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URL Params

The URL Params WordPress Plugin allows you to access URL parameters in the Query String of the URL.

The plugin even allows you to specify a default value in the shortcode if the parameter isn’t set, so if you want to say “Hello, FirstName” and FirstName isn’t set, it could say something like “Hello, Friend!”

To specify a backup url parameter, enter multiple parameters seperated by commas. The plugin will check for each paramter, in order, until a matching one is found and return that. Failing finding any of the parameters you listed, the default will be returned. For example, you can specify [urlparam param="FirstName, First, name" default="Friend" /] to check for FirstName, and if not found, then First, if not found, then name, and if not, then just return “Friend”.

If the parameter is a date, you can also specify the dateformat option using a PHP friendly date format, for example [urlparam param="somedate" dateformat="F Js" /].

This is great if you have personalized links, like from Keap / Infusionsoft, as it lets you personalize a landing page with a persons name.

You can also use this to pre-fill out form fields for folks based on the querystring. For example, if their first name is passed in the URL, your landing page can greet the viewer by name and pre-fill their name on a form.

Installation: To install the plugin, download the zip file and upload via the plugin interface of your WordPress site.

I’m always open to suggestions and ideas on how to improve this plugin. Please ask questions or make suggestions in our support forum on WordPress.org.

28 thoughts on “URL Params”

  1. I tryed this nice plugin.

    It seems to work (partly)

    The shortcode seems to wor (with the default)

    But it is not possible to gove wordpress the params…..

    http://www.to……/it/test01/?name=xxxx ends in an “not found” error

    1. I use this plugin quite a bit- know the comment I’m replying to is very old, but for anyone that comes along and sees this- if you had just removed the ending / right before the ? it would have worked just fine ๐Ÿ™‚

      I’ve used this plugin to make a custom newsletter page (displaying different client names based on link) and a few other nifty things for fun- working on a mad libs for kids kind of project now- it is a great tool if you know how to work it and get creative with the applications!!! huge thanks to the author for creating this

  2. Hello. That’s I great plugin! A good improvement could be a feature to add the keywords into template files and input field from admin.

    Some sort of

    And being able for example to add this :
    [urlparam param="Search, search" default="ASANDIA" /]
    to admin text inputs from settings. I could find it uselful for adwords purpose ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Adrian, you can totally do that. Google can pass that info to you so you can capture it and submit via hidden fields on your opt-in forms. Check the various utm fields from Google. ๐Ÿ™‚

  3. Was afraid to try it on the latest 3.5 WordPress but it works perfectly. Very useful thanks ๐Ÿ™‚ Now I just have to figure out how to get a contact form plugin to send to an address in the url. Anyone done this ?

  4. Looks as if this is the plugin I need, but can’t quite get it to work.

    I’m using [urlparam param="Agent" default="NoneXYZ" /]

    and it always comes back as “NoneXYZ”

    I am using the website above plus this string:
    ?Agent=”LanceG”

    Then I am displaying it on the webpage using just the short code.

    Any suggestions? (I’m new with working on websites.)

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  6. Jeremy,

    I don’t know if you are still out there, but it would be great if you would update your plugin in the WordPress site. It has a huge message that it hasn’t been touched in years and we probably shouldn’t use it. It seems to be working find to me.

    You could even create a “paid for” version and some people (myself included) would buy it. I’ll put a link to the post I’m writing right now. It solved a major and basic problem for me – how to tell where a subscriber came from before her or she came to my squeeze page. AWeber has required one page per source and with a dozen ads, and split testing the number of pages gets ridiculous. Passing a parameter in solves that.

    Thanks
    Dr. Hale

  7. Great plugin I must say.

    But it doesn’t seem to work when I try to add it to Title tag, keyword tag and meta description.

    I’m using the plugin “wordpress seo by Yoast”. When I add your code [urlparam param="city" /] into the title tag section, it turns the code to: [urlparam param="kw" /]

    Is there a fix for that?

    Thanks

  8. Hi Jeremy,

    Thanks for the amazing Plugin! It was exactly what I was looking for. ๐Ÿ™‚

    I used it to populate a confirmation page for Gravity Forms with some data from the form.

    Cheers,
    Jan

  9. Hi,

    I have a squeeze page to capture email leads.

    Upon form submission, the user is shown a Thank-You page with a meta-refresh tag redirecting to a URL like http://example.com/show.html?a=1234&src=xpto

    how can I dinamically change this meta-refresh to http://example.com/show.html?a=1234&src=urlparam

    being urlparam the query string I passed from my facebook Ad to the squeeze page

    This would be a complete solution to monitor the ROI from affiliates campaing

    Thanks!

  10. Hey Jeremy, I’ve used your plugin many times before with great success. I’ve run into an issue that I cannot seem to get past. It has to do with passing url param data into an Infusionsoft form using the Survey Funnel plugin. I sent you a message via the contact form on this site with more information.

    I’d love to know if this can be solved.
    Thanks!

  11. hay i tryed to use it But it doesnโ€™t seem to work when I try to add it to Title tag, keyword tag and meta description.

    Iโ€™m using the plugin โ€œwordpress seo by Yoastโ€.

    1. Thanks for the comment and great question. Shortcodes only work in the actual page body – not in those other fields.

  12. WOW! I have a background in software and was really frustrated with a managed server for a few tiny code changes I couldn’t put in place, like getting my order numbers place inside my thankyou page.

    Thank you!!! This was super easy, of course, to implement and works perfectly.

    Your plugin enables me to make my little startup look much more professional and legit. I need that!
    Jenny

  13. Hello Jeremy !

    Your plugin is very usefull ! In order to personnalize Headline, in order to deliver a more “targeted” sale page for exemple, based on potential customer profile.

    It has a huge potential ! I would be happy to heard you are still working on it, and on a new update.

    I guess you could get much more users, if you also assume that this could be a very powerful “profiling” tool, that could increase sells.

  14. Hi, I have installed and activated but I can’t find the plugin anywhere in my wp-admin panel. Uninstalled and installed over and over, problem persists.

    Any idea of what I can do?

  15. Hello,

    is it possible with URL-Params-Plugin, to get a couple of URL parameters like event, date and price and show these data in a simple h3-tag?

    Thank you!
    Cheers
    Stefan

    1. Absolutely! That’s what the plugin does. You can even format your event dates how you like.

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