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How can I report a bug? request help? request a feature?

If you find a bug in the WordPress Amazon Associate plugin then please let me know by emailing it to matt@mdbitz.com or posting the issue in the Support Forums. You can also report it through my trac project using the login credential of "user" with password "guest". Another way you can reach me is through my website

Do I need to configure the Amazon Web Service Keys

No, however by not inputing a valid Amazon Web Service credential you will not be able to insert amazon product links and images through ShortCode, the content editor's tinyMCE control or the Quick Links Module.

Does this plugin support Multi-Author websites?

Yes! As of version 1.4 of the plugin we have included a Multi-User module that if enabled allows authors to set their Amazon Associate Ids on the users profile page. Product links in page/post content will then be tagged with the author's associate ids, and if not set will default to the ids configured on the WP - Amazon * > *Settings page.

Version 2.0 and later of the plugin enable sites administrators to define a percentage of links where the administrator's associate id will be used instead of the author's associate id.

What is Link Localization?

Link Localization is the generation of a product link that is localized to the users version of Amazon. To give a quick example if you have your default locale set to United States and a visitor of your website is from France then they would be presented with a link to the amazon.fr website instead of amazon.com. This is an optional feature that makes use of the free ip2nation database. To make things as easy as possible the WPAA plugin includes the ability to detect if you have ip2nation installed and if not install it for you.

Can I choose which locales to support?

Yes, not everyone will want to support link localization for all of Amazon's Locales. This is why we have built in the ability to disable locales you don't want to support. If a visitor from a disabled locale visits your website they will be presented with a product link localized to your default locale.

Why is Product Preview not working for my website?

At this time there is a confirmed bug with the Amazon Product Preview code that in some wordpress themes the previews do not occur. This error is due to the Amazon script including it's own version of jQuery into the page causing a conflict. To resolve the issue an optional jQuery.noConflict call to remap jQuery is included if selected by the user on the admin screen. If product preview still does not function for your website review your page source to see if additional jQuery versions are loaded, if so they need to be set to noConflict.
Also at this time product preview is only supported for 1 locale at a time. We are in the process of reviewing the code to see if this can be overwritten to allow for product previews of all locales instead.

My website currently uses other plugins for displaying Amazon Widgets, How can I switch to your plugin without rewriting my existing content?

In version 1.1 we introduced a new compliance module to the plugin. This enables you to make WPAA compliant with the ShortCode used in various other WordPress plugins for rendering Amazon Widgets. For the full list of compliant plugins visit WP - Amazon > Compliance in your WordPress Admin pages. From this page you can also import your Amazon Associate Tags/Ids from the Amazon Link and Amazon Link Localizer plugins.

Does WordPress Amazon Associate support I18n localization?

Yes, we have built the plugin to support localization, and have provided a wpaa.pot file in the languages folder of the plugin. If you have a translation for the plugin please send the po/mo files to matt@mdbitz.com and I can incorporate it into the project for other users.