Tracking pixel issue (templates)

  • Argumentum

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    10 years, 3 months ago

    There is a little issue with the Amazon tracking pixel in the current templates provided by the plugin.

    The default templates use this to load the tracking pixel:

    <img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.%TLD%/e/ir?t=%TAG%&l=as2&o=%MPLACE_ID%&a=%ASIN%" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

    Apparently, Amazon now uses by default %IMP%.amazon-adsystem.com instead of www.assoc-amazon.%TLD%.

    While www.assoc-amazon.%TLD% will still work for most locales, it apparently will not work for tracking pixels from the Japanese and Brazilian stores. The browser will display a missing/broken image icon.

    I’d suggest the next plugin update to include that change in the default templates. Meanwhile, users can do that themselves with the templates they use.

    In any case, it may be useful to add a display:none to the style of the tracking pixel to avoid the broken image icon in future changes from Amazon.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-link/

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