What’s the simple/best way to display products using ASINs?

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Is there a shortcode variable where we can set the order in which ASINs are displayed on frontend list? Something like order=”raw” or order=”random”… similar to the order setting when creating units?

We try changing the order of ASIN’s (asin=”ASIN#1, ASIN#2ASIN#3″ vs. “ASIN#3, ASIN#2, ASIN#1”) in the shortcode but it has no effect on the front end. Items are in random order…

So the goal might be something like this for example:

[amazon_auto_links order="raw" asin="ASIN#1, ASIN#2, ASIN#3"]

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by wordmax.

Hi,

[amazon_auto_links asin="ASIN#1, ASIN#2, ASIN#3, ASIN#4, ASIN#5, ASIN#6, ASIN#7, ASIN#8, ASIN#9

Indeed, the shortcode is the easiest to show products using ASINs.

It works but will not display more than 6 items in the list even though we have 9 ASINs in the shortcode.

Indeed, certain items are not found in their database so not always all the requested items are found. We cannot do anything about it, sorry.

It works but will not display more than 6 items in the list even though we have 9 ASINs in the shortcode. We have general setting set to display max of 10 items. Is there a shortcode variable like max_items=”10″ or something that will over ride the defaults??

As you have already found, count="10" would do the job.

I think the reason some of the items were not showing in the list is because possible they are adult sex toys…is there some limitation on the API in the settings for plugin that is not allowing adult items to be displayed? Is there a shortcode variable to over-ride the adult item on/off display setting?

For adult products, you might need PA-API keys. There is no argument (parameter) for adult items at the moment.

We try changing the order of ASIN’s (asin=”ASIN#1, ASIN#2ASIN#3″ vs. “ASIN#3, ASIN#2, ASIN#1”) in the shortcode but it has no effect on the front end. Items are in random order…

The sort argument is supposed to handle the sort order and it accepts raw. However, they often return results ignoring the passed keyword order so the results are kind of randomized.

I’ve uploaded a development version (5.3.4b01) that takes care of the raw sort order which is the default one for the shortcode with the asin argument. So please try that.

Thanks!

What is recommended way for deactivating/uninstalling plugin and then installing/activating that dev version of plugin? I made export of plugin settings just in case settings may be lost when I uninstall current version.

Just upload the zip from Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New -> Upload Plugin (a button at the top). Don’t worry about losing saved options in this case.

I’m trying the dev plugin version and using sort=”raw” in the shortcode works like a charm! Thank you very much for your help. What other variables can be use in sort=”” in addition to “raw”?

It depends on the unit type which is internally processed depending on the shortcode arguments and whether you use PA-API. For the asin argument without PA-API, the following values are accepted for the sort argument.

• raw
• title
• title_descending
• random

By the way, you can omit sort=”raw” as it is the default for the shortcode used with the asin argument.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by miunosoft.

Thanks. I tried the following shortcode which works great for ordering items as the same order of ASINs in the shortcode. The variables title, title_descending, and random do not seem to have any effect when used in the shortcode sort=”variable”. No problem, it’s easy enough to change order of ASINs in the short code.

[amazon_auto_links count="10" sort="raw" asin="B095SZ4S71, B0722KVJM3, B01LZVDMEL "]

The variables title, title_descending, and random do not seem to have any effect when used in the shortcode sort=”variable”

Hmm, it’s working fine here. If you are certain that it won’t work properly under certain conditions, please post a bug report on the repository issue tracker.

I am only using ASINs shortcode method so have not created any units. So using the dev version you linked to I created shortcode and entered ASINs in shortcode. When I use the shortcode variable sort=”raw” it sorts the ASINs in the same order they are entered in the shortcode. If I remove the sort=”raw” then the items are listed in some other order based on ASIN values maybe alphabetically not sure. But either way, if I try to use sort=”title”, sort=”title_descending” or sort=”random” it actually produces message on front end saying no items found.

But I’m happy with the sort=”raw” variable in shortcode because we just enter the ASINs in shortcode and they are shows in that order.

Not sure if a bug report would help in this case. If I try creating new units to display that way (instead of shortcode) and the sort variable do not work, then I will do bug report.

Thank you!

The shortcode option is great. For some reason the sort=”random” variable does not seem to affect the order of items. I tested this out with all cache disabled and refreshed page a few times and the 7 products ASINS inserted in the shortcode remain in the same order on the front-end item list display. Any ideas? Thanks