Today the new version 1.5 of ASA 2 has been released. It comes with some new very helpful and cool features! Disclaimer texts Some of you have asked for it, now you have it: A new option for managed templates to show a disclaimer text for the affiliate links. The options There are two possible options. The first, Asterisk and text, …
How-to: Shorten product title and description
A frequently requested feature is to shorten an Amazon product’s title or description text because the original content is so long that it would destroy the page layout. This is possible with ASA 2’s powerful template syntax. You can use the template filters to customize placeholders in many different ways. To shorten a text, we can use the slice filter. …
Keeping your custom templates update safe
By default, ASA 1 looks for the HTML template files in its subdirectories /tpl/ and /tpl/built-in/. You should never change the file in built-in as those are the templates shipped with ASA. They will be overwritten with new updates. You should put your custom templates one level higher in the /tpl/ directory. On update, ASA 1 tries to copy all files in …
Prevent AdBlockers from blocking the ASA sidebar widget
If you are using AmazonSimpleAdmin’s sidebar widget you may have noticed that it gets blocked by AdBlockers like AdBlock Plus. Until now, ASA used a static CSS class for the outer div container of the widget called “AmazonSimpleAdmin_widget“. AdBlockers recognize that as an ad and block it. If you do not want your sidebar Amazon ads to get blocked, you …
Amazon announces the new Amazon Associates Education Center
Yesterday Amazon announced the launch of the Amazon Associates Education Center. It’s a new website section featuring in-depth Articles & Tutorials for Amazon Affiliates. You will find tips and practical guidelines based on real-world examples on many useful areas including: Content Marketing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Conversion Optimization For us WordPress users there is an interesting …
New update adds Amazon India and backend translation
Hello ASA friends, today I released the new version 0.9.13. It supports the Amazon Product Advertising API for India. If you’re an affiliate and want to make money with Amazon India it is possible now with AmazonSimpleAdmin. Additionally I added backend translation. This version includes the english default and a german translation. If you want to translate the AmazonSimpleAdmin backend to …
Announcing version 0.9.12
As promised some days ago, a new version of AmazonSimpleAdmin is now available. A new feature is an option in the cache setup panel “Do not use cache when logged in as admin“. If checked the plugin will not load the products on a page from cache when you are logged in as admin. Another cool feature is the possibility …
An update is on its way
Hi ASA users, I am preparing a little feature update for ASA these days. It will fix some issues and bring some new features. The two new features I like most are: [unordered_list style=”green-dot”] The possibility to place your template files in a subdirectory (“asa”) of your theme. This will keep them safe from getting deleted on update (what should …
Here we go again: Bugfix release 0.9.11.2 is out
Sorry for the daily updates recently, but the new Ajax mode had some teething problems (this is why I declared it beta ;-)). With this update the Ajax mode should finally work for not logged-in users too. Additionally I added two more placeholders: {$Prime} and {$PrimePic} If a product is a prime product, {$Prime} shows “AmazonPrime” and {$PrimePic} will show …
Bugfix release 0.9.11.1
There is a new version out: 0.9.11.1. It fixes a bug with the functions asa_item und asa_get_item. They resulted in an error when used with custom templates (file_get_contents warning). Additionally the placeholder {$PercentageSaved} now shows “0” if nothing is saved instead of it being blank. And I added a dynamical CSS class for the Ajax container (if Ajax mode is …