Smart List: Tracking codes not carried past original page

Hey guys-

I absolutely LOVE the smart list features (especially 6, 7 and 8!).

We have an issue that I’m hoping to get some direction on-

We use tracking codes for different uses on our articles and the smart list articles are not recognizing/maintaining these codes through the different pages of the article.

Example:

If I post an article with a tracking code like this-

website.com/smart-list-article/?tracking-code=abc

When the user clicks NEXT they are taken to

website.com/smart-list-article/2/

Then..

website.com/smart-list-article/3/

Etc…

What we’d like is for the additional pages to keep the tracking code appended, like this:

website.com/smart-list-article/?tracking-code=abc
website.com/smart-list-article/2/?tracking-code=abc
website.com/smart-list-article/3/?tracking-code=abc
website.com/smart-list-article/4/?tracking-code=abc
etc…

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Hi Emil-

This is wonderful, thanks for the detailed reply.

I’m not using a plugin to generate the the query string. This is for tracking affiliate codes, Google analytics UTM codes, and similar items that are added at the time the article is shared via social media, email, etc.

I’d like to configure the site to pass “any” query string to all of the pages within the smart lists. In other words, if a visitor hits a smart list with http://site.com/smart-list/?var1=abc&var2=def&var3=ghi , I’d like that whole string to be appended to each additional page of the smartlist.

I think using $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’] would do the trick but I’m not confident in my PHP skills and don’t have a test site to play with.

Can you assist?

Thanks!

I played around with the PHP but settled on a JS solution.

If anyone else needs to make this work here is what we used:

jQuery('a.td-smart-list-button').each(function () {
var href = jQuery(this).attr('href');
if (href !== undefined) {
var urlparam = location.search;
href = href + urlparam;
jQuery(this).attr('href', href);
}
});