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.
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great works, for updating. your plugin work very well
Hi Peter, thanks for the feedback. I am glad to hear that.
I want to use ASA Sidebar Widget arrange in horizontally (Leaderboard). How can I modify the code??
Hi Peter,
please check out the Step-by-step guide at https://www.amazon.com/dp//?tag= where it is explained how to create your own customized templates. When you have placed your custom file in the tpl directory, it will appear in the widget’s template selector drop-down.
hallo timo,
currently I am using this plugin, it’s really cool, but I have a question..
is there possibility to add amazon customer review to the post?
Hi Ande,
customer reviews are not supported at the moment, but I already have this feature request on my list. Maybe it will come with one of the next updates.
This is a great plugin. Just have a few suggestions.
In AsaCore.php, there is a line says:
<img src="plugin_dir; ?>/img/misc_add_small.gif” /> Add Amazon item (ASIN):
“bloginfo(‘url’) should really be “bloginfo(‘wpurl’) because not everyone install wordpress in root directory.
2nd suggestion is if you can make the collections form automatically select the collection that is last used by the add function? So people don’t have to make the collection’s selection every time when they are adding to the same collection.
Thanks.
Hi Max,
thanks for your feedback. I will check that and give you another reply.
Hello Timo,
I updated the plugin a few minutes ago from version 0.9.10 to the newest version. The custom templates are deleted, only the “normal” templates are in the tpl-folder.
No problem, it’s alle backuped but I didn’t expect to fix it … Anywhy, I hope the feedback will help to improve this great plugin.
greets, Ralf
Hi Ralf,
thanks for your feedback. What exactly do you mean with “normal” templates? Those in the built-in directory?
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Hey Timo,
I was wondering if you could integrate a placeholder option in case a particular piece of information (e.g. price, customer rating etc.) is not or not yet available on Amazon.
Right now if a piece of information is unavailable, there is only blank space which can mess up with your design…
Thanks in advance!
Finn
PS: Love your plugin!
Hi Finn,
thanks for your feedback. I am planning to support conditions in the templates. So you could check if a value is empty and display something else instead.
By the way, I am unable to deactivate the debugging. Whenever I tick the box and update the options, the debugging is still ticked and activated afterwards. Might be a bug.
Hm, this is confusing. It works on my installations no matter which update button I click. I guess it should be an individual issue depending on your installation.
Please deactivate it manually because it is not recommended to keep the debug mode activated over a long time. Check for the option_name “_asa_debug” in your wp_options database table and set it to 0.
Thanks from Germany! Definitely the best Amazon-Plugin!
Thanks for the compliment 😉
Is the plugin compatible with WP 3.3.1?
Hi Lola, yes of course.
Just want to say thanks for this great plugin!
Cheers!
Hi Holger, thank you. It’s my pleasure… 😉
Hey Timo,
I guess I discovered a bug in your plugin.
When there are more than 1000 customer reviews for an item, the plugin shows only 1 customer review. How can I fix this?
Best,
Finn
Hi Finn,
sorry for that. I already know that bug. It is fixed and will be released with the next official update. Meanwhile you can fix it by replacing the file AsaCustomerReviews.php in the plugin root directory. You can get the fixed file here: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/amazonsimpleadmin/trunk/AsaCustomerReviews.php
Thanks for using my plugin.
Cool, thanks!
By the way, I found another one.
I tried using {$AmazonPrice} instead of the {$AmazonPriceFormatted} placeholder, because I wanted my currency to be “€” instead of “EUR”. However, some of the items (the ones where there are only used offers and no new one) still display the EUR at the end instead of just showing the amount (how it should be).
Is there a fix for this or is there any other way to display the amazon price with the € currency sign instead of EUR?
Thanks in advance!
PS: I just donated 5 € 😉
Hi Finn,
thanks for the donation! 🙂
I checked what happens if there is no Amazon price. The plugin automatically sets the lowest offer formatted price for the Amazon price so that this placeholder is not empty. Maybe this is inconsistent and I should rather use the NOT formatted lowest offer price or even no auto set price at all? I could fix this for the next version and provide you with a test version.
Yeah, I guess it would be better to use the non-formatted lowest offer price if there is no other price available.
You don’t have to, but it would be cool if you could send me a test version 😉
By the way, I’ve got an idea for a new feature to be added.
It would be cool to have the option to have a different tag for every template instead of having only one global tag.
It could be implemented like this:
[asa templatename tag=another-partner-id-21]XXXXXXXXX[/asa]
Hi Finn,
thanks, i added it to my feature request list 🙂
Nice plugin Timo…
i’ve basic question if you don’t mind:
I often notice that it showed “price:-” and “0 used & new available from”. is that mean the product isn’t available at that time? if it does, it would be great if the plugin can alert about products’ availability (on dashboard) so we won’t advertise an empty stuff 🙂
great works
thanks
Hi Natan,
thanks for your feedback. I have something like this on my feature request list already. It’s a good idea and this will be possible in future versions.
Thanks for using ASA!