paulstuttard

Cool, glad you managed to migrate okay, makes my fingers itch doing global search and replace in mysql!

Paul

Thanks Jihad, Looks a lot more compact than Amazon’s offering, if I do migrate I’ll probably make use of this.

I note Amazon have pushed back the deadline for migration to January next year.

Trouble is I no longer maintain any websites, so I don’t actively use the plugin. Although I did not mind doing small tweeks for reported problems, a wholesale migration to another API is another matter altogether.

Paul

Hi,

The latest version of the plugin (3.2.10) does not specify a version for the AWS requests so it will use the default. The previous version (3.2.9) did specify the version, however it is in the form of a date “2011-08-01”.

The plugin works okay on my sites so compatibility is not an issue.

Cheers,

Paul

Template looks fine, works on my test site: (https://lazyfox.org.uk/wp/2019/08/02/31/)

If amazon is throttling your requests then the first div will be expanded as:
<div class="al_found0">...</div>

Which will cause the whole block to be hidden, removing this div will show that all the values are ‘null’ or defaults as Amazon has not returned any data.

This is a common problem (Amazon blocking requests) with a lot of associates at the moment, I think Amazon is trying to get rid of us low sales affiliates.

If the cache is enabled there is not a lot more you can do.

Paul

I have to admit I do not have any knowledge of how KeyCDN works, if you’re lucky it will cache a version of the site as if viewed from the CDN’s locale. But I doubt it.

I think the only solution would be based on javascript, i.e. the links are loaded/refreshed after the page has load.

I don’t know if there are any plugins that work in this way.

Paul

Hi,

Not a lot of work has gone into that part of the plugin, if you want to come up with a cool scheme let me know and I can add it to the plugin.

Your understanding of how the plugin works is pretty spot on, so:

1) This is correct
2) They should be sent to Germany, but as you probably guessed they get went to the US site.
3) Chile is not in the current mapping, so again they get sent to the US site.

There are 257 locales in the ip2nation database, so probably best to focus on the countries your site attracts and do specific mappings for them, and I can add them to the plugin.

The code that currently maps the countries uses the following map:

$country_map = array( 'uk' => 'uk', 'ie' => 'uk', 'im' => 'uk', 'gi' => 'uk', 'gl' => 'uk', 'nl' => 'uk',
                               'vg' => 'uk', 'cy' => 'uk', 'gb' => 'uk', 'dk' => 'uk', 'gb' => 'uk',
                               'fr' => 'fr', 'be' => 'fr', 'bj' => 'fr', 'bf' => 'fr', 'bi' => 'fr', 'cm' => 'fr',
                               'cf' => 'fr', 'td' => 'fr', 'km' => 'fr', 'cg' => 'fr', 'dj' => 'fr', 'ga' => 'fr',
                               'gp' => 'fr', 'gf' => 'fr', 'gr' => 'fr', 'pf' => 'fr', 'tf' => 'fr', 'ht' => 'fr',
                               'ci' => 'fr', 'lu' => 'fr', 'mg' => 'fr', 'ml' => 'fr', 'mq' => 'fr', 'yt' => 'fr',
                               'mc' => 'fr', 'nc' => 'fr', 'ne' => 'fr', 're' => 'fr', 'sn' => 'fr', 'sc' => 'fr',
                               'tg' => 'fr', 'vu' => 'fr', 'wf' => 'fr',
                               'de' => 'de', 'at' => 'de', 'ch' => 'de', 'no' => 'de', 'dn' => 'de', 'li' => 'de',
                               'sk' => 'de',
                               'es' => 'es',
                               'it' => 'it', 'va' => 'it',
                               'cn' => 'cn',
                               'ca' => 'ca', 'pm' => 'ca',
                               'jp' => 'jp',
                               'in' => 'in',
                               'br' => 'br',
                               'au' => 'au',
                               'mx' => 'mx');

If the visitor’s country code is not in the map then they get sent to the US site.
If you have not enabled the locale that they have been mapped to (e.g. ‘jp’ is not enabled), then they get sent to the default locale.

Easiest thing to do for me would be to add a two stage filter:

The existing mapping but with a bit more thought, e.g. add Portugal => Spain

Then if certain locales have been disabled by the admin, map them to ones that are enabled.

Ideas?

Paul

Has anyone tried the ‘Amazon Link Extra – Cache Manager’ plugin? This refreshes stale data using a different mechanism (cron) so should be kinder on the request rate.

It also provides a page to see which links have valid entries in the cache, so over time the number of valid entries _should_ grow.

Paul