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Unless I’m missing something, that plugin is deprecated and no longer supported. That makes it hard for other plugin authors to support the combination of their plugin with it. You may need to make your own code changes to fix it; I would not expect them to put time and energy toward making their plugin compatible when it’s difficult enough to maintain compatibility with current plugins.

Agreed – this is definitely needed!

Great points raised here. However – don’t forget that this plugin is still in beta. The points made here would be terrific suggestions for them to put into the final version! It would be awesome if you could make a support thread and ask that they put these in. I would definitely consider both of these as being required for a good Amazon plugin; to leave them out would severely cut down on its usefulness.

A seriously deployed site (as opposed to what, really? A snarkily deployed site? :D) should already have a plugin that has the ability to set the admin bar as visible for Admins only. There are many reasons Admins may need info at any given time, so to hide the bar for everyone at all times without being able to flip it on per user type does not help your admins anyway.

At the same time, giving a one star rating for a plugin that you are unable to actually judge how well it does its job because of your current site setup? That’s as bad as Amazon reviewers who give a one star rating on something because the shipping department sent them a completely wrong item and they had to return it. And it sounds like you assume everyone has their site setup the same way you do, so the plugin author must have done it wrong.

If you are able to use it, then rate how it does. If you are unable to use it, then either change your site setup so that you can or delete the plugin and find another that you are able to use. But please don’t punish plugin developers for things like this – they don’t know everyone’s site setup, and could not code to meet every single one’s specific needs even if they did. Your site’s setup is completely out of their control. Plus it gives a false impression that the plugin is bad or does not work to other users looking at the ratings.

I would also like to know the answer to this.