Bondoc

Thanks again – that’s very reassuring … I’ll follow your method of doing things in the future.

Thanks for your advice – I appreciate it. That is good news for now although my concern will be for the future as it means the situation I have got myself into means I will either have to work out how to switch the site to a child theme or never make any changes to php files etc, I guess?
Thanks again for taking the time to offer advice.

Thank you

Hi – thanks for your swift response, as always. I’ll stick with the iframe option. Regarding the other matter my site is not live yet, in that I’ve blocked crawling and have an ‘under construction’ home page. I’m using the OceanWP theme. I’ll leave things as they are rather than trying to tweak CSS etc, unless it just involved pasting a bit of code into the theme’s Custom CSS/JS area in ‘Customise’. Thanks again.

Great – all good now. Thanks for your patience and help along the way.

Hi – I updated and it works great now!! Thanks. You mentioned earlier: “After creating a unit, you can insert the unit output by shortcode, widget, or auto-insert.”
Sorry, but I can’t see where I do this – I can’t see where to get a shortcode from – is it in the ‘Edit Unit’ window somewhere? Thanks again for your superb support.

Hi – thanks for that. I hadn’t realised there was a newer version since the one you told me about earlier in this thread (4.0.6b01). I will update as soon as I can. From what you say, I suspect that has been the issue and everything will be fine! Thanks again for your help.

Hi – I’ve been choosing the ‘Item Look Up’ option all along, since you sorted out the bug recently where that option was not working.

When I choose ‘Item Look up’ and ‘Proceed’ it takes me to the ‘Add Unit by Search – Product Search’ window. But this is where I’m unable to see the option to add ASINS. You say ‘ In the ASINs option, enter your desired ASINs’ but I can’t see a location to add the ASINS. All I see are the fields for: Unit Name, Search Keyword, Query per Term, Category, Sort Order, Associate ID, Associate ID, Number of Items, Image Size, Direct Link Bonus, Title Length, Description Length, Link Style, Credit Link and Auto Insert.

When I then click CREATE I’m taken to the ‘Edit Unit’ page. As mentioned earlier, the only reference to ASINs I can see on this page is White List and Black List fields for ASINS.

Is there an ASINS location somewhere else where I can directly add ASINS for specific products? – if so, I can’t see it.
Thanks

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Bondoc.

Hi – I’m conscious of taking up your time so I may put the matter on hold for a while. I think my main issue relates to not adding the ASINS in the right location – the ‘ASINs option’ you refer to. Where exactly is this? On the ‘Edit Unit’ window I can only see two references to ASINS – both in the Unit product Filters area (White List ASIN and Black List ASIN). I assume I don’t add the ASINs I require anywhere there? So where is the main area where I add the list of ASINs for the specific products I wish to display in a unit? It is probably staring me in the face, but I can’t see where I should be addin the ASINs – sorry!

In the unit criteria I’ve chosen the first link style (https://www.amazon.[domain-suffix]/%5Bproduct-name%5D/dp/%5Basin%5D/ref=%5B…%5D?tag=%5Bassociate-id%5D… (Default)).

Thanks

Hi – sorry to bother you, again – I didn’t get back to you earlier as I’ve been busy at work. I’m obviously doing something wrong – I left most of the fields as they are, other than entering a few ASINs in the ASINS WHITE LIST area – when I click the ‘View Unit’ link on the top right of the page I get the error message: ‘Amazon Auto Links: 400: Bad Request ; InvalidParameterValue: The value provided in the request for Keywords is invalid.’

Thanks for your help. I tried to create a unit for 3 specific Amazon products. A new page/post was created just for the unit – is that correct? Nothing shows on the page, other than the error message ‘Amazon Auto Links: PAAPIError: NoResults: No results found for your request’, but maybe that’s because I added 3 asins at the same time to the ‘search keyword’ field, with commas separating them. I’ve been able to achieve what I want by a workaround of simply adding the ASINs to a unit previously created in the defunct Amazon WordPress plug which, of course, Amazon Auto Links does a fantastic job of converting.

OK thanks – I might just wait until a new version is available (if you plan one) which I can install the usual update way within my dashboard – I ony say this as I’m not very good with settings etc and I have things the way I want them in AAL at the moment. I don’t want to lose all my settings if I uninstall the plugin to intall the development one.

Hi – thanks for that. No need for apologies – I’m just delighted you are so efficient at providing excellent support. Sorry to sound dumb, but I don’t normally update plugins by the manual method – I chose to update from your zip file via plugins>add new>Add Plugins>Upload Plugin.

The install process takes place and then I get the error message ‘Destination folder already exists – plugin installation failed.

Maybe you could advise what I’m doing wrong? I assume the plugin has not updated – when I select ‘Add Unit By Search’, I then choose the ‘Item Look Up’ button and ‘Proceed’. The next screen is headed ‘Add Unit by Search – Product Search’. It has a long list of info fields, starting with Unit Name, Seach Keyword, Query Per Term, Category, Sort Order etc etc. Should I be seeing something different if the plugin had updated correctly? Thanks.

Hi – just wondered if you’ve managed to make any progress with attempting to fix the bug? Thanks.

Hi – thanks for getting back to me. I’ll wait until I hear that you have managed to fix the bug. Thanks again.