AmazonSimpleAdmin
AmazonSimpleAdmin is a wordpress plugin that lets you easily integrate Amazon products into your wordpress pages.
By using the template feature, you can present the products in different styles on different pages, all by typing simple BBCode tags.
See the official wordpress plugin homepage for this plugin for further details.
Examples
All examples use the German Amazon store. AmazonSimpleAdmin is compatible with Amazon CA, DE, FR, JP, UK and US.
[asa]B000B9TV9G[/asa] results in:
Price: —
5 used & new available from EUR 115,00
[asa demo1]B000B9TV9G[/asa] uses the demo1 template and looks like this:
[asa book]383330149X[/asa] uses the book template and looks like this:
Drachenläufer (Taschenbuch)
by Khaled Hosseini
ISBN: 383330149X
Price: EUR 10,50
157 used & new available from EUR 2,80
| 4.5 | 239
Features
- Ease of use with BBCode tags
- Lets you design your own product templates
- Supports all Amazon webservice country codes: CA, DE, FR, JP, UK, US
- Use your Amazon tracking ID for making money
- Features collections. You can define and manage sets of products as a collection and show them on a page with only one BBCode tag or just the latest added product in your sidebar
- Supports product preview layers (for US, UK and DE so far)
- New with version 0.9.5: Caching Speeds up your blog when adding many products to your posts!
- New with version 0.9.6: Parsing [asa] tags in user comments
- Since version 0.9.6 compatible with Amazons Product Advertising API changes by August 15, 2009 which require all requests to be authenticated using request signatures
Requirements
- PHP 5
- Wordpress > 2
Download
Get it from the official wordpress plugin homepage.
Installation
Just unpack the “amazonsimpleadmin” folder into your plugins directory and activate it on your wordpress plugins page. Then you will have the option “AmazonSimpleAdmin” on your wordpress options page.
Info
This is the first public version. I have used this plugin for several weeks now and it works fine so far. If you find any bugs please send me an e-mail (info@NOSPAM_ichdigital.de, remove the NOSPAM_) or use the comments. Please also contact me for feature requests and ideas how to improve this plugin. Any other reactions are welcome too of course.
Documentation
See the documentation page for detailed information about how to use this plugin.












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what is a problem – trying to add asin:2070369064 plugin complains saing it is wrong but in amazon this isbn exists?
Hi.
The correct syntax for adding your product would be:
[asa]2070369064[/asa]
If asa is installed correctly, this will work!
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Is it planned to select the Amazon Country code depending on the country the visitor comes from?
It may be too hard?
matt, the code seems to do that already. It’s just not enabled for our affiliate code. Make sure you give Timo a donation before you start changing the code.
Also the plugin needs work done to it to make it compatablite with the chnages in the amazon API coming this august. (link)
The plugin works flawlessly. Thanks Timo for the great effort. Donations should be coming your way soon. This is the implementation at my site: http://www.managears.com/34/ways-to-market-yourself
Hopefully the plugin will be ready for Amazon API changes on August
Hey guys,
Sorry, at the moment I am very busy. But I will take care of the AmazonSimpleAdmin plugin as soon as possible.
And thanks for the donations!
Hallo!
Danke für dieses tolle Plug-In, es ist echt genial. Habe von Amazon dieses E-Mail bekommen:
Sehr geehrter Product Advertising API Entwickler,
wir möchten Sie freundlich daran erinnern, dass ab dem 15. August 2009 alle Anfragen an die Product Advertising API (ehemals Associates Web Service) nach dem neuen Verfahren authentifiziert werden müssen. Wir haben festgestellt, dass Anfragen mit Ihrer AWS Access Key ID bisher noch nicht signiert werden….
Ich denke das hängt mit diesem Plug-In zusammen. Wie schaut das nach dem 15. August aus, geht das Plug-In dann überhaupt noch?
DANKE!
Hi Mecin,
Ja, ich werde das Plugin demnächst dahingehend updaten, dass es auch nach dem 15.8. weiterhin funktionieren wird. Evtl. sind dafür dann einige Einstellungen in den Optionen nötig, aber das sollte es auch sein.
Hallo Timo,
super – da freuen sich sicher viele.
Gruß
Hi guys,
I am working on the update right now. It’s already working fine with the secret API key. So the update will be available some days before 15th of August.
Hallo Timo,
schön zu hören dass das Update bald fertig sein wird. Wenn du möchtest, kann ich es zum Test bei mir installieren.
Eine andere Frage hab ich dann auch noch: Füge ich ein Produkt ein, so kann dieses nicht über die Suchfunktion gefunden werden, auch in der Meta-Beschreibung taucht nur die ASIN auf. Gibt’s da einen einfachen Weg das Problem zu lösen?
Gruß
Hi Mecin,
Danke nochmal fürs (erfolgreiche) Testen der neuen Version!
Die Integration der Amazon-Daten in die Wordpress-Suche werde ich als neuen Feature-Request aufnehmen. Kann ich momentan noch nichts zu sagen, hab mich mit der Wordpress-Suche noch nicht auseinander gesetzt.
Hello Timo,
After upgrading to the latest version, the plugin doesn’t work anymore. For your information I’m using WP 2.8.4 and AmazonSimpleAdmin 0.9.6. As you can see from the example above, it did not show anything wherelese previusly it works fine. I did not make any changes to the codes or the post. The format remains the same: [asa book]1580087833[/asa]. Tried to change to [asa]1580087833[/asa] with similar blank result. Please advice
Sorry, speaking too soon. I did not enter the Amazon Secret Access key correctly. Now everything works. Thanks Timo
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I noticed this library is using Zend_Crypt_RSA, which requires ext/openssl be installed. Unfortunately, my host doesn’t have it installed nor is it likely to any time soon. I’d get a new host if I could, but alas, I am not.
In light of this, maybe the ext/openssl dependency ought to be removed? Zend_Crypt_RSA could be replaced with phpseclib’s Crypt_RSA, for example:
http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/