Thanks for your debugging suggestions re the homepage ads. I’ll try and get this sorted out in the next release. Not sure what’s going on with the AdMan plugin though. Could it be a CSS conflict?

James W.

2.8.6 also incorrectly shows ads on my home page when I have the phrase entered for the post with “home” unchecked in the display options.

Yeah, you will need to enable the mcrypt module for PHP in order to use the plugin.

Glad you got it sorted out,
James W.

Apologies – seems my server installation is a little past-it.

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mcrypt_module_open() in /home/sites/www.icounsellor.co.uk/web/
wp-content/plugins/amazonfeed/php/amazonfeed.class.php on line 1582, referer: http://www.icounsellor.co.uk/wp-admin/tools.php?page=amazonfeed/php/amazonfeed.class.ph
p&amazonFeedAdminPage=options

Documentation (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-module-open.php) says mcrypt_module_open available in PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5 … and I’m using PHP 5.2.6 … so peculiar error.

Go to Tools / AmazonFeed and enter in the relevant information. FYI I also change Locate to United Kingdom.

When pressing Save the control panel returns “Locale Change Detected” and nothing else is shown – no errors – no confirmation of success.

Going back to the Tools / AmazonFeed page shows that none of my configuration data has been saved.

WordPress 2.8.6 – standard installation, nothing fancy.

Glad you got it figured out. I actually upgraded warkensoft.com to WP 2.8.6 and it worked just fine with AmazonFeed, so I was having a hard time duplicating the problem. I’ll have to try it in Opera and see if I can make it die. Would be good to find the problem if possible.

Just FYI, I’m hoping to release a new version of AmazonFeed soon with better layout, more options and is Widget friendly.

Have a good one,
James W.

Figuring that less is easier to debug, I re-set Permalink Settings to “Default.” And now I get an “Internal Server Error” from /wp-admin/submit even when just trying to update: Amazon Feed Management >> Options >> Display

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And on a whim, I tried it in Firefox…

The problem is Opera (9.62). Works fine in Firefox (2.x) (bitches I didn’t set the Associate Tag, but Saves fine). Now I’m completely baffled how a browser can fubar a server, but at least it’s solved, and you can add a note in the readme about Opera barfing.

@Dave,

Well, I’m going to have to do custom migration scripts anyway, so…, I’ll see what I can do to auto create search phrases and insert them into WP as well. I’ll post the link here after I hack together the SQL. But, it definitely won’t be completed this year

Thanks all for the quick responses,
Michael

Sorry, the only “automated” way is using tags or categories.

Since I didn’t put this in until well after I had a couple years worth of post, I just added this to my highest traffic pages.

“I’ve found I get much better results if I use a search phrase”

Okay, admittedly I haven’t gotten the plugin to work , but do you have a link to the howto/wherefor of using a “search phrase?”

One of the sites we’re looking at to convert has 4000-5000 posts, and if there is an automated method to create a search phrase to get better results, then we’re definitely interested.

Thanks,
Michael

I’m testing out WP as a posibility for Drupal replacement, as Drupal doesn’t really have any non-alpha Amazon modules. Other than a test post and comment the only thing I’ve changed is the Permalink Settings[*]:

Custom Structure /%postname%

For testing I deleted the entire amazonfeed plugin folder, re-unziped it, re-activated it, then:

Amazon Feed Management
>> http://wp.michaels-musings.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=amazonfeed/php/amazonfeed.class.php
Enter AWS Access Key and AWS Secret Access Key (don’t have Associate Tag, so left blank)
Click, “Save”

Returns: Error 404 – Not Found
>> http://wp.michaels-musings.com/wp-admin/submit

So, at this point I’m stuck, as I don’t know enough about the WP system to even determine if it’s the WP install or the plugin.

If you need anything else, I’m happy to provide it,

Michael

cPanel Version 11.24.5-RELEASE
Apache version 2.2.11 (Unix)
MySQL version 5.0.85-community
Linux version 2.6.18-028stab062.3 (root@rhel5-64-build) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP

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I did check the .htaccess, as there there is some statement about Permalink and rewrites going wonky, but my .htaccess matches what I’ve found as being “correct” (below) and posts are being displayed.


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Once I did that I started seeing a significant improvement. Of course, now that the holiday season is upon us, I’m starting to see some real good results.

I’ll have to take a look. I haven’t heard of anyone else having problems with it in 2.8.6, but it’s possible.

Could you use my contact page and send me the link that resulted in the 404 on your site?
http://www.warkensoft.com/contact/

James

I tried it based upon this statement, “All you have to do is continue writing about your favorite subjects and the plugin will offer related products to your visitors.”

Is there a fix or is this plugin dead?

Michael

Details:
Test site is at: http://wp.michaels-musings.com
WP: 2.8.6
AmazonFeed: Stable tag: 1.7 (per readme.txt)

Those are some great suggestions. I’ll have to keep those in mind for future versions.

James

It seems you do a search for product one tag at a time, which can generate some pretty strange results(at least for me). I’m not a PHP programmer (or I’d make this change myself) but I’ve been able to read enough of your code to see that much.

If I copy and paste all of my tags (comma delimited) into the Amazon search box, I get much more relevant results. Maybe giving us the option to select which of the two ways we’d like to search would help.

I’d also like some way of telling it to show higher priced items first. I can make a lot more money on a $50 item than a $20 item and I’d much rather show a $200 item if that is available.

Just some thoughts.

‘from the mail : n addition to the new name, signatures will be necessary to authenticate each call to the Product Advertising API. This requirement will be phased in starting May 11, 2009, and by August 15, 2009, all calls to the Product Advertising API must be authenticated or they will not be processed. For pointers on how you can easily authenticate requests to the Product Advertising API, please refer to the developer guide, available at http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/

thanks