Introducing WP-Amazon Plugin

Well, I had a look at Chait’s plugin and it seems to do everything except what I need it to. Nice plugin, in theory, but all it claims to do is let you put stuff in your sidebar–lists of Amazon products. Cool, but all I need is what WP-Amazon did which was insert individual product listings into posts.

Fingers crossed for an updated WP-amazon for 1.5.1.1 ??

thepete –

I >did< give my email out for help for a reason y’know. ??

Step 1: Activate CG-Amazon AND CG-Inline.
Step 2: Add to your post <!--amazon:SOMEASIN:Medium-->, where SOMEASIN is an actual asin, wherever you want the resulting embedding to occur.
Step 3: Save the post.
Step 4: Tweak the inline params (change size for example), and tweak cg-amazon.css, to get the desired result. Generally once tweaked, you don’t need to tweak again…

And the bonus is that it’s dynamic, so things like prices will update automatically when the caching refreshes…

Yes, it’s more complex. I admit that! But it’s also more flexible. For example, you can now use CG-Inline to embed a wishlist, or a ‘now playing’ list, directly into a post. And as the list changes, the post dynamically updates (well, assuming you aren’t running WP-Cache!). ??

Let’s start a new ‘How to get the most out of CG-Amazon’ thread if this needs more discussion — so it is easier to find for other users.

-d

Thanks for the info and I hate to say this again because it’s obvious that you’ve got a lot of enthusiasm for your plugins which are very impressive, but they’re just not what I need. WP-amazon did exactly what I needed it to do. I could do a search of Amazon without having to know the AISN/ISBN or even use it once. It was very hands off–granted, it couldn’t do as much as yours can, to be sure.

Sorry, man–but thanks, anyway! I’m sure other people use and enjoy your plugins. ??

No problem. It’s really easy to use the CG-Amazon Admin interface, search for a product, add it to your local database, then copy and paste the ASIN. The advantages of using CG-Inline and being 100% dynamic (pulling up pricing, etc.) in my mind outweighs the copy-and-paste. But that’s just me! ??

When you find that you can’t get in-post embedded Amazon links quite the way you want them, drop me a line and we’ll talk again.. ??

-d

Has anyone updated wp-Amazon to return links in the new Amazon AJAX popup format, i.e.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/%the_ASIN%/%your_id%

Much appreciated!

I had tried CG-Amazon with the popup stuff, and didn’t like what the JS was doing (it gave zero styling control, and didn’t ‘clean up’ properly, causing visual headaches in the layout…).

oh, now I remember (after reading my code, and trying it again! ;))… their JS adds wacky underlining to all Amazon links, which while it might ‘enhance clickthroughs’ or ‘visibility’, I say it ‘makes my theme look gross’. ??

my ‘work in progress’ version of CG-Amazon does have a flag to rewrite any >outgoing< amazon links (CG-Amazon has ‘internal’ linking as well, showing product info within the context of your site…). I just tested it again on my latest codebase and new chaitgear layout, and it works, but the underlining is truly ass-ugly.

Tree, it would be fair to note that this page

https://tatumweb.com/blog/about/wordpress-plugins-used/

states that 20% of the tags generated by CG-Amazon have the developer’s Amazon ID and not the user’s.

I haven’t used it so can’t say if it does work that way, but if so, seems as if that piece of info should be in some of these threads. Just so people know ahead of time.