MyFeeds — Affiliate Product Feed Importer & Shoppable Product Cards

Tired of hunting for products, pasting affiliate links, fixing the ones that quietly stopped working, and earning from ads alone? Make your blog shoppable!

Embedding affiliate links by hand costs you valuable time. Time you should spend writing new posts, researching, and running your business. Instead, looking after your links eats it up: links that lead nowhere to replace, new products to find, prices to check. Most affiliates lose sales because a link went out of date without telling them, or because a plain text link just doesn’t invite a click. So how do you show your products in a way readers actually want to explore?

MyFeeds does that for you. Instead of text links that quietly go out of date inside your posts, your readers see product cards that show the merchant, the brand, the title and the price. The cards refresh every day, so the price your reader sees is the price your merchant is charging.

All you do is copy the product feed link from your affiliate network and paste it into MyFeeds. Once the feed is imported, the Product Picker block lets you search it right inside the block editor, by keyword, with filters when you need them.

You get to stay where the value is. Writing. Instead of pasting URLs at midnight.

Who is this for

MyFeeds is for anyone in affiliate marketing who earns a commission by promoting other companies’ products: solo bloggers and niche sites as well as large publishers, magazines and deal sites. They use it to turn the product feed their affiliate network provides (some networks call it a datafeed) into product cards inside their posts, instead of pasting single affiliate links by hand. Larger sites with many merchants can add the paid plugins below, with unlimited feeds and, on E-commerce, a full shop with its own categories and filters.

Whatever you cover, from clothing and gear to books, beauty, supplements, tools, baby, garden, hobbies, niche electronics, or deals: if there’s an affiliate program for it, there’s a product feed somewhere, and MyFeeds can read it.

The block editor stays your block editor. The plugin works in the background.

What changes for you

• Your posts become shoppable. A grid your readers can scan: image, brand, price, discount, shipping, and your link. You compose it in seconds inside the block editor.
• Your prices stop lying. The price your reader sees today is the price on the merchant’s checkout right now.
• Your posts stay current. Discontinued products surface so you can replace them. Stock that comes back lights up again. Nothing changes behind your back.
• You publish faster. Two letters in the editor, the product appears, you click, the card is in. You never leave the post you’re writing.
• Your site stays yours. Products live in your own WordPress database. Visitors don’t wait on a third-party server, and nothing about them is sent off-site when a page loads.
• You never learn a file format. Whatever your network sends, MyFeeds reads it and works out which column is the price, which is the image, which is the link.

How it works

1. Paste in the affiliate product feed URL from your network.
2. The product import stores every product locally in your WordPress database. The plugin figures out the column structure on its own.
3. In any post or page, add the MyFeeds Product Picker block. Search by name, brand, or category. Click to insert.
4. The published page renders a responsive product card with the current price, image, brand, shipping, and your affiliate link. The card is built from your own database, and your server contacts no external service to render it. The pictures load from the merchant.

The next day the nightly sync refreshes what changed. The week after, a full import catches everything else. You don’t think about it.

What’s in the box

• Universal feed import. Almost any format your program hands you, detected automatically.
• Smart Mapping. Automatic recognition of common feed structures, with a manual editor for anything custom.
• Smart Search inside the block editor with synonym handling and multi-language support.
• Native Gutenberg Product Picker block with live in-editor search.
• Responsive grid of product tiles with prices, brands, shipping, and your affiliate links.
• Background imports. Large feeds process without locking your admin.
• Nightly auto-sync and weekly full re-import, scheduled and quiet.
• The price and the currency come straight from the feed. Nothing is converted behind your back.
• Works with any WordPress theme that supports the block editor.

Good to know

• Everything happens inside WordPress, from the feed URL to the published card. There is nothing to download, upload or update by hand.
• Self-hosted. Your server contacts no external service to render a product; the pictures come from the merchant’s image server.
• If your program publishes a feed file you can download, MyFeeds will almost certainly import it.

Get started

Install MyFeeds, paste one feed URL, and make your next post shoppable.

Related paid plugins

This plugin is fully functional on its own. Separate, independent paid plugins called MyFeeds Starter, MyFeeds Pro and MyFeeds E-commerce are available at myfeeds.site. They add things like a carousel block, a visual card designer with Google Fonts, Amazon products through Amazon’s Creators API, click and conversion analytics, and a full multi-feed shop system. They are not required to use this plugin.

External Services

MyFeeds keeps your products in your own WordPress database. It contacts other servers in two cases: your site fetches the product feed you configured, and it measures the file size of a few product pictures. The pictures themselves are not copied to your site, so your readers’ browsers load them from the merchant. Each case is described below.

Configured product feed URL (your affiliate network)

To import products, your site downloads the feed file from the URL you save in the Feed Manager. The URL points to your affiliate network’s product feed export, in CSV, TSV, XML, or JSON format.

• What is sent: an HTTP GET request to the feed URL. It carries WordPress’s standard User-Agent header, which names your WordPress version and your site address. Anything your network put into the feed URL itself (for example a publisher ID or a key) travels with it. No visitor data is sent.
• When it is sent: when you add, edit, test or reimport a feed in the WordPress admin, and on the plugin’s schedule (a daily sync and a weekly full import). Showing a product card to a reader never calls the feed URL.
• Where it is sent: to the host in the feed URL you saved. If that address redirects, the plugin follows the redirect. The plugin does not pass the URL on to anyone else.

The feed is provided by your affiliate network, so that network’s terms of service and privacy policy apply to the download.

Product pictures (the merchant’s image server)

A feed lists the web address of every product picture, on the merchant’s own server or image CDN. MyFeeds shows the picture from that address and does not copy it to your site.

• In your readers’ browsers: when a reader opens a post with product cards, their browser requests each picture from the merchant’s image server, as it does for any picture embedded from another website. That server receives what a browser always sends: the reader’s IP address, browser details and, usually, the address of your site. The same happens in your own browser when you search and pick products in the block editor.
• From your server: to keep your pages light, the plugin finds out whether a merchant’s image server can deliver a smaller version of a picture. For this, your server asks for the first byte of a few sample pictures per image host and reads the file size from the reply. These requests carry WordPress’s standard User-Agent header and no visitor data. The check starts after you have opened the WordPress admin, runs in the background, and does not ask a host again for at least a month once that host has answered.
• Where it is sent: to the hosts named in the picture addresses of your feed.

Which hosts these are depends on the feeds you import, and their terms and privacy policies apply. If your site uses an image optimisation or CDN plugin that rewrites picture addresses, pictures may be loaded through that service instead.

Links on a product card

Every product card links to the affiliate link from your feed. A request to your affiliate network or the merchant happens only when a reader clicks a card. Sample products, if you use them, link to a page on myfeeds.site.

Apart from the above, the plugin sends nothing anywhere: it has no analytics, no tracking and no usage reporting. Links in the plugin’s admin screens (to myfeeds.site, to the review page on WordPress.org, to the checkout of the paid plugins) open only when you click them.

Source Code

The full source for this plugin is open-source. See myfeeds.site for the project homepage and links to the public repository.

• Block editor source: src/index.js
• Build tool: terser via npm run build (configuration in package.json)

To rebuild the editor bundle from source, run npm install && npm run build inside the plugin folder.