Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Updates”
With the new ASA2 update there are some interesting new features. PA API support for Netherlands, Singapore, Turkey, United Arab Emirates With this update ASA2 gets Amazon PA API support for the following stores Netherlands Singapore Turkey United Arab Emirates As a result, ASA2 now supports all countries currently supported by Amazon’s Product Advertising API. Binding the Repo-Post ID with a …
Keywords Search With today’s ASA2 Update 1.13.0 all ASA2 users will get another powerful feature: The keyword search. It allows us to display the products from an Amazon search query directly on a page. The search query can be made more precise by using various options. Depending on the search settings, new products can be dynamically displayed on the page …
Update: Amazon has extended PA API 4.0 support until March 9, 2020. This post has been updated accordingly. As you may have noticed, Amazon is updating its Product Advertising API (PA API) from version 4 to 5. First things first: The current version 4 of the PA API will only be supported by Amazon until March 9, 2020. From March …
WP Cron API With version 1.11 ASA2 gets a new function to use the WP Cron API. With WP Cron time-controlled commands can be executed. This makes WP Cron an alternative for server-side cron jobs that are not available on every web server. ASA2 can now use the WP Cron system to automatically and regularly update products via the Amazon …
Before the next feature update, with today’s update to version 1.10.8, there come some bug fixes and optimizations. URL Importer The Repo URL Importer (see https://docs.getasa2.com/import_url_importer.html) had problems processing search URLs. This now works again. Text link URL format The ASA2 text link shortcode (see https://docs.getasa2.com/shortcodes_asa2_textlink.html) had always used the same URL format. Now it uses the short URL format, …
Editor Button With the update 1.10.6 you can use the familiar editor button of ASA2 within the “Classic” block of Gutenberg. This is a good solution until there will be native ASA2 support for Gutenberg. The following video illustrates the process. Amazon API RequestThrottle Issue New pause option for the cronjob It has been known for some time that the …
Version 1.10.5 of ASA2 is available and brings a lot of optimizations of the included templates. Unified disclaimer options for all templates Price Disclaimer The options for the price disclaimer and the indication of the affiliate link were previously not available for all templates or were not uniform in their function. This is now guaranteed for all templates. In the …
Completely re-engineered ratings analysis The subject of product ratings is familiar to many of you. Since the Amazon API no longer delivers them, ASA2 offers the optional service to retrieve the ratings (can be disabled completely). In the past, this was done using the ratings page provided by the API. This often resulted in the so-called Captcha page, i.e. a …
Support for Australian API Recently, the Amazon Product Advertising API also supports Australia. Support for Australia has also been integrated into ASA2 with version 1.9.1. This allows you to use the Amazon Affiliate program for Australia and prepare internationalized products in ASA2 for Australia. AMP improvements Support for AMP pages introduced with the latest version of ASA2 still had some …
Local images The biggest new feature in the ASA2 update to version 1.9 is the “Local Images” function. It allows you to cache product images from the Amazon image servers in the local WordPress media library and use the local image URLs to render the product templates for your page. This prevents the IP address of site visitors from being transmitted …
