obilix99

+1 for this request — I came to this page literally to ask the same question. ??

Lots of testing and backups beforehand, and yet it was still terrifying! ??

Hi Paul,

That was my original plan, but in the end I did a search and replace in the database to change the shortcodes to match the plugin I ended up replacing it with.

Had to laugh when I got an email late yesterday saying the deadline had been pushed back — sort of expected it, but it’s not like anyone could have waited until then to migrate!

Cheers,
Dave

Oh hell. That’s… not ideal.

I guess that answers what I’ll be doing for the next 10 days — finding a replacement and then working out the best way to migrate several hundred shortcode instances across. ??

Hey Paul,

Thanks for the offer! I’ve gone through all the ones I know were displaying wrongly in the past (ie, the ones I’d added a &price tag to), and most of them are now fixed because of the plugin you suggested.

Going forward, I’ll keep track of any that I find that are still wrong — if I get enough of them, I’ll send them through, but it’s probably not worth you spending your time tracking down the exceptions at the moment. I’m sure you’ve got more enjoyable ways to spend your day. ?? Thanks for the help!

Dave

Hey Paul,

Thanks so much for getting back to me. I installed the plugin (and no problem with the Plugin Associate IDs, I’ve had that set for years. You definitely deserve to earn money for your work!).

The plugin fixed the problem for some of the US store ASINS (eg. B019ES6OKI), but not for others (eg. B071JN2XFC). For those ones, I tried NEW_PRICE, COLLECT_PRICE, and anything else that looked like it might be relevant, but nothing except PRICE returned any information to the template (and the price it did return was the higher, incorrect one, unfortunately).

I’m pretty confused by that, since I can’t see anything obviously different in the XML returned for either of those example ASINs, and looking at the code in the plugin, it does seem to be using the LowestNewPrice value for NEW_PRICE. Strange!

Anyway, I just thought I’d let you know my results. If it’s just a strange Amazon glitch for a few ASINs, I can live with that — I’ll just have to monitor which ones are still returning the wrong price, and which ones aren’t. If there’s a quick fix that you can see, though, I’d love to hear it. ??

Dave

It seems to have fixed it for me — thanks!

As an example, https://validator.ampproject.org/#url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoomanyadapters.com%2Fbest-travel-smartphones%2Famp%2F

As I say, it passes now, because I’ve disabled all social sharing until it’s fixed.

Yup, it worked perfectly — thanks! I just put:
<?php if ( !is_amp_endpoint() ) {
above the newsletter code block, and
<?php } ?>
afterwards, to keep it from being displayed on AMP pages.

Hi Mohammed,

That’s perfect, thanks! I’ll test it out today. ??

Cheers,
DAve

Hi AzMark,

Sorry, that doesn’t work for my situation. I’m inserting content (a newsletter signup form, in this case) at the end of every post via a plugin. I need to be able to check via php whether the post is being shown on an AMP page, so I can stop the signup form from being shown in that case.

At the moment, it shows the signup and thankyou text on AMP pages, but the form itself is stripped out, so it’s very confusing for readers.

I never disabled comments — that would have been impractical on my site for something like this. Instead, as mentioned above, I disabled the outbound click tracking from the Google Analytics plugin. It’s click tracking on links in comments that causes the problem with the AMP plugin. I would much prefer to have it turned on, though!

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Great, thanks so much (for the fix, and the excellent plugin!)

Ok, it’s on now and cache cleared. Please let me know when you’re done. ??

An example URL would be https://toomanyadapters.com/buying-sim-card-usa/ but as I say, I’ve disabled outbound click tracking so you won’t see the error at the moment. I can either email / paste the AMP validation error output to you, or turn it on click tracking briefly for you to look at when you’re available. You can email admin at the above domain if needed. Thanks!