=================================================================== WP-Amazon plugin for Wordpress 2.3+ Version 2.1 $Rev$ $Date$ Author: Rich Manalang Home: http://manalang.com/wp-amazon/ Support: http://groups.google.com/group/wp-amazon Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Rich Manalang This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA =================================================================== Version History --------------- 2.1 - Updated for Wordpress 2.3+ 2.0 Beta 1.1 - Fixed wp-amazon.php 2.0 Beta 1 - Complete rewrite. KNOWN ISSUES: 1. This release only works on Firefox 2, IE 6, and Opera 9. Safari will be supported... but in future releases. 2. Drag and drop of images/links only work on Firefox 2. To copy an image/link to the visual editor in other browsers, use the browser's copy/paste command. 3. Most of the emphasis with this release is to support the visual editor and so, the standard text based editor is not really working... when you copy an image into it, it just gives you the URL, not the tags. This will be supported in future releases, but not this one. 1.3.2 - Reverted to using a hyperlink below the post textarea to launch WP-Amazon... too many people complained about it not working when a WYSIWYG plugin was enabled. 1.3.1 - Amazon changed their XML format which prevented WP-Amazon from displaying images returned from results. Thanks go to Nick Walton (http://www.nickwalton.com/) for finding and reporting the problem. 1.3 - Added plugin options page so users can update the default country, associate ID, and subscription ID without modifying the plugin source. - Added a "check for update" feature that allows users to easily see if their plugin is up-to-date. - Dropped support for 1.2.x 1.2.8 - Changed the Amazon Link on the edit page to be a button in the Quicktags region. Allows for WP-Amazon to work with the Tiger Style Administration plugin. 1.2.7 - Added some inline CSS to hide the admin header 1.2.6 - Added Added Michiel Maandag's enhancements (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32412) 1.2.5 - Fixed code that checks if curl is installed. By default, curl is preferred, but if your host doesn't have it installed, it downgrades to using fopen. 1.2.4 - Added support for WordPress 1.5. Still supports 1.2.x. - Relocated wp-amazon.php to the plugins directory. 1.2.3 - Added support for Amazon ECS 4.0 France and Canada 1.2.2 - Added check to see if magic quotes is turned on or off. This was causing a JavaScript problem with servers that had magic quotes turned off. 1.2.1 - Replaced htmlentities to htmlspecialchars to support special characters in Japanese and German 1.2 - Upgraded to Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 - Removed dependency on NuSOAP and moved to using standard PHP XML support - Added ability to change the Amazon country site to search form 1.1 - Cleanup 1.0 - David Schlosnagle's blended search has been included (thanks David!) 0.92 - Removed target="_blank" and properly encodes entities to preserve XHTML compliance. 0.91 - Reworked search features. Removed search by and replaced with product line search field. All searches are now by product. - Added support for Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, and Amazon Japan. Needs to be thoroughly tested still. 0.9 - Initial release About ----- WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon.com to your WordPress post entries. Features -------- * Uses Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 * Supports the following countries: - United States - Great Britain - Germany - Japan - France - Canada * Support for Amazon Associates IDs. For more information about the Amazon Associates Program, visit this site: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-9918661-1983944?node=3435371. To change the default Amazon Associates ID, change the Associates ID option under Options > Amazon. * Results display a thumbnail image of the product and the product name. * Supports copying Amazon images and links to the WP visual editor * Supports search across all Amazon product search indices (aka, blended results) * Supports searching across multiple Amazon country sites Installation ------------ * Extract the wp-amazon2.0.zip file to your wp-content\plugins directory * Go to the WordPress plugins admin panel then activate the WP-Amazon plugin. * The post edit page should now have a button on the right hand side of the Write/Edit Post and Write/Edit Page pages Configuration ------------- There's really no configuration needed after installation. If you have an Amazon Associates Program account and would like to use it, go to Options > Amazon to add your Associate ID. Questions/Suggestions/Bugs -------------------------- Please go to http://groups.google.com/group/wp-amazon