I’m still trying to get WP-Amazon to work, so consider my newbie-ness when evaluating this comment…
It’s not clear which ID you mean, When I go to Options > Amazon my Associate ID appears OK. The Subscription ID appears to be an ID used by developers to access Amazon’s web services; “Amazon ECS developers must use an ECS Subscription ID in order to access Amazon’s web service.”
Any chance that you upgraded to the current version, 1.3.2 . and that process defaulted to either ID?
I don’t know what WP-Amazon does for ID stuff — CG-Amazon does ALL queries using the CG ID, and then randomly gives 80% of the links your ID. For one point release like a year ago I had accidentally flipped the logic, and all of a sudden folks were only seeing 20% of links with their ID — quickly remedied that.
Anyhow, I’m with Charlie on this one — did you upgrade recently, where your ID might have gotten wiped out? That sounds plausible.
-d
I’m thinking that perhaps this did happen during or after my upgrade to Wp 2.0. But why/how would such an upgrade wipe out the Amazon ID I’d entered into the plugin’s settings? I wish there was a way to avoid such an issue since upgrading is a pretty frequent occurrence regarding WP.
I don’t know where ID’s are stored. I store them in PHP, they are dynamically generated into EVERY link. Doesn’t WP-Amazon insert static HTML directly into your post for you (rather than dynamically generating stuff on the fly)?
If it was stored in a data file that got wiped, or it wiped stuff because of the version change, or it was stored in some table that WP wiped, or it was stored in a file in an old theme that your new theme doesn’t include… etc.
WP-Amazon stores the Associate ID in the WordPress options table in the database (ever since version 1.3). If that gets wiped out, the code is designed to default to manalangcom-20. You can change this by editing the wp-amazon.php file. Near line 48, there’s this line of code:
$AssociateTag = 'manalangcom-20';
That’s the default setting. Change that to your own and you don’t have to worry about it any more.
Otto42: thanks for that tip. That’s a good one. I wish Rick had mentioned that when I wrote to him about this some time ago.
DavidChait: Yes, the plugin does insert the code directly into the post (along w. the ID).
