AVH Amazon
The avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget or use a shortcode in your post or page to display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.
Current Release: Version 2.2.4 Released on: Dec 15, 2008
Download | Donate | Features | Support | Installation | FAQ
Features
The following options have been implemented:
- Use of Associated ID.
- Wish List ID.
- Configurable image size (small/medium/large).
- Find your Wish List ID.
- Multiple widgets.
- Works with Amazon.com and locales Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk.
- Multiple items from the same Wish List can be displayed in the widget.
- A configurable footer can be displayed on the bottom of the widget linking to the list on Amazon.
- A shortcode can be used in posts and pages
It’s compatible with WordPress 2.5 and higher.
Download
Donate
If you enjoy this plug-in please consider a donation. There are several ways you can show your appreciation:
- Amazon Wish List
You can send me something from my Amazon Wish List which is shown in the sidebar. - Through Paypal.
Click on the Donate button and you will be directed to Paypal where you can make your donation and you don’t have to have a Paypal account.
Installation
- Download the archive and extract all in the wp-content/plugins directory.
- Make sure the directory cache in the plug-in folder is writeable.
- Go to your WordPress administration page, click on Plugins and activate it.
- Go to the Options->AVH Amazon page and fill out your Wish List id.
- Go to the Presentation->Widget and drag the widget into the sidebar.
- Optionally you can change the Associated ID and or Wish List for this widget. This is for future implementation so you can have multiple widgets with different wish lists.
Support
If you have comments/problems/suggestions, see something in the code which is not compliant to the WordPress Plugin Codex, or just want to say “Cool! It works!”, feel free to create a post at the AVH Support Forum
FAQ
Q: What is my Wish List ID?
A: You can determine your Wish List ID by going to your Wish List page on Amazon. Click on the wish list you want to use in the plug in, even if you only have one wish list. The URL will show you something like this : http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2CC2KKW02870/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go. This, 2CC2KKW02870 is your Wish List ID.
Q: What happens if I clear the Associated ID ?
A: The plugin will use my Associated ID.
Q: When do you expect to have a final release?
A: I really don’t know, it all depends on my free time.
Q: What do you have planned for future releases?
A: I wrote a list of planned implementations on the support forum.
Entries (RSS)
Does it support only amazon US?
Re: Josh~
Yes at this time it only support Amazon US.
Make it work with Amazon Canada, and you’ll have a fan!
Khristopher,
I’m working on it.
any chance of making next release work with Amazon UK?
For Gareth.
Yep, already in progress. Maybe I’ll do a quick release with just this RFC instead of what I have planned for the next release.
I get this error since the last two updates:
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Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of avh_get_list_results(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in / W E B P A T H /wp-content/plugins/avh-amazon/2.5/inc/avh-amazon.widgets.php on line 91
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Really like teh plugin but have a weird error:
http://www.germworks.net
Warning: fopen(/home/germwork/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/avh-amazon/cache//wsdlcache-8d089f838d34c5d105c3f4b72f5e1e2a.lock) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/germwork/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/avh-amazon/inc/nusoap/class.wsdlcache.php on line 129
Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/germwork/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/avh-amazon/inc/nusoap/class.wsdlcache.php on line 131
Works great for one widget, i even customized the css to remove the box surrounding the images and configured it to leave out the titles and put the items on one row to conserve space, however when i add a second widget and save everything it just copies the contents of the first widget, even if i go back and change it back as soon as i save it will fill the contents of all the options to be the same.
I may have to give this a try on our WP site. thanks!
great post. Thank for plugin
I can’t seem to get the footer text to show up in the widget. Whenever I tick “show footer” and hit save, it seems the “Show footer” get automatically unchecked. Any ideas?
Thanks! Appreciate the work.