqueue API.
 * Standardized WordPress identifiers on the `affilun` prefix.
 * Clarified that local features work without affilun Cloud.

#### 0.6.4

 * Added Cloud-assisted affiliate-scan evaluation and provider candidate ranking.

#### 0.6.3

 * Added Cloud Tools AI scans for posts without affiliate links and improved migration
   preview and rewrite workflows.

#### 0.6.2

 * Added import guidance for affiliate links detected in existing content and clarified
   CSV compatibility.

#### 0.6.1

 * Changed Cloud link-health checks to automatic daily batches and simplified product
   administration.

#### 0.6.0

 * Added optional affilun Cloud affiliate-product suggestions and local suggestion
   caching.

#### 0.5.6

 * Updated WordPress.org metadata, compatibility information, and external-service
   disclosures.

#### 0.5.5

 * Improved Cloud opportunity workflows, link-health persistence, plan displays,
   and administration security.

#### 0.5.4

 * Improved Cloud connections, provider settings, product workflows, packaging, 
   and verification.

#### 0.5.3

 * Added the initial product-card, provider, and release-candidate packaging features.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.8.1**
 *  Last updated **1 hour ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress Version ** 6.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.1**
 *  PHP Version ** 8.1 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/affilun/)
 * Tags
 * [affiliate](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/affiliate/)[amazon](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/amazon/)
   [product card](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/product-card/)[product links](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/product-links/)
   [rakuten](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rakuten/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/affilun/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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