Title: Amazon Assoicate links Last modified: May 11, 2021 --- # Amazon Assoicate links * [pvancil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pvancil/) * (@pvancil) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-assoicate-links/) * First, let me say that I am really new to this, so any help would greatly be appreciated. * I am running WordPress 5.7.1 running New York Business theme. * I have a test page that I am trying to embed Amazon links. * The text-only link shows up fine in both the visual view and a page preview. When l click on the link it opens in a separate tab. * An image-only link shows up in the visual view as a small box with some type of icon in it. In the preview view, it appears as the same type of small empty box. When l click on the link it opens in a separate tab. * An image and text link shows up in the visual view it shows up as an empty rectangle box. It does not show up in the preview. * I am pulling my hair out because all of the online posts and youtube videos make it seem so simple. I think I have read every forum trying to find an answer. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Famazon-assoicate-links%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/) * (@binarywc) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-assoicate-links/#post-14427456) * I think this might require using a child theme and doing some custom coding. I’d suggest contacting the theme support community for your theme here: [https://wordpress.org/support/theme/new-york-business/](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/new-york-business/) and asking them if they have a way of adding custom fields. Generally I would say to look into using ACF [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/) but I am not sure it will actually allow you to embed the links the way you want. * Also, if you are using Classic Editor you can add custom fields without a plugin using the custom fields meta box and then create a child theme to add the custom coding to force the fields to work correctly. Here is more info about child themes: [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/). * Hope something in what I’ve said helps you. I will try to help further once I see your reply. * [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/) * (@gappiah) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-assoicate-links/#post-14427494) * [@binarywc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/): I’m not sure if you mistakenly answered a different post here, as I don’t see what custom fields have to do with this. The Amazon affiliate link is a simple HTML anchor tag ( text link) or an img tag inside an anchor tag (hyperlinked image). **A custom HTML block** in Gutenberg should be able to display either of these: you certainly don’t need custom fields or a child theme. * [@pvancil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pvancil/): Are you using an adblocker or some other privacy tool? It seems something on your computer or network is blocking the image from displaying. * This was certainly the case for me: the Amazon subdomain that the image is served from (**m.media-amazon.com**) was blocked in my 3rd-party privacy DNS filter, so I got the same missing image icon you saw, as pictured below. But when I turned off my 3rd-party privacy DNS and used my local ISP’s DNS, the image loaded correctly, as shown below. * Image blocked with my NextDNS privacy filter DNS: * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.snipboard.io/EKBep8.jpg?ssl=1) * Image loaded with my local ISP’s DNS (no filtering): * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.snipboard.io/4MLkQG.jpg?ssl=1) * [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/) * (@binarywc) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-assoicate-links/#post-14427541) * Nope no mistake. I’ve seen what you are trying to do be done with Custom fields tied to custom coding in a child theme. The code [@pvancil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pvancil/) is trying to embed might not be working correctly because it needs to be done how I described… I am not sure though because I am not extremely familiar with the amazon affiliate html coding he is using because the two sites where I have helped implement this both use custom fields and a child theme to embed it in the post so that the code can not be accidentally deleted when editing the post in the wp-admin post edit screen. * Thread Starter [pvancil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pvancil/) * (@pvancil) * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-assoicate-links/#post-14428039) * [@gappiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/): You nailed it. A while back I installed the DuckDuckGo search engine to get a more secure search engine. I didn’t realize that they also installed something they referred to a Privacy Essentials. This extension to my browser was blocking the Amazon links from my browser. I turned it off and everything is working great. * Thanks much for the help. I am new at this and I was overthinking the issue. I was so focused on editors and themes that it never occurred to me it might be my browser. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Amazon Assoicate links’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [amazon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/amazon/) * [links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/links/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [pvancil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pvancil/) * Last activity: [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-assoicate-links/#post-14428039) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics