Help with setting up hover links

  • Resolved electric_sh0ck

    (@electric_sh0ck)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,
    I am not really having an issue I am just struggling to understand how to set up the links I need. I tried going through the steps you have included on the Description page but still couldn’t get it to work.
    Basically I want to create the following type of links for my website, just a text link which shows the image when you hover over the link:
    https://www.myfoodandhappiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/amazon-link.png

    Currently I create these links manually by copying and pasting the code from the amazon website but wanted to see if your plugin can help me automate it.

    First of all, which template is needed for this type of plugin? Is it the Preview script?

    It sounded to me like the most appropriate one so on the post page when I select this type of template, I enter the ASIN number and text and lick Insert link, all I get is this:

    [amazon template=preview script&asin=B004SBKM78]

    However this doesn’t display anything, doesn’t add the text link to the shortcode either.
    Can you please let me know what I am missing and what are the steps to create such link?

    Thanks for your help!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/amazon-link/

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  • Plugin Author paulstuttard

    (@paulstuttard)

    Hi,

    Thanks for trying the plugin! You are on the right track.

    The problem is the ‘preview script’ template is _just_ the javascript to create the popups it does not actually create a link. The Amazon guidance is that there is only one copy of the script at the end of each page.

    So the idea is you create lots of text links through your content (this is the default operation of the shortcode). So a shortcode of just:

    [amazon asin=B005M2AM7W&text=brown (whole grain) rice]

    Will create the text link to the product you want.

    Then at the bottom of you post add the preview script

    [amazon template=preview script]

    If your happy to edit your theme, you could add some php at the end of the page to automatically pull in the script for every page.

    Paul

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