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The Hidden Plugin Guidelines all WordPress Plugin Developers should know

Matthew Denton August 10, 2011

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.

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New Release: WPAA Plugin version 1.6.0 – Static Link Geo Localization

Matthew Denton May 18, 2011

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

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Version 1.4.0 released for the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin

Matthew Denton December 11, 2010

Well, as it turns out version 1.3.0 was not the last release of the 1.X branch. Let me announce that Version 1.4.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin has been released!

This release incorporates a few key features that I think will open up the plugin to an even wider audience. First this releases includes a new Cache module. The Cache Module if enabled will save Product information returned from the Amazon Product API to a local database and will serve that content from the local copy instead of doing another request. The saved data is stored … Continue Reading

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New Release: Version 1.3.0 of the WordPress Amazon Associate Plugin

Matthew Denton December 03, 2010

Today (December 3rd) we released version 1.3.0 of our WordPress plugin: WordPress Amazon Associate. We’re really excited about the new features that have been included in this release and think that you will be as well.

Everybody loves widgets and in this release we have added support for the Amazon Omakase Widget. This widget (shown below) will render Amazon Products that have been optimized by Amazon for your website.

You can add this widget to your site through PHP, Short Code, The Widget Admin screen, or through the new extended tinyMCE control. As … Continue Reading

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WordPress Amazon Associate update: Supporting I18n and Plugin Compliance

Matthew Denton November 15, 2010

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

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New WordPress Plugin – WordPress Amazon Associate

Matthew Denton November 10, 2010

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

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