Introducing WP-Amazon Plugin

How can I have the text wrap around the amazon image?

I’m also interested in the answers to these last couple of questions (although I suspect that my problem with the wrapping is something silly in my CSS).

1. Use CG-Amazon, because then I can >really< help you. ??

2. wrapper the current block that WP-Amazon inserts in a div, and float the div (which is what I do with CG-Amazon by default):

<div class="float-amazon"><a> ..... wp amazon stuff ...
</a></div>

Then, in your CSS, you want something like:
.float-amazon {
float:left;
padding: 4px;
}

Drop me a line at cgcode at chait dot net if you need more help or want to try out CG-Amazon.

-d

That worked. Thanks!

no prob, glad to help!

-d

i get the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /uneu/dumberg/subwww/eyetag/htdocs/weblog/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 101

how can i fix that?
thx!

can you fix the problem with german umlauts? they are not shown right.

After spending a lot of time trying to install this, I have to chime in for newbies who want to use this with WP 1.5.

To install this plugin, download this zip:
https://manalang.com/wp-content/wp-amazon-1.2.5.zip

The trick with this plugin is there are TWO files you need to upload into your plugins directory: wp-amazon.php and wp-amazon-plugin.php. Neither works without the other – believe me, I spent a lot of time trying to make that happen after downloading first one, then the other, from the WordPress subversion plugins directory which has no readme or instructions attached. ??

To add your own Amazon Associates ID, go into wp-amazon.php and change line 55. I don’t know what the subscription ID is so I just left that alone.

I love this plugin because I don’t have to mess with CG and getting permissions on my 1and1 server; but I would love to be able to put “Currently Reading” info in the sidebar and on Pages so maybe I’ll have to go there after all. I have to say, the instructions for CG-amazon are daunting. It looks like a ton of work for someone not comfortable in MySQL. Hmmm….

… and the Amazon Subscription ID you should officially leave alone, according to Amazon’s preference that the ID be associated with the original creator of a plugin, not the user:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/002-1061869-0091257?node=3434651#subscription-plugin

can you possibly tell me how to hack the code so the html output would be <table>
<tr>
<td><img src="IMAGE URL/></td>
<th>&nbsp;</th>
<td><b>Currently Reading</b><br><a href="Product URL">PRODUCT NAME</a></td></tr></table>

instead of the original one

What do you find ‘daunting’ about cg-amazon? Especially as there is nothing you have to do related to MySQL! Where did that come from?

All you do is unzip CG-PowerPack, copy the contents of the plugins folder into your wp-content/plugins folder, set the wp-content/plugins/cg-plugins/cache_amazon folder to be writeable, and activate the plugins (at least CG-Amazon, probably CG-Inline as well). You’re running at that point. The admin screen is active, you can add products to you library (by asin or by search), and you can immediately add code to print out your wishlisht, or a ‘now reading’ list.

Then, you can go into cg-plugins/cga-config.php and set your associates ID and other preferences for how things are output. You can grab cgaindex.php and put it in your wordpress root for a favorite-products catalog.

CG-Amazon’s power is that it is much more configurable, doesn’t embed static-HTML (fully dynamic), and can do both post-inlined amazon links (graphical, floating, and inline-text) and sidebar lists with ease.

If you try CG-Amazon, feel free to start up a new thread and ask away wherever you’re having problems/issues. I’m trying to improve it, but if people don’t give me direct/targeted feedback, it’s hard to make it easier and ‘less daunting’. ??

-d

hi!

is there a modification to wp-amazon that makes it possible to use it in the sidebar? need my actual readings etc to be displayed there…

thanks, et

@eyetag, I think david chaits amazon plugin is designed to work exactly like you are describing.

Yes, CG-Amazon can do both in-post dynamic item links (inline text or floated graphics+text+button) and sidebar lists equally well. Sidebar lists can be of the ‘now reading’ variety, keyword lookups, or standard Wishlists.

Drop a line to cgcode at chait dot net if you need help. Oh, and you can get it along with the rest of the CG-PowerPack.

-d

Well, I’ve been using WP-amazon for a while now and would like to stick with it if possible in 1.5.1.1 My problem are these errors:

Warning: main(admin.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/www/thepete/theblog/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 3

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘admin.php’ (include_path=”) in /home2/www/thepete/theblog/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 3

I get them after I click on “Insert Content from Amazon.com”.

Any ideas? In the mean time, I just might give Chait’s plugin a try.