Dynamically inserting keywords into Wordpress posts?

[ImagesAndWords]

Lately I have been having serious trouble with super-high bids and fucked up QS on Adwords, which I talked more about here.

What I want to do now is to build a Wordpress based platform for my revamped affiliate site. My previous version of it was purely php-driven, with a database for tracking ids.

I'm gonna skip the tracking part of it for now. Right now I just wanna get my site live with Adwords again and shoot for a non-insane quality score.

I have ran into a problem with Wordpress though:
I want to grab parameters from the post URL and insert the parameter as a variable dynamically into my WP posts and/or pages.

So that when I call one of my blog posts like this:

hxxp://www.mybadblog.com/landingpage-post.php?keyword=quality score my ass

…I can then grab the keyword using $_GET and insert it where I want to in the post or tags dynamically.

As many of you probably know though, Wordpress doesn't natively support php in posts. There are workarounds to this, most notably with a plugin such as exec-PHP

This will let me do simple things like

<?php echo "This is the Exec-PHP 'Hello World'"; ?>

But it doesn't work with statements like

<?php echo ucwords(str_replace("-", " ", $_GET["keyword"])); ?>

WP doesn't accept that but instead comes up with "Sorry, there are no posts that match your criteria"

Does anyone know how to pull this off?
I would be very thankful! :bowdown:

Ideally, I would also love to be able to insert the keyword into the post Title or even Meta description but that might be even trickier..

 

[plepco]

Quick response (without me taking the time to really really research it) is: you have to hook into that functionality of WordPress.

Basically, make a function that pulls the $_GET variable. Then, tell WP about your brand new function like....

add_action ( 'hook_name', 'your_function_name', [priority], [accepted_args] );

PLay around with that and I have faith in your abilities to eventually get it working. (I just don't have time right now...some parades are about to start and I have to go...it's Mardi Gras here in New Orleans....)

 

[dubber609]

I'm not sure if this will work for you, but why not skip messing with the WP loop and do something like this.

<?php
$kw = $_GET['keyword'];
$data = file_get_contents('wp-landingpage');
$data = str_replace('-', $kw, $data);
echo $data;
?>

This way you don't have to piss around with WP's code and if you wanna change the Meta tags and title it will also be easy.

 

[chrisr]

I have run into similar problems with exec-php. the simplest thing for me was just to hack up the post template with the PHP I wanted and then go from their. Not as elegant as building a WP function to do it, but still works.

 

[ImagesAndWords]

Quick response (without me taking the time to really really research it) is: you have to hook into that functionality of WordPress.

Basically, make a function that pulls the $_GET variable. Then, tell WP about your brand new function like....

add_action ( 'hook_name', 'your_function_name', [priority], [accepted_args] );

PLay around with that and I have faith in your abilities to eventually get it working. (I just don't have time right now...some parades are about to start and I have to go...it's Mardi Gras here in New Orleans....)

That's interesting. I'm afraid my php skills aren't quite that advanced yet though. :anon.sml:

Maybe someone would be willing to code it for me for $$$

 

[jryan21]

I am experimenting with this plugin for 404 and maybe 301:

SEO Boost from 404 Plugin? Focus on humans

I'm not sure yet how much it would need to be hacked up for a page that exists, but it does grab keywords from the url.

 

[pcallisto]

There are a couple of plugins that you might be able to hack up to do what you want, Ubernyms is the one that I remember at the moment, though it's a bit out of date. Ubernyms: the ultimate text-replacement plugin.