How to use Amazon Link

Hi, You will need to post a few more details.

What have you done, what do you expect to see and what do you actually see?

Paul

Hi, I can’t see any data from Amazon. I created aStore before I installed the plugin, since I feel Amazon aStore is too small. But I installed the plugin, and didn’t see any new data from Amazon. I don’t know if the setting is correct or not. Can you check my setting for the plugin. Please contact me: [ email deleted, please do not post those here ]

Many thanks

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If the plugin author chooses to post his contact details (contact URLs are preferreable) then that’s fine. But anyone else posting their email address is discouraged.

Hi Shena,

The plugin does not automatically enhance existing Amazon items, you use it to insert new Amazon product data by adding shortcodes to your post content.

e.g.

Adding the shortcode:

[amazon asin=B00HRUSWHY&template=thumbnail]

in your post content will insert a thumbnail image for the product identified by the ASIN – ‘B00HRUSWHY’, into your post (with a link to the Amazon site).

Some of the advantages of using the plugin are:

• You can search for products on the Post/Page edit screen
• Insert predefined HTML based on Templates for each product
• Links and Data localised to visitor’s location
• Automatically add valid localised Associate Tags to each link

Hope that helps,

Paul

Hi

I have just installed to try out and not yet entered personal Associate ID’s.

It seems not to do what I was expecting and wonder what I am doing wrong.

Having created a new page for recommended books when I enter the example code ie. [amazon asin=B00HRUSWHY&template=thumbnail]

I get the standard page header/footer/title and where I was expecting to see an image I receive the ‘Image Not Available’ place holder which if clicked takes me to the correct Amazon page. I wondered if my browser (Chrome) might be blocking so installed Firefox and get the same result and have tried other Amazon asin’s with the same result.

Related page:
https://www.corpalc.com/recommended-books/

What might be wrong that is preventing the images loading?

Thanks
nick

Hi Nick,

Thanks for trying the plugin!

First thing to note is that ASIN (B00HRUSWHY) is not available in the US (it is in the UK) so that might be the problem…

However some more info on how the plugin works:

For the plugin to work fully you need to register with the Amazon Web Service: Advertising API and enter your API Keys into the plugin AWS Public/Secret key settings.

Doing this enables the plugin to retrieve product information from the Amazon Web servers (e.g. the URL to the product thumbnail).

If you do not want to do this then you either have to provide the data it needs manually in the shortcode, or use templates that do not need product data.

As you have found, simple links do not need data from the Amazon server so the shortcode below should just work:

[amazon asin=B000A7DVR2&text=The Big Lebowski]

Or if you provide the data manually in the shortcode you can use more templates, for example the shortcode below will produce a thumbnail:

[amazon asin=B000A7DVR2&template=thumbnail&title=Big Lebowski&thumb=https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YVZZH6DNL.SY115.jpg]

Some templates (the Amazon JavaScript widgets) do not need any data, these include:

• carousel
• iframe image
• mp3 clips
• my favourites

[amazon asin=B000A7DVR2&template=iframe image]

Hope this helps!

Paul

Thanks for the info Paul, I had misread the docs and mistakenly understood that the default settings were configured to make use of your credentials.

Having set up the keys it works as expected.