Shop pages
A shop page is an ordinary WordPress post of the Cashback shop type. It has a title, a slug, a featured image, a description and categories; it appears in menus and searches; and your theme wraps it like anything else.
What makes it a shop page is a pair of hidden fields binding it to a shop at a network. Everything the page states about cashback — the rate, the tracking link, the approval time — is read through that binding.
One page per shop
Cashback Tracker keeps one page per shop, per network. The Shop catalog creates them for you in bulk — see Creating shop pages in bulk — and you can add one by hand whenever a shop needs a page before its network has been set up.
What the page shows
The page assembles itself from small parts:
the shop's logo, name and rating
the cashback rate, or on a coupon site the best current offer
the Go to shop button, which is the tracked affiliate click
a facts list — approval time, categories, the shop's website
coupon highlights, when the shop has coupons
terms and exclusions, if you have written them
the description you wrote, with coupons below it
member reviews
related shops
Each appears only when there is something to show. A shop with no categories has no breadcrumb tail; one with no coupons has no highlights block; one you have written no terms for has no terms section.
Two layouts
Settings → Storefront → Shop page layout chooses between:
Sidebar panel
The logo, rate and button sit in a card beside the content, and follow you down the page as you scroll
Hero band
The same three sit in a band across the top, with content on the left and a support rail on the right
Both draw exactly the same things — only the arrangement differs. Switching is safe at any time and changes no data.
A developer can vary it per shop or per category with the cbtrkr_shop_layout filter.
Adding one by hand
Cashback Tracker → Shops → Add new.
Title
What visitors see. New pages are named from a template you set — by default %NAME% Cashback
Featured image
The shop's logo. Many imported shops arrive without one, and a page without it simply shows the shop's name. A logo service can fill these in, and refresh the low-resolution ones
Content
Your description. Coupons are added below it automatically
Shop categories
Drives the directory filters, the breadcrumb, and which shops appear as related
Shop Info
The binding and the display fields — see Shop info: every field
The two fields that matter most in Shop Info are Module ID and Shop ID at the network. Without both, the page renders as a plain post: no rate, no tracking link, no coupons.
Two pages cannot share one shop. Bind a second page to a shop that already has one and the field is cleared on save, rather than creating a duplicate that would split the shop's coupons and reviews between two URLs.
Categories are worth filling in
They do more than the directory filter suggests:
the breadcrumb at the top of the page
the related shops block, which prefers shops sharing a category and falls back to popular ones only when it must
the category archives themselves
A shop with no categories still works — the related block just says Popular shops instead of More in Fashion.
The relationship with the advertiser record
The page and the network's record are two different things.
The advertiser record is what the network told us: name, domain, logo, commission, deep link. It is refreshed on a schedule and your edits to it would be overwritten.
The page is yours. Anything you fill in under Shop Info overrides the network's value for display, permanently — so a shop whose network name is ACME-INTL-US can be called Acme on your site without the next refresh undoing it.
Delete the page and the advertiser record survives; the shop simply has no page until you make another.
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