In the meantime: if you don’t know XSLT or CSS, don’t touch it. I do know XSLT, XML, CSS, etc., but only from ILE RPG. (PHP is coming up fast though..) Yes, I’m an oldy. I started programming on System/38, then, AS/400, iSeries, System i, i5.

I’ll just play around with it at one of my throwaway blogs. Nothing an overwriting FTP session can’t resolve there.

Thanks for the wonderful plugin. Robert

ich wollte einfach mal Danke für Dein tolles WP-Plugin sagen. Es läuft auf meinen beiden WordPress-Installationen einwandfrei.

Ich hoffe, es klappt alles mit dem API change requiring authentication update.

Beste Grüße Dieter

@Amy, I don’t know that plugin. As long as it produces tags in the usual WordPress tag format the origin shouldn’t matter.

As far as the other requests about XSLT, caching and new features are concerned: I’m considering a more flexible solution for the cache path, in particular for compatibility with WordPress MU. Also XSL transformations on your own server (with Amazon just delivering the raw XML) would be an option. Still this is of lower priority than the API update. In the meantime: if you don’t know XSLT or CSS, don’t touch it.

what about this API change requiring authentication update? Are you on it?

thx Wolfgang

Otherwise it worked like a charm! I have a music page where I can list my favorite tunes I run to and they look beautiful. Thanks!!

Thanks for this wonderful plugin. I’ve got a couple of lenghty questions for you.

1. Create a wp-content/cache/ directory with permissions set to 755, or 777 if you create the directory as root user.

Is it enough to change the following files and lines of code, to change the location of the cache folder? Or would it be better to make the cache path a new input box for an absolute path in amtap-admin.inc.php and after confirmation define AMTAP_CACHEPATH in this file instead of in amtap.php ? With a persistent default of ‘wp-content/cache/ as a relative path’. I want to create the ‘cache’ folder outside (at the same level as) my WordPress installation folder.

File amtap.php line 54 : define( 'AMTAP_CACHEPATH', ABSPATH . 'wp-content/cache/' ); // Cache path

File amtap-admin.in.php line 64 : <?php _e( 'Create a wp-content/cache/ directory with permissions set to 755, or 777 if you create the directory as root user.', 'amtap' ); ?>

File readme.txt line 29 : 1. Create a wp-content/cache/ directory with permissions set to 755, or 777 if you create the directory as root user. BTW, why are your installation steps all numbered 1 ?

2. You can edit the server-side, semantic and valid XHTML output via XSLT, change the CSS, or translate the admin interface through .po files. Actually Amazon loads the XSLT file from your server and processes it on theirs, so you shouldn’t block HTTP access to the plugin directory, and localhost doesn’t work either.

Would it be possible to have a new input box for a relative path to a “user-mods” folder in file amtap-admin.inc.php ? (In this user-mods folder there would also be ccs, and js folders and the 2 xsl files amtap-html-content.xsl and amtap-html-sidebar.xsl.) And if there is a relative path filled in, that the plugin will first look for any .css, .js, and .xsl files in the user-mods folder ? Failing that, it will use the relevant .css, .js, or .xsl file from the default distribution. So initially the user-mods folder will not even exist, and only the modified files should be in this folder. The new box with the path will be blank in the admin panel. But when entered in the admin panel, must exist. “user” folder with in it a copy of the “css”, and “languages” folders including the files, and the 2 .xsl files : amtap-html-content.xsl and amtap-html-sidebar.xsl ?

TIA, Robert

{fieldset style=”text-align:right;”} {legend}{b}Today’s “Book of the day”{/b}{/legend} (Here would go the normal code output) {/fieldset}