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Ah yes ad-blocker, I once spent over an hour trying to figure out why my ad code wasn’t working once!!!!

Thanks for the thorough reply as always, your method might work! I wil test it later, however, It looks like there is no way to shove in a rel=nofollow attribute into a banner is there? Damn iFrames!

Brilliant! 🙂

Here’s another idea I ran into – Have you ever looked at adding links to images? Not amazon images, but uploaded media images and have them clickable to an Amazon ASIN with localisation?

Fantastic, I will test that version soon.

Another small side note that I forgot to ask you too, is I contacted Amazon and they say that if you show live prices through the API and they are more than 1 hour old, then you have to put a time stamp saying when the price is from. How old/often does your plugin retrieve the prices?

Thanks Paul

That is exactly what i’m trying to accomplish!

Is it not feasible to simply do a simple if? If = 10 digits, then do amazon code, if not then echo the code literally for that localization?

Have you got any timescales for this update?

Incredible helpful response. Thanks again!

1- I thought so, my solution was to create a secondary template with only %price%, and using an if = ‘-‘ I made it show the price as a backup instead of ever showing the ‘-‘ in case no list price was set.

2- I managed to fix everything and you were right, i used an if strlen > 15 statement to distinguish between a single asin and multiple and then set the output correctly (with asin= or without for multiple). Tested it through a US proxy and my UK connection and they show the right ASIN.

🙂

3- link_start doesn’t work for me for some reason, but instead I did this – set up a template with http://www.amazon.%TLD%/dp/%asin%/?tag=%TAG% and simply echo’d that in the correct place.

My only concern with this is that it will literally say amazon.com/dp/ASIN/?tag=something. Is amazon okay with that or do they expect to the see all the “creative=”, etc tags in the url too?

4- I decided to just show the price as I might not always show the list price (if not set up), but I am sure that would work.

5- You’re absolutely right, I realised that the asin I was testing was from amazon.com and didn’t exist in amazon.co.uk. After adjusting the code to accept specific ASIN for cases like this, it is now fixed too.

I will rate the plugin 5 stars, especially for your helpful support here.

Thanks again.

Hey there Paul,

Thanks again, i’ve made progress with it but really stuck at the moment. Forgive me for troubling you please.

1- Some products for some reason do not have a list price and show up as “-“, is there a reason for this? For example this product: amazon.co.uk/Nosefrida-Nasal-Aspirator/dp/B00171WXII

if i put the template to display both list price of the US and UK amazon, the us shows fine but not the uk. Other products show both. Is there a way to fix this? As, i’m sure you’ll understand that no one ever wants to show a “-“!

2- This is the code I am using to get the asin from a custom field:

$asincf = isset($custom["amazoncf"][0]) ? $custom["amazoncf"][0] : '';

if (function_exists(amazon_shortcode))  {
   $list_price = amazon_shortcode('template=price&live=1&asin=' . $asincf);
}

and I insert the asin into the custom field called “amazoncf”. This works but if I try to put this into the custom field “asin[uk]=0340993782&asin[fr]=2020479893&asin[de]=3548602045” to override the specific location asin, it doesn’t work. Do you know why?

3- Silliest question of all… How do I just echo the url of the localised asin? I tried %LINK_START%Amazon Product%LINK_END% in a template and echoed it but it literally echos the code (no execution)

4- Is there a way to show text before a localized template? For example i want to write “RRP:” before the price if it the localisation is the UK. I want to write “List Price” if the user is from America, etc. Is that possible in the template?
Thanks ever so much. 🙂