no WP Amazon images

I’m using CG-Amazon and the images are not showing either. I hope it’s just a temporary downtime on amazon server.

If it was down, I missed it as the images are showing up for me (a heads up in case they are still not showing up for you).

I am also not getting the images and I tried it since Beel posted.

I just visited your site and saw this:
https://images.amazon.com/images/P/1932100296.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Couldn’t check the other two sites – bad link and no lnk.

The problem is with the WP Amazon plugin, which allows you to insert code into a post to add a link to an Amazon product. The plugin provides 4 types of links to choose from: text only, small image, medium image and large image. Right now, for some reason, it isn’t allowing image links. Fortunately the existing posts look alright, it’s just not producing images for new posts.

That sidebar thing on my blog doesn’t use the plugin, it’s a bit of code I modified myself to show a random book that I’ve read recently.

Oh, sorry. I am also confusing plugins – I switched from WP-Amazon to CG-Amazon a long time ago. I am getting all the images in my sidebar and in my posts using CG-Amazon.

In another thread I believe the CG author, David, mentioned Amazon often did not supply images for one of the 3 sizes, I have forgotten which.

@beel, is there supposed to be an amazon image here?
https://www.billhayes.us/wordpress/cgaindex.php?p=ASIN_B00009P1MP

Yep, cough-cough, the images I saw were cached images. Even though I entered a new asin, my “related” section had evidently pulled that image, too. I emptied my cache and now no pictures ??

Guess something was changed at Amazon so it is “something” to which David will have to attend.

Amazon changed their webservices yesterday and the code has to be updated. It may be possible to modify the current code with a “version control number” to use the old version until the plugins are updated.

https://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-assocdevxml&msg=9281.1&ctx=0

For WP-Amazon, you can do this in wp-amazon.php:

Add &Version=2005-03-23 at the end of the URL like this

array ("BaseURL" => "https://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service
=AWSECommerceService&Version=2005-03-23",
"Descr" => "United States",
"URL" => "Amazon.com"),

I’m not a programmer of even the lowest regard. Can someone give me a pretty good idea where to put the above code, and for that matter what to delete to get the wp-amazon plugin working again?

thanks,
samspade32

They’re back apparently (and the link alphaoide asked about above now shows the image again).

samspade,

The above code is exactly what’s already there except for the &Version=2005-03-23. Just look for somethign that looks like that code and stick the &Version=2005-03-23 in right after the "https://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service
=AWSECommerceService. This is in the file called wp-amazon.php. To be even more specific, it’s almost exactly in the middle of the file. (Note: that’s just for the US version. If you want to use other Amazons, scroll down a bit and fix the UK, DE, etc. versions, too.)

Don’t delete anything. All you need to do is add the version information.

And I’m not a programmer of even the lowest regard either.

Ahhh… damn amazon. They’re screwing around with formats, apparently. Looks like they rolled everything back though, as they must have pissed off enough sites with changes not being backward compatible. SHEESH.

I’ll be watching the threads there to see the outcome, but may slip a versioning string into the query in my next update of CG-Amazon, just in case. That is, so long as it doesn’t cause any other issues! ??

-d

Seems like amazon did in fact roll back the code (people who ‘adapted’ to the new stuff are now broken again!). But just in case, I’ve added a versioning string that should keep stuff working… should be in the next release out asap.

-d