WordPress Amazon Associate
The WordPress Amazon Associate plugin (WPAA for short) allows you to quickly and easily integrate Amazon Products and Widgets into your website, enabling you to monetize your website with your amazon associate id. The plugin provides content editor support for searching and inserting amazon product and images, content replacement of static amazon links with your defined associate tag, as well as support for inserting Amazon Widgets through WordPress Short Code, Widget Administration, or PHP code.
WPAA fully supports amazon localization to supported markets: Canada (CA), China (CN), Germany (DE), Italy (IT), France (FR), Japan (JP), Spain (ES), United Kingdom (GB), and the United States (US).
The WordPress Amazon Associate plugin is designed to be your all inclusive source for enriching your website with Amazon products and Widgets embedded with your own Amazon Associate Tag. Please visit the downloads page to get it for yourself today or install through the Plugins panel of your WordPress powered website. You can learn more about the plugin by viewing detailed information on it’s supported features.
If you need help or have questions regarding the plugin don’t hesitate to post a comment or visit the Support Forums.
I’m still getting missing links for various products, though it seems like there is no rhyme or reason of why some work and some don’t. Has there been any progress on a fix yet?
Has there been any update as to the reason for missing links?
nice plugin and i am enjoying it.thanks
Hi,
Entered access keys, but get the message:
Code: RequestExpired
Message:
Request has expired. Timestamp date is 2012-10-08T08:49:24Z.
Done all the Amazon side stuff ?
Tim
Tim:
The above message means that your webserver’s time setting is out of sync. You need to contact your hosting provider and have them update the server to the correct time. If they don’t resolve the issue let me know and I can send you some code to patch the issue, however it isn’t optimized which is why I haven’t included it in with the plugin code.
Many thanks. I have gone into my Plesk Panel and corrected this (the site is running on a VPS). Key codes now validated.
I am gonna give it a try. I haven’t had any luck with “betterAmazonAPI” or “Amazon Link”. Actually your plugins feature that allows you to verify your access keys allowed me to use the “betterAmazonAPI” again. Thanks!!!
Love the widget. One question though: Is it possible to get more than 12 resources to list on my page without the user having to go to another page? I have 13 resources and it feels awkward to have all by itself on a second page. I’d like to get it on the first page. How do I do that?
Never mind. Figured it out. It was in the HTML. Thanks!
My website is not live as yet. I have the widget activated and am trying to add the Amazon Carousel widget. It displays fine but is there a way to have displayed exactly the items I want? I cannot get the keywords box to work, I’m blocked out. I can create my own carousel at Amazon.com’s API page but have no where to place the code. Help?
Thanks!
Mike to display your own custom products you need to change the Widget Type option. If you have a list of ASIN’s then choose “ASIN List”, if you want to use keywords choose “Search and Add”
Thanks Matthew!!
I have installed the plug-in. I entered the HTML code from Amazon for a product on one of my WordPress.org blog pages, in the HTML view. It isn’t showing up on my blog. In the visual view of the page, in the dashboard, I do see a yellow box. But no nice Amazon ad on my user end. Just white space. Can you help me with this please? Thanks!
I found the place on the page where I can insert image, link, enhanced image. Tried this, too; but nothing still shows on the page. Thanks in advance for your help! I’m sure this plugin will be an awesome help once it’s up and running.
Hi, when you insert amazon content it adds it as shortcode to your post/page content in the format of
[amazon_link ...]...[/amazon_link]. If you preview the page/post you will see the shortcode replaced with the actual content from Amazon.I use the plug in to show which releases are coming out each week. I post the DVD covers and then a separate text link underneath. The last two weeks, I’ve noticed that the embed of the cover will work, but the link on the picture and the text link will disappear and just appear as text, even though the appropriate short codes are in place. This seems be happening at random, and I can’t tell what is causing it. At first I thought it was an Amazon.com problem and that the titles didn’t exist or had some problems, but that no longer seems to be the case.
(reposting in case I didn’t comment in the appropriate section)
Hi Zack, sorry you are having issues. Could you try clearing the WPAA Cache? I wonder if a request failed to Amazon then got cached as such. Also could you send me the post/page content from the wordpress admin editor? That way i can test it out in my environments?
Thanks.
Alright, I’ve sent you an email with what I hope is the required info.
Zach, thanks for the details. I’m seeing the same behavior where some of the links aren’t recognized on my test site. I’ll run some tests and see if I can determine the underlying reason.
I’m also seeing this problem and it seems to be random. If I clear the cache and re-load, some of the links won’t be picked up. For a text link, the link is gone and for an image link, it just shows the alternate text.
Clearing the cache multiple times will cause different links/images to be affected each time.
I’ve been looking at this issue and it doesn’t appear to be related to the cache. It seems like the XML returned from Amazon is different for different items and that the plugin can’t parse the images out.
Take a look at ASIN B005UUYOPM and B000S9RF4M, specifically the ImageSet node in the XML. The second one has the Images at the same level after ItemLinks and before ImageSets, and this one does display the image. For the first, there is no SmallImage, MediumImage, and LargeImage between ItemLinks and ImageSets.
I believe this issue is related to Amazon throttling requests. I had some links that weren’t showing up and I checked the WPAA cache and the result showed that there was an error due to throttling. Does the ignore the entry in the cache if it was an error?
Question: The button for adding a product appears on the Fancy Editor for the bbpress plugin version, as it pulls from WP. Forums don’t run shortcode by default and the button breaks the layout to boot. Is there some way to remove it or keep it from showing up on bbPress? Thanks for any hep you can provide.
Dixie, I’ll take a look at the bbpress plugin and see if there is something that can be done.
Thank you so much, Matthew.
Hello,
Great product – how long until I start to see ads on my site, on average?
Cheers.
Ben, this is not an automatic link service. You need to add the content to your site.
Hello Matthew you genius. Awesome widget. Everything’s working well for the most part. I love the product preview option. I just am hung up on one thing. The powerful Geo Location part that allows you to input your foreign amazon associate account ids. I put them in and update the settings. However it does not take effect. Can you please help me get this awesome tool working. I really appreciate your time.
Alan Craker
Furor.co
Alan, can you elaborate, are you saying links are localizing when visited from other locations?
Thank you, Matthew. The Advertising API Sign-In worked!
Thanks again.
Hello,
I have the same problem. AWS Key is shown as invalid. InternalError
Thank you
Hi Everyone:
It appears that you may need to sign the Product Advertising API agreement for your AWS key to be recognized. Please access the following link and sign-in. This should resolve the issue.
Advertising API Sign-In
I ma still getting the Code: InternalError and InValid when validating the Access Key and Secret Key.
Any workarounds yet?