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ShopSpot adds shoppable hotspots to your post's featured image. Place a pulsing dot anywhere on the photo, tag it with a product - name, price, image, and a buy link - and visitors tap the dot to see the product and click through, right where their attention already is.<\/p>\n\n

Every product is entered by hand. There are no Amazon API keys to configure, no rate limits to worry about, and no outbound requests of any kind - ShopSpot never phones home to Amazon or anyone else.<\/p>\n\n

Not just for Amazon<\/h4>\n\n

Every product has a Vendor<\/strong>: Amazon, another affiliate program, or your own site. The buy button's label, the link's rel<\/code> attributes, and the disclosure text shown beneath the image all follow the vendor automatically - so a hotspot pointing at your own product page behaves correctly too, not only Amazon links.<\/p>\n\n

Built for reuse<\/h4>\n\n

Products live as their own reusable entries on a dedicated Products screen. Feature the same headphones in five different posts and you create the product once, then just pick it from a list everywhere else - update the price or the link in one place and every post tagging it stays current.<\/p>\n\n

Key features<\/h4>\n\n
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  • Click-to-place hotspots on any post's featured image, with drag-to-reposition and one-click reassignment to a different product<\/li>\n
  • Reusable Product entries - name, image, price, ASIN, and buy link - taggable on any number of posts<\/li>\n
  • Three Vendor types (Amazon, Other Affiliate, My Own Site) that automatically drive button text, link attributes, and disclosure wording<\/li>\n
  • Three Product Types (Physical, Digital, Service), each with its own relevant fields (Platform, Duration)<\/li>\n
  • Retire a product by switching it to Draft - it disappears from every post it's tagged on immediately, without deleting it or breaking existing hotspots<\/li>\n
  • Duplicate-product detection while creating a new product, so the same item doesn't end up created twice by accident<\/li>\n
  • A Settings screen for Country, Currency (shown as the Price field's symbol), and the Amazon disclosure message, including a toggle to hide it and a field to customize its wording<\/li>\n
  • Warns before leaving a post with unsaved hotspot changes<\/li>\n
  • No external requests, no tracking, no bundled analytics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

    Copyright<\/h3>\n\n

    ShopSpot is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It bundles no\nthird-party libraries and makes no external requests.<\/p>\n\n\n

      \n
    1. Upload the shopspot<\/code> folder to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>, or install it through the Plugins screen in your WordPress admin.<\/li>\n
    2. Activate the plugin.<\/li>\n
    3. Go to Products > Settings and set your Country and Currency.<\/li>\n
    4. Add a product or two under Products > Add New Product.<\/li>\n
    5. Edit any post with a Featured Image set - a \"Product Hotspots\" box appears below the content editor. Click the image to place a hotspot and assign a product.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
      \n

      Does this need an Amazon API key or Product Advertising API access?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

      No. Everything - name, price, image, link - is entered by hand. ShopSpot makes no outbound requests to Amazon or anyone else.<\/p><\/dd>\n

      Can I use this for non-Amazon affiliate links, or my own products?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

      Yes. Every product has a Vendor field: Amazon, Other Affiliate, or My Own Site. Button text, link attributes, and the disclosure message all adjust automatically based on which one you pick.<\/p><\/dd>\n

      Will this slow down my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

      The hotspot script and stylesheet only load on a singular post that actually has a hotspot-tagged image. Nothing loads sitewide, and there are no external requests.<\/p><\/dd>\n

      What happens if I stop selling a product?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

      Switch it to Draft instead of deleting it. It disappears from your posts immediately, but the hotspot placements stay intact in case you reactivate it later.<\/p><\/dd>\n

      Does it work with any theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

      Yes. Hotspots are added by wrapping the theme's own featured-image output, not by overriding any template file, so it works with any theme using the standard the_post_thumbnail()<\/code> function - effectively all of them.<\/p><\/dd>\n

      Where do hotspots appear - just the featured image?<\/h3><\/dt>\n

      Yes, currently only on the single-post featured image (not archive\/grid thumbnails, and not images inside the post content). That's a deliberate choice to keep things simple and fast.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

      1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
        \n
      • Internal code improvements & Security fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
          \n
        • Initial release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Shoppable hotspots for your post images - tag a product once, reuse it everywhere, no API keys required.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/365763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365763"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/entronn"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=365763"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=365763"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=365763"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=365763"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=365763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}