Title: Simple Promo Code
Author: Peter Wooster
Published: <strong>February 14, 2012</strong>
Last modified: December 16, 2013

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# Simple Promo Code

 By [Peter Wooster](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pkwooster/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-promo-code.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-promo-code/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-promo-code/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-promo-code/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-promo-code/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-promo-code/)

## Description

This plugin allows editors to request a promo code and optional email address from
users to get access to a document and track its usage.

_Features for Editors_

 * a short code [promo] is provided that will display a form that requests a
    promo
   code and optionally an email address from your users and then takes them to a
   url.
 * a summary of the accesses using this code is displayed to editors by the short
   code
 * editors can clear the logging from the short code
 * there is no back end admin page

_Short Code Arguments are:_

 * code= a string that must be entered access the document, required
 * document= a url to the document that you want to track, required
 * name= the name to display for the document, required
 * email= ‘yes’ to request the user’s email
 * id= the id on the form tag, useful for CSS, default is ‘promo’
 * promolabel= the label for the promo code input field, default is ‘Please enter
   promo code for name’
 * emaillabel= the label for the email input field, default is ‘Please enter your
   email address’
 * liststyle= the style or class for the ul, default is ‘style=”list-style:none”‘

## Installation

 1. Use the Plugins, Add New menu in WordPress to install the plugin or upload the `
    simple-promo-code` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. add the [promo] short code where required

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Promo Code” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Peter Wooster ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pkwooster/)

[Translate “Simple Promo Code” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-promo-code)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-promo-code/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-promo-code/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-promo-code/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-promo-code/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Test for WordPress 3.8 – new wp-admin interface

#### 1.0

 * First release.

#### 1.0.1

 * Update readme

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.7.41**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-promo-code/)
 * Tags
 * [promo](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/promo/)[short code](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/short-code/)
   [tracking](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tracking/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-promo-code/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Peter Wooster ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pkwooster/)

## Support

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