Comments on: Amazon Plugin Authorization

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:07:20 +0000

sehr gutes Plugin, sehr schnell installiert. Thank you very much! LG Marcus

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:04:17 +0000

Prima, ruck zuck installiert in der Sidebar. Wie wäre es denn mit einem Widget für die Sidebar, in das man die ISBN-Nummern einträgt?

By: Ulrik

Ulrik — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:42:34 +0000

Hello, Nice plug-in btw. But I don't understand the "IP 2 Country" instructions! He just writes > "Create the table ‘iptocountry’ to store the database:" WHAT ? WHERE?

Thanks.

By: Starry Night

Starry Night — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:21:21 +0000

Is this plugin compatible with WPMU? I was unable to update settings in the WP admin panel (I had to add them directly into the database). When I try to update options it redirects to http://popmagick.com/wp-admin/options.php and gives the error “Error! Options page not found.”

Having added [amtap amazon:asin=1592575331] to a post, it doesn’t display after being published: http://popmagick.com/complete-idiots-guide-to-wicca-and-witchcraft/

I have got this working correctly on another website (vanilla WP, not WPMU), so I suspect it isn’t working with MU. Any suggestions?

By: Boban Alempijevic

Boban Alempijevic — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:55:35 +0000

Hi Martin,

I just installed your plug-in and got my self an account with Amazon Web Services. I entered the Access Key ID and the Secret Access Key in the config fields. When I updated the settings I got an error I am pretty sure I cant do anything about, but I will still ask here if anyone knows a work around...

"Your server is located in a private IP address space. Amazon Web Services cannot fetch the file that is required to validate the access key."

I am running my site on servage.net

By: Gary Griswold

Gary Griswold — Mon, 03 May 2010 01:37:12 +0000

The shorttag into a post works consistently for me, but the machine tags into the sidebar only seems to work with some themes. This is true even though, I have embedded the snippet of code into the sidebar.php of each theme tried. Is there any help that you can offer to explain why this might be true, or what might be done about it? Also, it is unclear why the snippet of code in the side bar is required. Why doesn't an add_action work? It seems like the correct solution to all of this is a widget. So, it would be helpful to understand what code would need to be executed by the widget.

By: Martin Kliehm

Martin Kliehm — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:53:04 +0000

Hi Josiah,

if you look into the XSL files (amtap-html-content.v3.xsl and amtap-html-sidebar.v3.xsl) you'll see commented blocks of XSL code. If you don't want an image, remove the code block beneath the comment <-- Item image -->. There's also a block titled “Price,” where different prices are pulled in. If you change the XSL I'd recommend to save a working copy of the file first. After you have changed it, validate that the document is still well-formed (only check the well-formed checkbox). Also it seems like Amazon (and my plugin) caches your request, so set the cache age option to “1” and be patient for a few minutes until the Amazon proxy requests a new XSL file.

If that sounds too complicated: yes, I agree. ;) I'm considering an optional set-up where users can choose which items they would like to show along with their price preferences etc., but I can't predict when I will find the time...

By: Josiah Staggs

Josiah Staggs — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:28:29 +0000

Hey Martin,

I love the plugin! I'm working on a new site that will be selling products that are listen on amazon. The only thing i need from Amazon as of now is the price of individual items. I'm wondering how i can go about ONLY pulling the price of a product and leaving the rest out. I hope you have the time to reply back. I'm not much of a coder so this basically a plea lol

By: Martin Kliehm

Martin Kliehm — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:13:16 +0000

Sorry for the delay. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1, and everything works fine. I think a problem might be that the WordPress upgrade process asks you to delete wpcontent/cache, so the folder is gone and with it all folder permission settings. You probably have to create the folder again and set the read/write permissions accordingly (or next time, just delete the cache folder contents, but keep the folder intact). Also the plugin writes a text file as confirmation that the key has been validated into the same folder. I admit this is annoying when you upgrade WordPress as that requires you to run the validation again on the plugin’s options page after you upgraded. It seemed like a reasonable idea to keep all files in an existing cache folder when I wrote the plugin, but looking back it would be better to keep the confirmation file in the plugin’s folder. I’ll fix that in a future version.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:25:06 +0000

Does this plugin not work with Wordpress 2.9.1? I can't get amazon machine tags to show up on any pages anymore since the update. Is there a fix for this planned?