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title: "Promo Cards in WordPress: Turn Affiliate Links into High Converting Product Boxes"
url: https://betterlinks.io/promo-cards-wordpress-betterlinks/
date: 2026-10-29T15:00:00+00:00
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# Promo Cards in WordPress: Turn Affiliate Links into High Converting Product Boxes

A plain affiliate link buried inside a paragraph rarely gets clicked. Readers skim past blue text without a second thought, and every missed click is a missed commission. What actually earns a tap is a proper product box, an image, a price and a clear button telling the reader exactly what to do next.

![Promo Cards in WordPress: Turn Affiliate Links into High Converting Product Boxes](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-11.png)

Promo Cards solves this by letting you build that product box in minutes, without leaving your WordPress dashboard and without touching a single line of code. In this guide, you will learn what Promo Cards is, why it matters and how to build and publish your first card step by step with **[BetterLinks](https://betterlinks.io/)**.

## **What Are Promo Cards?**

**[Promo Cards](https://betterlinks.io/features/)** is a card builder inside BetterLinks that instantly converts a standard affiliate URL into a high converting product box, complete with a custom image, pricing, a badge and a targeted call to action button. Instead of dropping a raw link into your content, you drop a finished, visual product card that gives readers everything they need to decide in one glance.

![What Are Promo Cards?](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-12.png)

What sets it apart from a generic product box plugin is that every button on the card is powered by a tracked BetterLinks short link. That means every click, every card, every post, gets captured in the same BetterLinks Analytics dashboard you already use for the rest of your links, so you always know which card is actually driving sales.

## **Why Product Boxes Matter for Affiliate Marketing**

Before jumping into setup, it helps to understand why this is worth doing at all. Visual product boxes consistently outperform plain text links because they give a reader the information they need without making them leave the page to go check. A price, a badge and a clear button do the persuading that a bare hyperlink cannot.

The problem most affiliate marketers run into is that building these boxes by hand usually means fiddling with page builder blocks, custom CSS or a separate plugin that has no idea what your link performance actually looks like. Promo Cards closes that gap, the card design and the click tracking live in the same place, so you are never guessing which of your product boxes is worth keeping and which one needs a new image or a better badge.

If you want that same tracked visibility across every other link on your site, pairing Promo Cards with regular **[link monitoring](https://betterlinks.io/how-to-monitor-website-links-automatically/)** keeps your whole affiliate strategy accountable.

## **Key Features of Promo Cards**

Promo Cards packs a full product box designer into BetterLinks, giving you the visual polish of a dedicated tool without leaving your plugin ecosystem. From product setup to click tracking, every piece is built to help the card actually convert.

A closer look at what the feature actually gives you:

- **Full product box designer:** Add a product name, image, description, badge and pricing, then watch the card build itself in a live preview panel.
- **Tracked call to action buttons:** Every Primary and optional Secondary button routes through a BetterLinks short link, so clicks show up automatically in your analytics.
- **Built in pricing display:** Set a Regular Price and a Sale Price, and the sale price is shown prominently while the regular price appears struck through.
- **Five ready templates:** Choose between Epsilon, Vega, Pollux, Sirius and Orion, each with a different image placement and button layout, switching between them updates instantly.
- **Full style control:** Customize colors, borders, radius and spacing under Button Style and Card Appearance to match your card to your brand.
- **Built in affiliate disclosure:** Show your global BetterLinks disclosure text or write a custom one for that specific card, right under the product box.
- **Nofollow control:** Add a rel="nofollow sponsored" attribute to any button with a single toggle, which is recommended for affiliate links.

## **How to Create a Promo Card with BetterLinks**

With the features in mind, let us walk through the setup. This guide shows you how to open the Promo Cards dashboard, configure your card and publish it anywhere on your site.

### **Step 1: Open the Promo Cards Dashboard**

From your WordPress dashboard, navigate to **BetterLinks → Promo Cards**. If this is your first visit, the dashboard will be empty.

![Open the Promo Cards Dashboard](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-8.png)

Click the **'Add card'** button to create your first Promo Card.

![Click the 'Add card' button to create your first Promo Card.](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-9.png)

This instantly opens the Promo Card designer, where you configure your card and watch it take shape in the Live Preview panel on the right.

### **Step 2: Configure Your Card**

Start with your **product details**. Choose your Product Source, select 'Custom' to enter details manually, which works for any product or service, or pick 'WooCommerce' to import a product's name, image and prices automatically. Then type in your Product Name and click the upload area to add a product image straight from your WordPress Media Library.

![Configure Your Card](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-2.gif)

Once selected, the image appears in the designer and your card starts taking shape in the Live Preview.

![Once selected, the image appears in the designer and your card starts taking shape in the Live Preview.](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-10.png)

Next, set up your **call to action button**. Every card can have a Primary and an optional Secondary button. Under 'Short Link', search and select an existing BetterLinks short link, or flip the 'Create New Link' toggle to generate a brand new one by typing the destination URL.

Then set your Button Text and configure two toggles, **Tracking** keeps clicks routing through your short link into BetterLinks Analytics and **Nofollow** adds a rel="nofollow sponsored" attribute, recommended for affiliate links.

![BetterLinks Analytics and Nofollow adds a rel="nofollow sponsored" attribute, recommended for affiliate links.](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-14.png)

From the **'Pricing'** section, set a Regular Price and a Sale Price. When both are set, the sale price displays prominently while the regular price appears struck through, a proven way to highlight a deal.

Head to **'Layout & Content'** to pick one of five ready templates, Epsilon, Vega, Pollux, Sirius and Orion, each with a different image placement and button arrangement and the Live Preview updates instantly as you switch between them.

![Head to 'Layout & Content' to pick one of five ready templates](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image-1.gif)

In the same section, add a Badge, for example '20% OFF', and write a short, scannable description for your product. Finally, if you want to match your brand exactly, the 'Button Style' and 'Card Appearance' sections let you customize colors, borders, radius and spacing, and the 'Disclosure' section lets you display an affiliate disclosure under the card.

### **Step 3: Publish Your Card**

Once you are happy with the Live Preview, hit **'Save'**. You will land back on the Promo Cards dashboard, where your new card is listed with a ready to use shortcode, click the copy icon to grab it.

Paste that shortcode into any post, page or widget area. You can also insert the Promo Card block in the Gutenberg editor or use the Promo Card widget in Elementor, all three methods render the same card. Here is how the finished Promo Card looks on a live page:

![Paste that shortcode into any post, page or widget area.](https://betterlinks.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/image.gif)

Need more help walking through the designer? Check out **[this documentation](https://betterlinks.io/docs/create-promo-cards-betterlinks/)** for the full step by step guide with every setting explained.

## **Who Gets the Most Out of Promo Cards**

Promo Cards are built for anyone linking to a product or service and hoping for a click. Whether you run an affiliate blog, a review site or a content business built around recommendations, it turns your links into something worth stopping for.

This feature fits almost anyone publishing product content, but a few groups gain the most from it. Here is a quick look at how different users put it to work.

| **User** | **How Promo Cards Helps** |
| --- | --- |
| Affiliate marketers | Turn every recommendation into a tracked, visual product box instead of a plain link readers skim past. |
| Bloggers and reviewers | Highlight the exact product being reviewed with an image, price and button, right inside the article. |
| Content teams | Standardize how product recommendations look across every post, without a designer touching each one. |
| WooCommerce store owners | Import product name, image and pricing automatically and feature store items anywhere on the site. |
| Agencies | Build consistent, on brand product boxes for multiple client sites, all tracked from one dashboard. |

## **Why Use BetterLinks Promo Cards**

The strongest reason to use Promo Cards is that it closes the gap between a link and a decision. A reader who sees a price, a badge and a clear button has everything they need to act, and you get to see exactly how well that box performs.

- **It converts better than a plain link.** A visual product box with pricing and a badge gives readers a reason to click, instead of hoping a blue underlined phrase catches their eye.
- **Every click is tracked automatically.** No separate plugin, no manual UTM tagging, the button click routes through your short link and lands straight in BetterLinks Analytics.
- **It fits anywhere.** Shortcode, Gutenberg block or Elementor widget, the same card renders wherever you need it, so you are never locked into one editor.
- **It stays on brand.** Five templates and full style control mean the card looks like it belongs on your site, not like a plugin default nobody customized.

## **How Promo Cards Shifts Link Management to the Next Level**

Most link management tools stop at shortening a URL and logging a click. Promo Cards pushes that further by turning the link itself into the thing your reader actually interacts with, a designed product box instead of a line of blue text.

That means your link data and your content design are no longer two separate jobs. You build the card, you publish it, and the performance data flows straight back into the same BetterLinks dashboard where your other short links already live. One plugin covers the full journey, from the link you create to the box a reader taps and the report that tells you it worked.

## **Start Converting Clicks Into Sales Today**

A raw affiliate URL is easy to miss and impossible to measure well. Promo Cards gives you a polished product box with images, pricing and tracked call to action buttons, built and published without leaving your WordPress dashboard.

If you are ready to make your affiliate links work harder, **[get started with BetterLinks](https://betterlinks.io/pricing/)** and build your first Promo Card on your next post. Want more WordPress tips and product updates? **[Subscribe](https://betterlinks.io/blog/)** to the BetterLinks blog and explore the rest of the site for the newest tutorials and demos.