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Lately I’ve had some back and forth with the WordPress members that “oversee” the plugin repository. At the moment I am slightly annoyed at the way they go about “managing” the repository but I’ll leave that for another post.

After some back and forth I was finally able to get the Plugin Guidelines that they use for determining if a plugin is qualified for the repository. In the hopes that other plugin developers don’t go through what I experienced I’m including it below. These Guidelines are as-is and as-of August 10th, 2011 the date I received them.

1. Your plugin must be … Continue Reading

Today I’d like to announce the release of version 1.7.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate (WPAA) plugin. As you may know I did not plan to release another minor 1.X version and had been planning to do a major 2.0 version release. However due to unexpected business trips and personal obligations I have not had the time to work on the new Banner Management system that would equate to a major milestone for the project.

As I do not know when I will have the time to finish the Banner Management system I thought it would be worthwhile to … Continue Reading

Hi Everyone:

I wanted to let you all know that version 2.0 of the WordPress-Amazon-Associate (WPAA) plugin is progressing smoothly. At this time I’m working on flushing out the last item on my task list for this release: inclusion of Amazon Banner Ads. I anticipate this to take another couple of weeks as I want to make sure that I think through the administrative interface completely prior to the release.

Some of the other changes made in this release include:

• Admin Settings Cleanup
• Widget & Product Styling Options
• Features … Continue Reading
  

Last year I created the WordPress-Amazon-Associate plugin to make the inclusion of Amazon links and Widgets simpler and more efficient. Since then I’ve made numerous enhancements all in the hopes that users would find it as useful as I do. To date their have been over 30,000 downloads of WPAA and overall great feedback from those that use it.

Recently I came across an excellent article on WinkPress – The Best WordPress Amazon Associate Plugins. On it you will find a great overview and comparison of Amazon Associate plugins for WordPress both free and commercial. To my surprise and … Continue Reading

Today I’m proud to announce the release of version 1.6.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin. Although there aren’t a large number of changes in this release I think it deserves special attention as it truly makes the plugin a must have for WordPress & Amazon Associate users.

In this release Geo-Localization has been extended to support static amazon links within your website’s content. This means that you no longer have to update links to use the Shortcodes provided by the plugin instead the links will be automatically updated to the appropriate amazon locale with … Continue Reading