After several nights of hard work I finally updated the ASA homepage. The facelift is nice, but the real new features are the german translations and the forums.
Constantly receiving mails from the german speaking part of the world (what is where I am coming from too by the way), I decided to start this page multilingual. As of now I will post the news in english and german. You can switch the language with the language selector on top of the sidebar.
Another step forward is the launch of the forums. Writing some lines in the comments is nice, but if a discussion goes into detail it gets kind of cumbersome. Extensive discussions fit better into a forum I think. So I hope we will have a lively exchange in the forums.
Today I released a new update to version 0.9.10.2. In the main, this version brings a better error handling and a debug mode. This can come in handy when it comes to errors with your connection to the Amazon webservice. When the connection to the webservice results in an error, it will be shown on the plugin’s setup panel. A list of common errors can be found here: http://www.wp-amazon-plugin.com/faq/#setup_errors
The debug mode can be activated on the setup panel by clicking the option “Activate debugging”. The debugging information will be shown in the textbox below this option. Do not forget to deactivate debugging when you do not need it anymore.
After the update you will find the option “
Some minor bugfixes round up this update.
One week after releasing version 0.9.10 I committed a new bugfix release 0.9.10.1 today. It fixes a bug when a PHP error occured (Class ‘Asa’ not found in …/AsaCore.php on line 384). This could happen on auto-updates through your WordPress backend.
(Thanks to Axel for the screenshot)
If version 0.9.10 works fine for you already, you do not necessarily need this update. The backup mechanism for custom templates, which came which the last version, should now work if you auto-update. But to be completely sure, please backup your files anyway.
Please let me know, if you have any problems with this plugin.
A new version of AmazonSimpleAdmin is online! This one is ready for the upcoming changes in the Amazon webservice API which was tested today and caused some errors with the old version.
The feature description from the official Changelog:
The new backup mechanism of your custom templates will first take effect after this update, so you should backup your custom files for one last time.
Please let me know what you think about the update. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Another advice: If you update the plugin manually (by uploading the files via FTP), be sure to empty the cache. It could be that the faulty content is still cached.
Hi Asa-Users,
due to some changes in the Amazon API, you could discover some problems on your website where the Amazon products should show up. I am working on a new update of AmazonSimpleAdmin to support the new API. I will hopefully release it within the next couple of days. This new version also will support the Amazon stores Italy, Spain and China and comes along with some other bugfixes and a solution to keep your custom templates when updating. But for this next update you still have to backup your templates once again.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Today I released a hotfix release due to some errors that could occur when using customer reviews. The errors occured when requesting the customer reviews page from Amazon. Unfortunately the webservice doesn’t retrieve this information directly for some time now so I created this workaround for version 0.9.9.1.
Either the Amazon severs have some trouble or the plugin requests got locked out by Amazon. Whatever happened, I changed the way of requesting (put php curl as preffered way) and implemented some more error handling so that the problems should no longer bother you in the new version.
Keep in mind to backup your template files before updating as I experienced WordPress to delete my old directory completey before extracting the new version’s archive. This is kind of inconvenient as I solved this issue with the last update (0.9.9.2). But the hotfix is more important right now and I try to find a way for keeping the template files again in future.
And check if your cache directory is still writable.
Please let me know what you think about the new version and this plugin in general.
Today I released the new version 0.9.9.2 of Amazon Simple Admin.
Here is the list of changes:
If you have any questions about the new versions please check out the Step by Step Guide, write or comment or contact me by mail.
Finally I published this website dedicated for supporting my WordPress plugin Amazon Simple Admin. In the future you will get informed about the developement of the plugin on this page. Furthermore you can contact me using the comment function below the posts or by using the contact form.
It is my desire to constantly improve this plugin. To achieve this goal, I need your support. So as in the past on the old page I am looking forward to your feedback, wether it is an error message, a feature request or a just a praise.
With Amazon Simple Admin it is very easy to integrate Amazon products into your WordPress post.
To include a Amazon product into your post you only have to enclose the Amazon product ID (ASIN) with the Asa tags [asa]…[/asa].
For example:
Bambi (Two-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) Price: $34.94 106 used & new available from $12.34
(373 customer reviews)
You get the ASIN code from the Amazon product page in the product details section. In case of books it is the ISBN number.
Check out the Step by Step Guide for more information.
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