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Today we released a patch to the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin to correct an error in the Quick Links Module as well as providing additional styling for Amazon product images created through ShortCode. The latest available version (1.4.1) contains these changes and are worth getting if you utilize the HTML editor for writing content on your website.

Last week Ustad identified an issue where the insert product buttons of the Quick Links component was not inserting into the post/page content. Manuel then provided the necessary details on the error by pointing out that this issue occurred only when in the … Continue Reading

As you may have noticed there have been a few 1.2.x releases to the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin over the last few days. In version 1.2.0 we introduced support for multiple Amazon locales and Geo localization of product links through the use of ip2nation.

After the release it was brought to my attention by Per Gustafsson, owner and maintainer of ip2nation that the plugin was making head requests to his server upon every page load of websites with the plugin installed. Upon receipt of this information we released version 1.2.1 that corrected the IP2Nation module … Continue Reading

Yesterday, 11-20-2010 we released version 1.2 of the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin. This release was a major milestone to the plugin as it know supports multiple locales. This means that individuals that have associate ids for multiple amazon locales can insert them all into the plugin. In addition we integrated ip2nation support so that Geo Localization is available if desired to render amazon links per the amazon locale of the visitors country.

We release that everyone may not be an associate for every locale, so we give you the ability to disable locales. This allows you full control over … Continue Reading

Early today 11-19-2010 we have released version 1.0.1 of the Amazon Product API (APaPi) library. This release corrects 2 main bugs that were in the first official release:

Japan Domain correction – updated japan domain to .jp from co.jp
setLocale validation fix – logic corrected for false negative.

If you are using the library to query the Amazon Japan locale you will need to update to version 1.0.1 from version 1.0.

Yesterday (11/14/2010) saw the release of Version 1.1.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin. I am very excited about this release as we feel a couple key features were introduced. First WPAA now fully support I18n localization and includes a .pot file that users can use to translate the plugin into their language. If you do create a translation please forward the po/mo files to me so I can include them for other users.

The second key feature we introduced with this release is the Compliance Module. This module enables the plugin to render ShortCode from other plugins within … Continue Reading

Some may already have noticed but this past Monday we released the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin for WordPress. This stream-linef plugin is built with the purpose of enabling you to quickly and easily take full advantage of all the widgets and feature that Amazon makes available to associates, and of course monetize your website while doing so.

I won’t take the time to list through all the features this plugin offers but instead, I’ll simply say this: If you are an Amazon Associate and run a WordPress powered website then the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin … Continue Reading

Yesterday we released the first official release of the APaPi library for PHP – version 1.0. This release of the library implemented numerous bug fixes through the creation of unit test cases built on the PHPUnit framework. In addition to bug fixes this version of the library implements a strict mode that will throw exceptions if invalid requests are made, minimizing bad calls to the Amazon Product API.

Please visit the project changelogs for a comprehensive list of the changes made, or download the library now.

Yesterday saw the release of version 0.3 of the APaPi library. This PHP Wrapper of the Amazon Product Advertising API now supports the BrowseNodeLookup operation. In addition convenience methods have been implemented that allow for users to quickly perform product searches without having to set all required parameters.

For an example, if you wanted to lookup a book based on it’s ISBN would require a single line of code after configuring the library.

$result = $api->lookupByISBN( ’0765326353′ );

Searches can be performed similarity by calling searchBooks, searchDVD, and other category searches. In addition the library now supports JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format … Continue Reading

Today we have released the second development release of the APaPi library version 0.2. In addition to numerous bug fixes and code cleanup efforts we have provided support for a number of new features in this release. The most note worthy change is that we have implemented an Iterator that will query Amazon as needed for additional pages of results as needed while iterating through all the product results. This allows users of the APaPi library to loop over the results without having to worry about manually calling for the next page of results. The second major enhancement is that … Continue Reading

Development has just begun on the new APaPi library. This library is to be used for obtaining information from the Amazon Product API. Currently basic support exists for performing the ItemSearch and ItemLookup operations of the API. The project is still in it’s infancy with support for full pagination and all operations to be forthcoming.

You can start using the library today by visiting the Amazon Product API home page or by downloading the latest version.