That really shouldn’t have stopped the plugin working, I shall look into it…

In the mean time if you a re confident working around mysql, you need to find the item in the ‘_options’ table in your wordpress database that has the ‘option_name’ = ‘AmazonLinkOptions’.

If you have phpmyadmin install you could try editing the option, just change the “1″ after “localise” into a “0″. Or delete all the options with something like:

DELETE FROM `DB_options` WHERE `option_name` = 'AmazonLinkOptions'

You need to change the ‘DB_’ in ‘DB_options’ to suit the name of your wordpress installation.

EDIT:

I can’t recreate the problem with my version of the plugin, if I remove the ip2nation database it just defaults to the ‘US’ domain all the time. I have tightened up the error checking in the ip2nation part of the plugin to resolve this problem. Any more info you can give would be helpful, thanks!

Paul

I did install the ip2nation database earlier and it didn’t work. clearing the cache seems to have solved that though!

thank you very much for your help and this wonderful plugin.

The search box only works if you have entered valid Amazon AWS Keys in the settings page, you can get these from http://aws.amazon.com/.

Localisation only works if you have installed the ip2nation database, you should see a prompt at the bottom of the settings screen if this is not installed.

Cheers,

Paul

thanks for getting back to me so quickly!
Unfortunately, the search option isn’t there. Here is what I get below my post box:

Enter the following settings for a simple Amazon Link
ASIN

Link Text

Template

Channel

Enter the following settings for an Amazon Wishlist
Post Category

Number of Posts

Wishlist Type

Advanced settings
Use Defaults

I’ve been having some problems with the search results not coming back, so I’m currently bug fixing it. It should work for music & books though.

On the page or post edit pages in WordPress there should be a box called ‘Add Amazon Link’, in that box the second section is ‘Search Amazon for Products’. Fill in the author/artist/manufacturer/brand and/or title, select a Product Index, then hit the Search button (do not hit enter as this is taken as Publish Post by WordPress).

It should produce a page of 10 results, select + or – to navigate to the next or previous page of results.

Cheers,

Paul

thanks for building this plugin!
Maybe it’s just me but where do I find the search tool?

I can’t see a problem with the help page links, do you mean the ones pointing to: http://www.houseindorset.co.uk/plugins/amazon-link/other_notes (for the settings & shortcodes link)?

How are you generating your shortcodes? Using the ‘Add Amazon Link’ helper box, or manually?

The shortcode in your post should contain the item 'template=thumbnail' at least, for example: [amazon asin=1409308847&template=thumbnail&live=1]

Can you cut and paste the shortcode content you are using?

Paul