Linnea Huxford

Update: I just completed the first version of my plugin Organize Drafts. It allows sorting drafts into “draft types,” which I think of as folders. If you (or anyone else) tries it out, let me know what you think. If there’s interest, I may add more features.

I’d like to follow up to this post to point out that because of concerns over possibly breaking Amazon TOS, I removed the feature to check Amazon Short Link URLs.

Now, the only way that this plugin interacts with Amazon is through the official Amazon Product Advertising API. Unlike a traditional link checker, none of your Amazon links are ever followed. Rather, this plugin extracts the ASIN from your links and then uses Amazon’s API to request the product’s status.

I hope this clarification helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions.

I found your posts while searching for a solution for the same issue. I have lots of drafts and I want to organize them! I’m thinking about writing a plugin for it. I’ll update this thread if I get the plugin completed ??

Hi,

I’ve dealt with this kind of error in my own programming, and usually the solution is to go to the line that is causing the error and put a conditional statement around it that checks to make sure the variable is greater than 0 before doing a calculation.

If you’d like me to look into fixing it, please see my profile.

Hope this helps,

Linnea

I think you’re going to have to DROP TABLE, and then CREATE TABLE. Maybe this link will help:

https://www.pythian.com/blog/how-to-recreate-an-innodb-table-after-the-tablespace-has-been-removed-2/

Hope this helps!

Linnea

How about using the function wp_get_post_categories and then checking the returned category IDs to see if they are child categories?

It seems that might work. Here is a quick link to the function reference:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_categories

Good question!

The short answer is yes, affiliate IDs are stripped when they are displayed to you in the table and also in the email notifications. That way you can click on the links without worrying about breaking the TOS.

The only possible issue could be if you are using the Amazon Short Link URLs (for example: https://amzn.to/1NAaArE) because the plugin has to follow those links to find what product that they are directed to. The plugin may erroneously effect the statistics that Amazon displays about the number of clicks but the programmatic way it checks these links wouldn’t cause you to accidentally buy things on your own affiliate account.

If you don’t use the Short Links, then this plugin won’t effect the statistics shown about clicks because it uses the Amazon Product Advertising API to look up the stock status. It’s using this API in accordance with Amazon’s guidelines.

I hope this helps, and please ask if you have any more questions. I will try to reply sooner next time.

Thanks!

Linnea

Thanks for taking the time to review my plugin! I’m glad that you will find it useful! I will think about how to implement your suggestion. I may also add a settings page and button(s) to make use easier.

I just wanted to update my post to clarify that this plugin will work with Amazon links that have the ASIN as part of the URL. It’s come to my attention that there are alternative ways of linking to Amazon, like with a shortened URL, that my plugin doesn’t (yet) work with.

I’ve also made a few improvements, like this plugin now works with Multisite WordPress.

I still have plans for further improvements and would love to have your feedback if you give my plugin a try.

Thanks!

Linnea

That’s very weird! I don’t know why it isn’t working for you. What theme are you using?

Awesome! So glad I was able to help! Have a great day!

I looked at your site again and to move the content over to the right, you could add something like this:

div#container {
padding-left: 20px;
}

That code would be added to your theme’s stylesheet, by logging into WordPress Admin, and going to Appearance -> Editor and adding that to the bottom of the stylesheet. You can play around to set the padding to the number of pixels you think looks best.

Hope that helps!

The answer to your first question is to change a setting in WordPress about which page should be your front page. Here’s the instructions:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Your second problem might be fixed with some CSS, or editing your theme. I just woke up and haven’t had my first cup of coffee yet, so I think I better leave someone else to answer that in more detail.

@otto Thanks for your reply. It’s working now. I had to “Relaunch” it. Sorry, I didn’t realize that was different from restarting.

Thanks for the info! It helps to know the cause. However, I made the changes you suggested and restarted Chrome browser and still have the same problem. I am running the latest version of Chrome, Version 45.0.2454.85 m, on Windows 7 64-bit. Any other ideas? Aside from using Firefox? ??