DISQUS

Peter · 1 year ago

Re: Josh~
Yes at this time it only support Amazon US.

Josh~ · 1 year ago

Does it support only amazon US?

Khristopher · 1 year ago

Make it work with Amazon Canada, and you'll have a fan!

Peter · 1 year ago

Khristopher,

I'm working on it.

Gareth · 1 year ago

any chance of making next release work with Amazon UK?

Peter · 1 year ago

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.

John · 1 year ago

I get this error since the last two updates:

"
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

"

Jermayn · 1 year ago

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

Jamison Fitzgerald · 1 year ago

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.

Totally her · 1 year ago

I may have to give this a try on our WP site. thanks!

Pdesign · 1 year ago

great post. Thank for plugin

Ryan Price · 12 months ago

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.

daniel lench · 11 months ago

Looking good Peter! Updates installed and everything runs great.

plioz · 10 months ago

hey, i've been looking for this kind of plugin ... but why only U.S Amazon ?

Peter · 10 months ago

Not just US.
From the Features List:
Works with Amazon.com and locales Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk.

Motion Picture Central · 10 months ago

Thanks for the quick update. It works swell!

Antonio Ferraioli · 10 months ago

I have removed the widget from my template because it makes my website very slow

Peter · 10 months ago

I'm working on version 2.4 right now that should increase the speed.

This version is running on the site right now and the best evidence I have of the improvement is on this page
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2009/02/09/amazon-...

Before it took almost 12 seconds to load this page because it called Amazon 4 times (1 in the sidebar, 3 times in the article itself). Currently the load time is about 4 - 5 seconds.

If you want I can send the Release Candidate of version 2.4 to you to give it try.

bali wedding · 10 months ago

i will try it also on my new wedding blog

Lingvemulo · 10 months ago

Hi - I have a funny problem... the widget won't "stick" when I try to add it to the sidebar. I add it, click "save changes", and when the page reloads... poof! It's back on the left side again. I'm puzzled... I've never had a widget refuse to live in my sidebar before!

Peter · 10 months ago

You seem to have a problem connecting to Amazon.
Technical info: I try to retrieve information with the function fsockopen and on your site it doesn't seems to work.

This should be resolved with version 2.4 of my plugin. I don't know when this version will be released.

SEO Directory · 9 months ago

Does this plugin works with the latest wordpress ? Nonetheless a great plugin.

Peter · 9 months ago

Yes it does. Up to 2.7.1 as this is the latest stable as I write this.

MotionPictureCentral.com · 9 months ago

The new update 2.3.4 still does not perform properly.

On http://motionpicturecentral.com/blog/2009/02/21..., AVH Amazon provides this link: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HVR-Z7U-Professional... - which DOES work.

On http://motionpicturecentral.com/blog/2009/02/21..., AVH Amazon provides this link: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HVR-Z5U-Definition-H... - which does NOT work.

It seems the failure is related to the link Amazon provides the AVH Amazon plugin. We have discovered that short links fail. The short links are the sinple direct Amazon links with www.amazon.com and ending with the ASIN. The more complex links do not. These are the amazon links with extra tracking information between the ASIN and the Associate ID &tag.

We have been able to figure out that letting the short link fail at Amazon's site and then manually inserting a ? or a / after the ASIN and just before &tag=[Associate ID] will cause the link to continue properly to the the related product; however, we do not know if Amazon is properly tracking this. Plus, we don't know where to manually change AVH's code to fix the problem.

MotionPictureCentral.com · 9 months ago

The new update 2.3.4 still does not perform properly. It seems the failure is related to what link Amazon provides the AVH Amazon plugin.

We have discovered that the short links fail (the links beginning with www.amazon.com and ending with the ASIN). On http://motionpicturecentral.com/blog/2009/02/21..., AVH Amazon provides this link: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HVR-Z5U-Definition-H... - which does NOT work.

The more complex links do work (those with extra tracking information between the ASIN and the Associate ID tag. On http://motionpicturecentral.com/blog/2009/02/21..., AVH Amazon provides this link: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HVR-Z7U-Professional... - which DOES work.

Letting the short link fail at Amazon's site and then manually inserting a ? or a / after the ASIN and just before &tag=[Associate ID] will cause the link to continue properly the the related product; however, we do not know if Amazon is properly tracking the manual fixes, plus we don't know where to manually change AVH's code to fix the problem.

Celebrations Wedding Flowers · 7 months ago

Thanks for this wedding gift plugin. We are an event florist in Napa Valley and we are seeing many of our client use websites to help organize and remember their weddings. We will definitely pass this link on to our wedding flower customers.

Mark · 7 months ago

Does this work with multiple authors? (it looks great)

Peter · 7 months ago

Yes it will work with multiple authors but, and I think your real question is if each author can have their own associate ID. There can only be one associate id for the entire blog.

If you want an associate ID per author let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Anonymous · 6 months ago

Could You please tell me if it's working with Amazon.de? Thanks in advance.

Peter · 6 months ago

Yes it does

Edwin · 6 months ago

Plugin doesn't want to work anymore.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sha256() in /home/edwink/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/avh-amazon/2.8/inc/avh-amazon.sha256.inc.php on line 304

Peter · 6 months ago

Thanks for reporting.
I just released version 3.0.1 which should have this fixed.

Edwin · 6 months ago

Seems to be working. Thanks :)

Peter · 6 months ago

You're welcome (Graag gedaan ;) )

Star Characters · 6 months ago

Inputting an AWS Secret Access Code in the plugin settings causes "unknown failure with Rest Call". Removing the AWS SEcret Code seems to solve the problem.

Peter · 6 months ago

Besides the secret code, you also need to put in your AWS Key.

Star Characters · 6 months ago

Exactly! It should work that way.

However... Entering Both the AWS Key and the AWS SEcret Key in version 3.0.4 caused the "unknown failure with REST CAll" error.

Removing the AWS SEcret Key cleared the error and allowed the AVH Amazon plugin to continue operating normally.

Radio Maria · 6 months ago

We had the same error and applied the same solution.

Removing the AWS SEcret Key and leaving the AWS Key in place allowed 3.0.4 to work properly.

Peter · 6 months ago

I opened a topic on my Support Forum, if the suggestion below doesn't work, let's continue the discussion there.
On the page where you got your secret key, you can regenerate your secret key. Use this key for the plugin.

Motion Picture Central · 6 months ago

We have several different sites. Each have their own AWS Keys; therefore, resetting the keys at Amazon did not work.

3.0.3 worked fine with the AWS keys. 3.0.4 did not. Something in the new code is causing the error. Peter, perhaps you can try using Query Calls instead of REST Calls to get the XML data. This may hep you find the error.

Peter · 6 months ago

Thanks for this info. I will see what I can do.
I think I will create a version with some debug functionality, to get this solved..

Peter · 6 months ago

Please upgrade to v3.0.5.
The bug should be fixed in this version.

Star Characters · 5 months ago

"Unknown Operation in rest Call" has returned in 3.0.7

Peter · 5 months ago

Please go to my support forum, that way we can discuss it a bit better

tong30 · 5 months ago

thankkkkk

nitroglicerino · 4 months ago

Hi.

Thanks so much for your plugin. It's really useful. I have a question. How can I do to center the thmbnails and the text in the sidebar?

Thanks :)

Peter · 3 months ago

I apologize for the delay, I was about to answer "Just change the CSS file etc etc" but I discovered the CSS file was not loaded. I just fixed it and will be releasing the bugfix.

When you have the new version edit the css file avh-amazon.widget.css in the plugin directory and change the following:

#avhamazon-widget .wishlistimage {
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
display:block;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

#avhamazon-widget .wishlistcaption {
font-size:100%;
text-align:center;
}

nitroglicerino · 3 months ago

Awesome! Thanks so much. It looks so good! :)

Mitch · 3 months ago

Hi there, great plugin, I have one problem, the shortcode does not open links in a new window. I have set that option in the admin options of AVH and I tried hacking some of your code pages but cannot get it to open links in _blank ???

Stephane · 3 months ago

Excellent add-on! The only feature I would like to see included is an easy way to center the books in the widgets.

Peter · 3 months ago

Edit the css file avh-amazon.widget.css in the plugin directory and change the following:

#avhamazon-widget .wishlistimage {
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
display:block;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

#avhamazon-widget .wishlistcaption {
font-size:100%;
text-align:center;
}