Royal win 100.Claim Your Free 999 Pesos Bonus Today

Resolved

(@andycleff)

Amazon Link add on has been absolutely wonderful for so long… and then recently (last week or two) it has stopped displaying “related books” on the live WP pages

Using short code: [amazon template=related books&asin=0143131931]

I tried deactivating all my plug ins except amazon link. No change.

Here’s my custom template code (that used to work quite nicely):

<div class="al_found%FOUND%">
 <div class="amazon_prod">
  <div class="amazon_img_container">
   %LINK_OPEN%<img class="%IMAGE_CLASS%" src="%THUMB%">%LINK_CLOSE%
  </div>
  <div class="amazon_text_container">
   <p><strong>%LINK_OPEN%%TITLE%%LINK_CLOSE%</strong></p>
   <div class="amazon_details">
     <p>by %ARTIST% </p>
   </div>
  </div>
 </div>
<img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.%TLD%/e/ir?t=%TAG%&l=as2&o=%MPLACE_ID%&a=%ASIN%" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
</div>

This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by andycleff.

The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

Thread Starter andycleff
(@andycleff)

5 years, 3 months ago

There’s something about my custom template that’s not quite right ??

Plugin Author paulstuttard
(@paulstuttard)

5 years, 3 months ago

Template looks fine, works on my test site: (https://lazyfox.org.uk/wp/2019/08/02/31/)

If amazon is throttling your requests then the first div will be expanded as:
<div class="al_found0">...</div>

Which will cause the whole block to be hidden, removing this div will show that all the values are ‘null’ or defaults as Amazon has not returned any data.

This is a common problem (Amazon blocking requests) with a lot of associates at the moment, I think Amazon is trying to get rid of us low sales affiliates.

If the cache is enabled there is not a lot more you can do.

Paul

Thread Starter andycleff
(@andycleff)

5 years, 3 months ago

Thanks for the rapid response! Cache was enabled. Dang you amazon.

I’ve switched over to the “iframe image” template and things are working fine for now. (Copy/pasted the iframe code into my custom template, so I didn’t have to change all pages that had the short code)

Not quite as attractive on the page… but at least functional:

https://www.andycleff.com/2018/12/getting-things-done-gtd-in-and-agile-world-with-david-allen/

Cheers.

Thread Starter andycleff
(@andycleff)

5 years, 3 months ago

Throttling discussion https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=297508&tstart=0

danromanchik
(@danromanchik)

5 years, 3 months ago

Well, that sucks. I guess that I’m going to have to remove all my pages with Amazon links.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Amazon Links Stopped Displaying on Page’ is closed to new replies.

Tags