Matthew Denton

No, JavaScript isn’t used for generating links it is all done in php and rendered as an a tag. I’ll need to take a closer look but i do believe I had defaulted the behavior so that if a product does not exist for a geo-locale it renders instead the text in side the ShortCode but I’ll have to confirm and if so update it so that if the product doesn’t exist the default locale is used instead.

Thanks for pointing that out I’ll make sure to update all my documentation.

Hi,

Although Amazon has implemented an Italy Locale they have not implemented widgets or the Product Advertising API for the locale. The WordPress Amazon Associate (WPAA) plugin uses these tools for searching for and displaying products and widgets.

Amazon’s Italy locale will be supported once Amazon has these features implemented.

Thanks,
> Matthew J. Denton

Hi, sorry I always seem to forget putting in the closing tag to the ShortCode in my examples. Please try [amazon_carousel /] and it should work for you without any issues.

Thanks for pointing out the Image Link is not functioning on the Visual Editor I will look into that and get a fix for it put into the next release.

~ Matthew

First your associate tag/code will not be in the Short Code it will get inserted when the link is rendered on viewing, are you saying when you view the post/page that the link isn’t using the associate tag you entered in the WP – Amazon > Settings page of the admin?

Second please send me the exact amazon-carousel code you are using and I’ll run it locally in my environments to give it a test to see if there is something wrong with the syntax. All ShortCode in the plugin is rendered through the same class in the backend so I find it strange that links would function but not the carousel widget.

> Matthew

HI again, I’ve looked at a few proxy sites and as it turns out they each support different functionality with some sites supporting javascript and others not. At this time I have decided to not pursue this issue any further.

> Matthew

Hi, you’ll have to provide additional information on how your website is setup, a link to the site itself would be helpful as well to determine the issue you are having with the plugin Short Codes.

> Matthew

Hi, yes curl is required for using the plugin. I have it as a future to-do to enable the ability to use file_get_contents instead of curl but in the mean time curl is required.

Sorry,
> Matthew J. Denton

Hi,

I don’t have access to proxy services while at work. Please let me know what your website is and I’ll take a look this evening to see if I can track down why the links are not rendering.

Thanks,
> Matthew

Hi,

On line 1254 of your style.css stylesheet you have the following entry that is formatting your ad incorrectly.

#sidebar embed, #sidebar object, #sidebar-alt embed, #sidebar-alt object {
height:225px;
margin:10px 0 0;
padding:0;
width:300px;
}

by removing the height property then it looks as expected you could also set it to height:250px; if desired.

> Matthew

Adam:

From your code snippet it looks like you are using the get_post_meta function correctly. Is the above code snippet within the post loop? I would confirm that your $post object is populated first as that is the most common reason for these types of errors.

Hi, the amazon_image short code allows you to enter a class parameter that will append the img tag with the inputted class. I’m working on a new version of the plugin and will see about including a container and container_class parameters that will enable users to do custom styling of the links.

Hi, The Enhanced Display Ads are a feature that I plan to support in the next major release of the plugin. I’m not sure at the moment when the update will be available but plans are to have it completed before the end of January.

Please review your author-avatar and author-description css. You are setting the elements to float but have the explicit height on the image that is causing the overlap..

I would suggest removing the margins and setting a width on the author-description to start as i am not sure how you want things to display.

old versions of IE don’t render empty divs… go Microsoft…