103 Responses to “Amazon Showcase Wordpress Widget”

1. katie on December 5th, 2007 10:56 pm

   hi, thanks so much for this wonderful widget. finally something that is easier to figure out than the amazon media manager plug-in!

   i have installed this widget to my wordpress blog. it works fine but i have a couple of customization questions.

   - currently the icons are stacked on top of one another without any space in between to breathe. how can i add a bit of blank space in between?
   - also there is a border around the icons. how can i get rid of it?

   sorry, these might be really simple issues but i’m really unfamiliar with css so i apologize for asking them. please reply if you can…thanks!

   katie

2. Aaron on December 6th, 2007 9:39 am

   Katie,
   To accomplish what you mentioned, you will need to add some CSS rules to your stylesheet. I think this should do the trick:

   .amzshcs-item { margin-bottom: 5px; }
   .amzshcs-item a img { border: 0px; }

   (You may want to fiddle with the margin numbers a bit)

3. Andre Costa on December 14th, 2007 3:21 pm

   Dear Aaron.

   I also love your plugin. Thanks for putting the time and effort into developing it.

   Two things.

   I would like to display two images per line. Can you help me figure it out? I don’t know anything about CSS, so I need to ask!

   You should probably consider adding something to your plugin that will allow people to share their gains from Amazon with you. I am sure a lot of people would be willing to - especially if you have accounts with Amazon in other countries, then you could get the income from people who live in those countries.

   Thanks again.

4. Aaron on December 14th, 2007 3:40 pm

   Andre,
   You should be able to arrange the images side-by-side using this bit of CSS:

   .amzshcs-item { float: left; width: 100px; }

   You will need to tinker with the value of ‘width’ and also the width of your sidebar to get this to work, but other wise this should do the trick.

   Thanks!

5. Elizabeth on December 17th, 2007 8:04 pm

   Hi!
   This plug-in is great. I was wondering if there is a way to have it located on a wordpress page, not a sidebar. I would like to create sort of a “library” page/effect.
   Thanks!!

6. Brian on January 3rd, 2008 10:35 am

   Hello - First of, good job and thanks!

   Is there a way to show the Amazon title under the picture?

7. priscilla on January 3rd, 2008 5:59 pm

   Hi, I just installed this plugin today. Unfortunately, I am getting an intermittent error with it. Sometimes it loads and works fine, but sometimes it removes all of my other widgets and lists only an error message saying that it’s invalid.

   At the moment it’s working so I am leaving it intact, but I thought I should let you know about this.

   Thanks for sharing this, it’s very handy

8. Michael on January 3rd, 2008 8:49 pm

   Hi Aaron,

   Is there a way to add Amazon Showcase to the sidebar without using the widget?

   I have finally got all the sidebar CSS working & I don’t want to use the AS widget, as it removes all the existing sidebar content.

   I am guessing that I could use ‘php if(function exists’ as it is used for ‘get_flickrrss’ ?? but I cannot find a code example.

   What do you suggest?

   Thanks,

   Michael

9. priscilla on January 4th, 2008 3:48 pm

   The error kept recurring, so I had to uninstall it. It’s a good widget, though.

10. Jim on January 6th, 2008 9:21 pm

    Thank you!
    I’m running into a problem where the text of the box shows up but not the Amazon listing…any thoughts?

11. Aaron on January 7th, 2008 9:17 am

    Michael,
    As of right now there is not a way to use it outside of the widgets. However, you should be able to move all of your static content outside of the widget condition statement and have both show up. Contact me if you need some help doing this.

12. Aaron on January 7th, 2008 9:20 am

    Priscilla,
    I’m sorry you were unable to make the widget work. It sounds like it may have been a problem with the data being returned by Amazon. Was there a specific error message?

13. Aaron on January 7th, 2008 9:21 am

    Jim,
    What is the URL of the website where you have the widget installed? Is there a specific error message?

14. JIm on January 9th, 2008 5:40 pm

    No specific error. I just don’t see what I’ve posted.
    Thanks for your reply.

15. Aaron on January 10th, 2008 9:50 am

    Jim, send me a message using my contact form and I will work with you via email to get things working correctly.

16. John on January 12th, 2008 1:02 am

    Aaron,
    I’m having the same problem as Jim, the title shows up, but not the Amazon list. Also, I am having a problem with the config button. It will only pop up the book entry some of the time. It just does not respond. Any ideas? Thanks!

17. Aaron on January 14th, 2008 11:57 am

    John,
    Make sure there are no spaces in the ISBNs that you have inputted.

18. Phil on January 18th, 2008 2:49 pm

    Aaron,
    Very nice widget. Installed easily, configured easily, well written documentation. Very well done.

19. Aaron on January 18th, 2008 3:00 pm

    Phil,
    Thanks for the kind words. Glad you like it!

20. Craig Walters on January 18th, 2008 11:22 pm

    I have the Amazon Showcase widget installed and placed on the sidebar. I do not see any way to bring up the configuration page for it. It is not listed under the Options tab. Where do I find the configuration page?

    thanks
    Craig

21. Cat Martin on January 18th, 2008 11:37 pm

    Excellent widget!!

    Just a couple of customisation questions:

    Like the users above, I would like to try and have a gallery affect in my side bar, so I’ve made all the images the same size and done rules you have suggested above. The only thing is, now my other widgets keep over lapping into where I have the images!

    I know this is a css issue, but I’m a bit of a novice at this and was wondering how I could “prioritise” what order my widgets were seen in.

22. Aaron on January 23rd, 2008 2:41 pm

    Craig,
    You can configure this along with your other widgets under ‘Presentation > Widgets’

    Aaron

23. Aaron on January 23rd, 2008 2:42 pm

    Cat,
    Try adding this rule to your stylesheet:

    #amzshcs { clear: both; }

    This should prevent your other widgets from floating next to the Amazon Showcase widget.

24. hooman on January 25th, 2008 12:11 am

    Would be nice to have the widget show the name of the book next to it, similar to what amazon has(except theirs only shows 3 at a time)

25. Aaron on January 25th, 2008 9:08 am

    Hooman,
    I will be releasing a new version of the widget in the next week or two that will allow you to do this. Stay tuned!

26. chickenmoo on February 1st, 2008 6:51 pm

    I dont know if this is a feature but it would be good to allow maybe 50 items to be inserted into the db and then have them rotated with only one displayed at a time per page… so they do not stay the same as you read different pages.

27. kelly on February 7th, 2008 9:10 am

    I want to add more books than ten. How do I do this?

28. Aaron on February 7th, 2008 9:35 am

    Kelly,
    Right now the widget is limited to 10 books. This was a result of having to make 10 separate requests to the Amazon AWS api. Any more calls would make the page load much more slowly.

    I will try to think of some ways to allow more than 10 items.

29. neil on February 8th, 2008 5:30 am

    Is there a way to use it NOT as a widget and just paste the code into my sidebar???
    Thanks a lot.

30. Carl on February 11th, 2008 1:45 pm

    Some Widgets allow you to have multiple copies of the widget (such as Category Posts, RSS, Text, etc). It would be great if Amazon Showcase would also do this. Then we could have multiple lists, such as “Currently Reading”, “All Time Favorites”, “Recommended DVDs”, etc.

    Is there currently any way to have multiple instances of Amazon Showcase in the sidebar?

31. Aaron on February 12th, 2008 10:15 am

    Carl et al.,
    I’ve just released version 1.3 which adds the ability to create up to 10 instances of the Amazon Showcase widget.

    Enjoy!

32. kelly on February 12th, 2008 2:03 pm

    Have you been able to figure out if I would be able to add more than 10 books?

    kelly

33. Greg on February 17th, 2008 4:35 pm

    Hi Aaron. Thanks for you great contribution. I’m eager to integrate your great widget, but no configuration option appears under ‘Presentation/Widgets’. All I see on this admin page is the option to drop your widget into my sidebar, and then specify how many Amazon widgets I’d like to include. I’m using the Mimbo theme. Might that be causing an issue? Any thoughts on where I should start digging to solve this? Thanks so much.

34. bc on February 26th, 2008 12:24 am

    For you folks not finding the configuration button, I wasnt seeing it either, its not that intuitive. Its actually a wordpress thing, when you drag the widget to your sidebar you will see a little icon on it at the drag page. Most of your widgets will have it, just mouse over the right side of it after you drop it and youll realize what the deal is.

35. kr on February 29th, 2008 4:15 pm

    Hi! Thanks for the wonderful widget.
    I have some questions though -

    Is there any way I can customize the size of the images? The “small” is too small for me and the “large” is too big. I’d like something in between. Is there a code I can put in for that?

    Also, I’d like to center my title under each image. Is there a way for me to do that in my css.

    Thanks so much!

36. Jonathan Mead on March 4th, 2008 10:43 pm

    Thank you so much for this wonderful widget! It’s so much better and more customizable than the ones amazon provides you with. Thank you again!

37. melanie on March 9th, 2008 5:43 pm

    Thanks so much. This is a great widget, my favorite of all the Amazon related plugins/widgets I have tried; it is so easy to customize and integrate into my existing site.

    The only thing that would make it more ideal for my situation would be the option to limit how many of the items are shown at a time and the option to shuffle/randomize the order items are shown. For example, 10 items listed in the options, but only three items randomly displayed in sidebar, so each visit to the page shows a slightly different list/order. Any chance a feature like this might be implemented in the future?

38. Aaron on March 9th, 2008 6:37 pm

    Melanie… noted!

39. Alan on March 14th, 2008 11:05 pm

    Hey Aaron,

    thanks for the great widget. I was able to add one instance of some CD’s I’m listening to. However, when I went to add another instance, I changed the settings to show some books I’m reading. Programmed the isbn numbers for them and it just shows the same instance for the CD’s. Any idea what the issue is? Thanks

    Alan

40. Michael on March 18th, 2008 6:00 pm

    Has this been tested in Wordpress 2.5 yet?

41. Aaron on March 18th, 2008 7:05 pm

    Michael,
    No, not yet. Though you are welcome to test it and let me know the results!

    Thanks,
    Aaron

42. Angela Harms on March 21st, 2008 5:53 pm

    I’ve got this installed at cornucopiapress.com, and I’m getting this error:
    WARNING IsterXmlExpatNonValid->parse(): expat: Invalid document end [0/1/1]

    Any ideas? It’s a brand new site, and I’m running Drikatruu Jelly template. Any help you can offer would be most appreciated.

43. Angela Harms on March 22nd, 2008 2:39 am

    Interesting new info. It fixed itself automagically, for a minute. There were still formatting problems, but I definitely saw a book cover. Then, next time I checked, it was gone, and the error was back.

44. Angela Harms on March 24th, 2008 9:57 pm

    Ok, I don’t mean to be a pest… But this is a beautiful widget, so I’d really like to make it work. I just want to add that I switched to your theme, PressRow, and widgetized it, and it is giving the same error, intermittently.

45. Aaron on March 25th, 2008 7:41 am

    Angela,
    It sounds like it may either be a problem with your hosting provider (and its support for certain PHP features), or a problem with one of the products you are trying to display. What product numbers are you using (ASIN, ISBN, etc)?

46. Dan on March 26th, 2008 1:54 pm

    Aaron,

    Very cool widget - thx!

    I would like to see an option instead of listing them all vertically to rotate between the ones in the list - based on either page refresh or time limit.

47. Thom on March 27th, 2008 9:08 pm

    Hi AARON:

    Love the widget. But it looks like my associates ID is not transferring to the link. Normally it inserts my actual ID, and with the widget it has no ID bit a subscription number. Ideas?

48. Angela Harms on March 27th, 2008 9:40 pm

    Hi, Aaron. It doesn’t look to me like it would be the particular ASIN. What php features do you think could be causing the problem?

49. Dane on March 29th, 2008 1:56 pm

    I’ve got this installed on my wife’s blog and I intermittently get the following error:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/content/w/a/t/watson349/html/cookie/wp-content/plugins/AmazonShowcase.php on line 40

    I am on GoDaddy hosting, using WordPress 2.3.

    Could you please email me and let me know what you think is going on?

50. Dane on March 30th, 2008 12:09 pm

    Just further clarification - it is no particular ASIN, I’ve tried plenty and it seems to happen no matter what product I choose.

51. Wim on April 1st, 2008 3:33 pm

    Trying out the 1.3 version of the widget on wordpress 2.5. It’s hosted on awardspace (php 4.4.1 and mysql 4.0.24) thus meeting the requirements of wordpress but I’m not sure it’s meeting your requirements Aaron.
    I’m getting errors when activating it and then switching to the view panel. Only remedy is to deactivate it. Haven’t found any error log so far so can’t help you out there.
    I’d like to add that WP2.5 doesn’t seem to have a plugins/widgets/ folder, so I place your widget in plugins/
    Any further input on this would be welcomed. Will reply if I find anything interesting myself.

52. Wim on April 1st, 2008 4:15 pm

    Me again. When installing the 1.2 version I get the same kind of problems.

    As a sidenote: 1.2 gets listed as 1.3 in the plugins panel ..

53. Wim on April 2nd, 2008 3:03 am

    Next test: running WP2.3 on a local XAMPP (PHP5.2+mysql5.0.27).

    No more problems as with the previous setup (on awardspace). In the administration panels I can activate the plugin and set it up in the sidebar. I can also add multiple AS widgets if so desired.
    Thing I noticed though: I can’t launch the setup of the widget (where you add the ISBN numbers etc) when I’m in IE6. Switching to Firefox2 this problem disappears.

    Next in the testsuite: upgrading to WP2.5 on this xampp. If the widget still works then I’ll blame awardspace (or the php version they’re using ..)

    I hope this helps you a bit

54. Wim on April 2nd, 2008 3:17 am

    My mistake .. I was running 2.3 (dutch version) on awardspace too. So it’s already clear it has to do with the host. Will try 2.5 on both awardspace and local now ..

55. Wim on April 2nd, 2008 3:49 am

    WP2.5 running on xampp now. Everything seems to work fine. Only the IE6 browser keeps refusing to open the setup window for the widget.

    The problem persists on awardspace though. When I activate the plugin (no problem there) and then go to the widget panel, I end up at http://www.awardspace.com/some_random_advertising_page.htm

    So far so not so good :-/ Not a huge problem though. It’s only a free hosting package so I’ll start looking for a replacement. Would be welcomed if you had some feedback as to what the cause might be (php incompatible version or whatever).

56. Bradford Parks on April 2nd, 2008 2:17 pm

    Hi. You don’t need me to tell you this is a swell widget. But I do have one issue that perhaps some others are having as well. I host my blog through Dreamhost, and am using the new WordPress 2.5. When you go to the Design/Widgets sections to add the new version of Amazon Showcase, when I click on the “edit” button, it brings up the interface, but only the right hand side of the box, and you cannot scroll to the left. This probably has something to do with the colum on the Wordpress sheet for looking at your widgets. If I click on this box, it will open up to it’s fill size, but as soon as you try to write anything on it, it changes back to the smaller size. I would be happy to send you a screen print–I have tried this in both the IE6 and Maxthon web browsers. Thanks for all yoiur hard work, and if you have any tips, I woudl appreciate it, becase everyone loves this widget. BP

57. Jiimy on April 2nd, 2008 6:49 pm

    I’d REALLY love to use this widget, but i’m having some problems too. Sometimes the image is there and sometimes I get this error:

    WARNING isterxmlexpatnonvalid->parse(): expat: no element found [-1/0/1]

    i tried changing messing around a little with php settings (enabled cURL, etc) but nothing changed. It doesn’t seem to matter which products I install either. They always work at first…then the error inevitable comes. I need to this to be reliable, so hopefully there’s a fix. Thanks!

58. Aaron on April 2nd, 2008 6:55 pm

    Hey folks, it seems like a lot of people are having similar issues with the plugin with WP 2.5. I don’t have a lot of spare time this week to work on it, but I will try to have a look at it this weekend. Hang tight and I will get everything sorted out!

59. Bradford Parks on April 3rd, 2008 8:14 pm

    For the author and anyone else here who uses Dreamhost–instead of using the Wordpress 2.5 to update the widget, I manually FTP-ed it to my blog and now everything is hunky dory. Thanks for the awesoem widget.

60. Nuclear Boy on April 6th, 2008 9:25 am

    Hey man. Cool widget. I have it on my blog now.

61. Michael on April 8th, 2008 1:34 pm

    Well, I just ran the 2.5 upgrade. Appears to me that the Amazon widget works, but not on the index page. Bombs out there. But if I go to archives it works fine. Very strange, but unfortunate for me. I loved this plugin…

62. Aaron on April 8th, 2008 1:35 pm

    Michael,
    Do you receive any errors?

63. Michael on April 8th, 2008 1:36 pm

    Just saw your post on 08.04.02 about looking in to 2.5 issues. If you need a hand, feel free to email me, and I’ll spare you some time to help on the development if needed.

64. Michael on April 8th, 2008 1:36 pm

    Negative on errors. Page just loads everything up until that point, then stops.

65. Michael on April 8th, 2008 1:38 pm

    Wild, I just deactivated the plugin and reactivated it, and now it seems to be working. Might just be a little wonky ghost in the machine with 2.5.

66. Michael on April 8th, 2008 1:46 pm

    Looks spotty. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Had someone try it on their machine, didn’t come up. I tried it on another, worked in FF, didn’t in IE. Appears to be no pattern besides sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

67. Daryl Auclair on April 9th, 2008 6:19 am

    Great plugin! I had trouble at first since I entered the ISBN directly from the bar code on the book. I found out that this was an ISBN-13 number and the widget requires the ISBN-10 number. So, I navigated to my book on amazon and looked up the ISBN-10 there. Worked like a charm!

68. Kevin on April 10th, 2008 4:18 am

    FYI I had trouble finding the configuration too. After much gnashing of teeth and slappings of foreheads, I realized that the ‘edit’ link scrolled off the right because my font was too big (and the widget name is too long). I had to reduce my font size to find it.

    Thanks for the great widget!

69. Daisy on April 16th, 2008 4:00 am

    Hi!

    I really like this plugin!

    My blog has two sidebars. When I go to Design–>Widgets to add it, it will only show in Sidebar 1, and naturally, I need it to go in Sidebar 2. I’m not sure what code to change/add to accomplish this. I looked above, but I didn’t notice a solution. Is there a way I can do this?
    Thanks a bunch!

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71. Nicole Bandes on April 20th, 2008 11:45 pm

    I would like to have the text (title and author) left aligned along the picture. Any suggestions?

72. Kelson on May 2nd, 2008 8:34 pm

    I’ve been using this plugin off and on for several months. Most of the time it’s great. I’d like to make a request, though:

    It would be better to retrieve the data from Amazon only when settings are changed, and store the results locally.

    I noticed my blog was performing very slowly today (as in it would sometimes take 4-7 seconds just to generate the HTML), and thought at first that it was a side effect of upgrading to PHP 5.2.6. Once I installed XDebug and took a look at the profiling results, I found that Amazon Showcase was taking up at least half of the execution time, and most of that was in curl.

    Since disabling Amazon Showcase, page generation times have returned to the normal .5s to 1.5s range. I can only assume something is bogging down our route to Amazon at the moment.

    It seems wasteful to contact Amazon on every page load to retrieve data that only changes occasionally. And if the connection to Amazon is slow for any reason, that causes delays in the page even appearing — far worse than placeholder images taking a while to load.

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75. Lori on May 23rd, 2008 11:17 pm

    Hi Aaron… I love this widget. I can’t seem to get my other sidebar items to stop overlapping it. I tried using:

    #amzshcs { clear: both; }

    But, it doesn’t seem to work. Is there any other advice you have? It works fine when I have one book cover per line, the issue arises when I put two per line using:

    .amzshcs-item { float: left; width: 100px; }

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

76. Diana on May 28th, 2008 2:19 pm

    Great widget! But I just noticed today that FireFox 2 and Netscape 9 are not showing working links. Safari 3 on Windows and IE 7 *are* showing links. At first I thought it might be a FF plugin conflict, as I have a few, but I have no browser plugins in Netscape.

    Here’s a link from the source code on the generated page:

    Chester E. Finn Jr.

    The link is identical in IE and FF.

    The link works when I simply create it in a blank HTML page, so it must be a conflict within the blog itself. I have 15 WP plugins, but it’s not obvious to me why any of these would have an impact on the Amazon Showcase hyperlinks. All other page links work.

    Ideas?

77. Diana on May 28th, 2008 2:31 pm

    oh, never mind, it was an odd effect of my CSS. Some browsers interpreted the markup in an unexpected way; all resolved, thanks!

78. bile on May 31st, 2008 7:05 pm

    It’d be nice if there was a way to change the ASIN or ISBN-10 outside the widgets page. So that users with fewer privileges… editors in particular could change them.

79. Lynsey on June 2nd, 2008 11:44 am

    Aaron, after seemingly endless Amazon plugins it’s great to find one that actually works, has some flexibility in terms of layout, and a creator who responds. Thank you - very nice work.

    A suggestion for the next version - the Goldilocks option - i.e. the middle sized image. You know the story - three choices so we could find the one that was ‘just right’.

    Keep up the good work Aaron.

80. maui.jim on June 7th, 2008 12:52 am

    Thanks for the great plugin!

    Is there a way to center the pictures in the sidebar? I can’t seem to get them to move away from the left side of sidebar. It seems as if they should float: center float: right?

81. Roger on June 9th, 2008 8:34 pm

    Hi
    It started to work bit the hstop with the following error:

    %BEG_OF_TITLE%Currently Reading%END_OF_TITLE%
    WARNING IsterXmlExpatNonValid->parse(): expat: no element found [-1/0/1]

    Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in /home/rogertat/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/AmazonShowcase.php on line 40

82. cathryn on June 11th, 2008 7:44 am

    This is just the kind of thing I am looking for!

    Except . . .

    Is it possible to use it without using widgets?

83. Andrew Feldstein on June 12th, 2008 12:46 pm

    I see a few other comments here about a fatal error issue. The plugin worked fine for a while but I now get a fatal error as well. I am using Wordpress 2.5 and being hosted by godaddy.

    I have deactivated Amazon Showcase for now but I hope you come up with a fix because I really like the plugin.

    Thanks for your great work.
    Andrew

84. Justin C on June 14th, 2008 12:01 pm

    I’d really like to use this plugin, however it won’t work on my site.

    I’ve uploaded it and the AmazonShowcase_Assets folder to the plugins folder on the server, and I’ve activated the plugin. However, when I go to Manage -> Widgets the page is broken, the WP header loads, but no content. As soon as I deactivate the plugin all is well.

    I’m running WP 2.5.1, any ideas?

85. Justin C on June 14th, 2008 12:05 pm

    Following on from my last post, I’ve got an error:

    %BEG_OF_TITLE%%END_OF_TITLE%

    [begin]

    Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in /www/hosts/purestblue.com/www/wp-content/plugins/AmazonShowcase.php on line 36
    WARNING isterxmlexpatnonvalid->parse(): expat: no element found [-1/0/1]

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /www/hosts/purestblue.com/www/wp-content/plugins/AmazonShowcase.php on line 40

    [end]

    Does this lead to any clues?

86. maui.jim on June 14th, 2008 9:45 pm

    Great Plugin!

    It appears the default when clicking a link to Amazon, is to open Amazon in the current browser window. Is it possible to change the link to open Amazon in a new window or tab?

    Thanks,

87. Roger on June 15th, 2008 8:33 pm

    Got the same error but aaron may be on a holiday…

88. Justin C on June 15th, 2008 9:21 pm

    Maybe he is. I’ll stick a note in my diary to check back in a week!

89. adam on June 24th, 2008 5:46 am

    Does anyone have any idea how make the author/title info appear along side the image? I have been messing with the style sheet and the widget code for days now and am getting nowhere.

    I’m trying to get the author/title info to appear to the right of the image and wrap to the bottom of the image.

    Thanks

90. kamil on June 30th, 2008 4:30 pm

    Hi great plugin, works with my blog in WP2.5.1 . Just wondering how I can display a bit more about each book than just the thumbnail. Can you tell me the order of the code please, if I want to show title and author. I just don’t follow how to use the available tags correctly.

91. Goob on July 2nd, 2008 12:36 am

    Aaron, fantastic widget. Thank you so much for it!

    I wanted to also echo Melanie’s suggest from back in March about randomizing the items. In my book, that would make this widget by far the best one out there.

    Thanks again though, even without the randomizing, I love this widget.

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93. chris on July 15th, 2008 3:31 am

    So great. Thank you so much for making this widget available. So clean and manageable. I am not a code guy, and am always looking for the easy aesthetic app. You have done a great thing here. Thanks.
    st. xris

94. Crawford Harris on July 17th, 2008 2:59 pm

    With 2.6 I was able to get the widgets working in a theme with two sidebars.

    Now I need the same kind of help as adam posted above. I just want the title and author to display beside the image. I just don’t have the html or css skills to do it.

95. michael on July 21st, 2008 8:39 pm

    How do I access the setting form?

96. Philix on July 24th, 2008 10:03 am

    This is a great plug in

97. eldemac on July 28th, 2008 2:00 am

    Same issue. I just upgraded to 2.6 and now cannot find the control for using Amazon showcase. I had previously used it and it was there until the upgrade. Now nada.

98. eldemac on July 28th, 2008 2:07 am

    Duh, never mind. Found it under Widgets, sidebar 2. I’ll try to pay more attention next time.

99. Steve on July 30th, 2008 10:06 pm

    Good job. Worthy of a donation. Where is your PayPal donate button?

100. Bob Hays on August 2nd, 2008 3:56 pm

     I like this plugin also - have used it in my 2.5.1 blog for a while now.

     However, today I’m seeing occasional failures at line 46; it looks like sometimes Amazon isn’t responding fast enough, and in those cases its failing to get an object back but trying to reference the info as an object.

     Thought you’d want to know.

     Thanks and have fun! - Bob

101. Mary@WritetoDone.com on August 3rd, 2008 9:08 pm

     Has this plugin been upgraded to WP 2.6?
     It looks really good!
     cheer
     Mary

102. Walt_Felix on September 4th, 2008 1:19 pm

     Great plug-in but I had to disable it because it seriously dragged down my page load times. My main page which normally takes less than 10 seconds to load, took 30-40 seconds with this active. I suspect it’s not an issue with the actual plug-in itself but with very slow response times from Amazon like Bob Hays observed above. It’s too bad because I really liked this plug-in.

     Great plug-in but Amazon seems to be a problem.

103. ray holt on September 12th, 2008 5:44 pm

     hi, love your plugin. thought i would made a couple of suggestions for the next versions.

     1. all the amazon graphic to be left, centered, or right justified.

     2. allow for a selection of rotation of the ads.

     a. fixed order
     b. random rotation
     c. sequential rotation

     thanks again for doing a great job.

     Ray

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