=== Zamango Money Extractor === Contributors: Zamango free service Tags: partner, affiliate, Reflexive, GameCenterSolution, BigFishGames, GameBoss, Nevosoft, Alawar, Realore, IgroMoney, TurboGames, work at home, home job, money at home, games, content, RSS, posts, Zamango, storefront, aggregate, shop front, shopfront, gameshop Requires at least: 2.5 Tested up to: 3.2 Donate link: http://www.zamango.com Version: 1.6 Stable tag: 1.6 'Zamango Money Extractor' creates your own casual games storefront with content provided by top content publishers. == Description == Zamango is the free-of-charge content agregator, i.e. free public service which composes content (casual games in downloadable and web-based forms) released by different world-known publishers like BigFishGames or Reflexive. It gives an opportunity to build your own reach storefront in minutes using ready toolbox (WordPress + Zamango Money Extractor plugin) and start making money on their affiliate programs. Optionally you may change post layout using HTML tags, but standard one is pretty too. == Installation == To use Zamango Money Extractor, you will need: * an installed and configured copy of WordPress v.2.5+ * FTP or SFTP access to your web host or at least browser-based file manager * enabled outbound connections from your website = Installation instructions = 1. Download the zamango-money-extractor.zip archive and extract the files on your computer. 2. Copy 'zamango-money-extractor' folder from your PC to the 'wp-content/plugins' directory of your WordPress installation using an FTP or SFTP client. 3. Log in to the WordPress admin panel and activate the Zamango Money Extractor plugin. 5. Register at http://www.zamango.com/ (if you didn't yet) and create a channel. 4. Go to the *Zamango M.E.* page to set needed options and start publish games on your website. 6. Fill in your username and channel name (default is the 'my_channel') into Zamango plugin and press 'Syndicate Now' button. 7. That it is =) == Frequently Asked Questions == = What is Zamango service? = Zamango is a free service on aggregation of casual game content given by leading publishers like [BigFish, Reflexive, Alawar, Nevosoft and others](http://www.zamango.com/articles/affiliate-programs "Actual affiliate programs available at Zamango"). On the other hand, it is also a free plugin for WordPress. [Zamango Money Extractor](http://www.zamango.com/zamango-money-extractor-plugin-wp.html "Zamango M.E. - Earn money with our content") is made for easy embedding of this content on almost any website based on WordPress 2.5+ engine. = What should I do to have an on-line store for games selling? = Read [the short instruction for Zamango Money Extractor](http://www.zamango.com/zamango-money-extractor-plugin-wp.html "Zamango Money Extractor - Earn money with our content"). You won't have to pay for anything except hosting (server), but the majority of serious hosters give free 1-2 week test period, so it is possible not to pay at once. = Can I modify the post created by Zamango M.E. plugin by myself or by means of outside plugins (synonymizers, etc.)? = Yes, you can do it. The only thing necessary to remember is that if someone changes a post except Zamango M.E. plugin, for example, in case of mistakes correction in the description of a game, it will not be automatically corrected on your website. = Why is it impossible to take the same content directly from all listed publishers? Anyway we must be registered in all these programs. = Certainly, you can do it yourself, but when you use Zamango you get a number of advantages: * the most beneficial partner programme is selected for each game among the game sellers * all publishers give promotion products in their own format and their revaluation to the standard demands many efforts, which the service incurs, * the plugin to simple and popular WordPress engine helps to create properly looking on-line store with rich set of the goods (games) in some hours even if you don't have HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript knowledge - in WordPress everything is constructed from modules and adjusted by mouse, * soon we are going to share the additional promotion products, which the publishers don't have. = What will happen if there are no publisher selling any game, for example? = In this case after an automatic update (which occurs with an interval specified by you on Zamango M.E. plugin page in WordPress dashboard) the post with this game will be removed without your participation. In case if you've changed post contents, the post would not be deleted, but automatically would become invisible for visitors, and it can be found in WordPress dashboard with a label "Draft" (or "Draft copy"). = Why are pictures (screenshots, icons etc.) for games stored on your server? = The size of complete promo-graphics set now equals 500 Gb, an it will be increasing in future. A part of Zamang users has no server and rents a hosting, the storage of such big-sized data is not always practicable. Besides, the more disk space the data requires and the more data a site distributes the more expensive the service of a hoster is. On the other hand, if Zamango user has a possibility to distribute pictures from the server, we only will be glad about it. There are two alternatives: * to set up the plugin, which downloads pictures in process of their inquiry, to WordPress, for example, [Super Image Plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-image-plugin/ "How to download all images automatically"); * if you have experience in working with any programming language, you may not load all this work on WordPress and do it by outside script - all links to pictures are in XML feed of your channel. = Why only 20 games are imported from XML after I pressed the button? = Some web hosts limit time-to-execute for 20-30 seconds, so only 20-50 posts may be imported for this time. That is why we decided to import 20 post per first iteration. Number of games you selected is also affect script speed. After first iteration you may estimate performance and time-to-execute limits and change how many posts must be imported per one iteration. Just try few settings and you'll find the most suitable one. = Why do I need to register at so much websites? = We only aggregate the content released by different publishers who offer very nice affiliate programs. We don't represent all these publishers but only help people to compose content provided in different standards in one way. = Why are games downloaded from zamango.com instead of Reflexive or Alawar? = Actually all games are downloaded directly from a server of the publisher. The reason why links in your blog guide to zamango.com is simple - the same game can be issued by different publishers with an interval in some days and even weeks and months. And the sales profit from one sale may be different among all publishers. So as soon as more well-heeled publisher begins to sell a game, zamango.com starts to sell this game through his site without tasking yours. By the way, this is the reason why we ask you to register on all affiliates specified in your control panel. = I have changed the BigFish afcode (or another partner ID). Should I re-syndicate all Zamango posts by Zamango M.E. plugin? = No, it is not necessary, since your partner ID (afcode, pid, CID etc.) is substituted by the scripts on Zamango server. But you should remember that if buyer has already downloaded a game with old affiliate code and overpass by the purchase link from this game, the commission will go with that old code. = I have my own website where I want to create additional section with Zamango content. I have exposed a parental directory in plugin which all posts should get to, but they have filled the whole main page. = You may edit the theme's files or use one of the plugins, for example, [Simply Exclude](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simply-exclude/) or [Advanced Category Excluder](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/), to let posts from only one of the categories be published on the main page. With the help of these or other special plugins you may adjust RSS channels for yourself. Anyway, it will be very helpful to crawl the plugin sector of official WordPress website — there are much of useful plugins. == Screenshots == 1. Fill in your username and channel name 2. And press 'Syndicate Now' button 3. That it is :) == Changelog == = 1.6 = * New feature: Added check if the outgoing connections are available = 1.5 = * Bugfix: Fix realtime permalinks in excerpt (wp's balanceTags breaks ZMG markup) = 1.4 = * Bugfix: Fix long update delays * Bugfix: Fix duplicate entries in WP 3.1.3+ = 1.3 = * Bugfix: Fix missing permalinks in excerpt = 1.2 = * Bugfix: Fix typo = 1.1 = * Bugfix: fix wrong function pointer definition = 1.0 = * Changes: code rewritten from scratch and optimized, reduced CSS and JS files includes, activation and deactivation hooks are binded only to /wp-admin/plugins.php (increases WP performance), human readable plugin URL in admin page, new admin UI (suitable for WP themes). * Bugfix: all warnings resolved = 0.30 = * Bugfix: fix missing array initialization. = 0.29 = * Bugfix: fix missing HTML escape in form fields. * New feature: added buy link button (tags [zmg:buy_pc_link] and [zmg:buy_mac_link]). * New feature: added short description (tag [zmg:desc_80]). = 0.28 = * Bugfix: fix reset of comment_status on post update. * Bugfix: disabling post revisions didn't work. * Changes: use wp_cron for auto update. * Changes: enlarged socket timeout when retrieving RSS from remote server. * New feature: added tag [zmg:random_word] for use random words in post. * New feature: added post title template. = 0.27 = * Bugfix: fix error handling when WP uses fopen() for downloading RSS. * Changes: improved performance of single post deletion and bulk posts deletetion. * Changes: improved performance of related games processing on the front page. = 0.26 = * Added support for localized screenshots. = 0.25 = * Changes: now plugin requests RSS from server with the additional parameters 'offset' and 'limit' passed in query string. It reduces traffic amount from server and WordPress and fixes memory limitations on many hosting servers. * Bugfix: fix constant redefine. * Bugfix: fix missing message when RSS is empty. = 0.24 = * Bugfix: fix error handling when RSS channel doesn't exists. * Changes: now all paths (JS/img/css) doesn't depends on plugin folder name. * New feature: added russian translation (zmg_feed-ru_RU.mo). = 0.23 = * Bugfix: disable post revisions only on import/update/autoupdate. = 0.22 = * Bugfix: fix plugin paths. = 0.21 = * Changes: now using wp_remote_request() for XML retrieving instead of file_get_contents() as lot of hosters disable it. * Cosmetic changes in UI. = 0.20 = * Fixed minimal required wordpress version in readme. * Added three screenshots. = 0.19 = * New feature: ZMG tag "[zmg:post_permalink]" is added to templates. It returns URL of the post, so now it's possible to make link to full post from image, text of whole excerpt. * Tag "[zmg:post_permalink]" is renreder on the fly then visitor requests the URL. = 0.18 = * Posts hiding in the Post Edit menu is fixed: now all post of zamango content category are hidden. = 0.17 = * New feature: Option "Show posts on the admin page (Edit Posts)" is added to help those zamangers who don't want to change zamango content. = 0.16 = * New feature: Empty function 'zmg_insert_post_custom()' is added for advanced zamangers. It's called after all processings and before post publishing. = 0.15.1 = * Bug fixed: If 'zmg:sysreq' is empty, warning message is shown. * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.15 = * Bug fixed: Fixed links' appearance (some WP themes set large marging for images). * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.14.1 = * New feature: Possibility to change auto-update period and related games amount on the fly, i.e. without syndicating of whole Zamango XML. * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.14 = * New feature: Option to save zamanger's preferences (like username, channel name, autoupdate period, templates and so on) when deactivating and activating the plugin. * Bug fixed: Checked option "Show posts on the front page" causes duplication of non-zamango posts. * Bug fixed: Auto-update deletes all posts. = 0.13 = * New feature: Checkbox "Show posts on the front page" is added. * Cosmetic fixes. = 0.12 = * Now posts are imported in the forward direction instead of reversed one (earlier backward order was needed for proper related games setting). * New feature: Checkboxes for what to use as tags (available content types, categories and publishers) are added. * New feature: Checkbox "Create hierarchical category structure" is added. If unchecked, all zamango posts will be placed to one category named according to content type and inside the selected parent category. = 0.11 = * New feature: Option to select one of the predefined "download" buttons and make them of one of 256 colors. Also custom button and semi-transparent buttons are available. * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.10 = * Bug fixed: Cosmetic fixes in default templates. = 0.9 = * Script time-to-live is prolonged until 900 seconds. * New feature: Option to select parent category for whole Zamango category tree (content type > category > subcategory >...) * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.8 = * New feature: Now related games are set on the fly, so they are using permalinks. * New feature: Option "Max related games in post". If it's not enough to show all related games set for current, ZME plugin will show random selection. * New feature: Tag [zmg:guid] now may be used in the template. * Bug fixed: Bugs with related games after posts deletion. = 0.7 = * Now ZME plugin is guided by last-modified date instead of release date. * New feature: If the title is not on sale the post will be deleted automatically (but if zamanger has changed it then it'll become "draft"). * New feature: "Bulk delete" option will remove all zamango posts (also it's possible to leave posts which were modified by zamanger manually. * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.6 = * Excerpt cosmetic fixes. * New feature: Preview of posts and excerpts while changing templates. = 0.5.2 = * New feature: Post revisions are disabled for syndication, thus it became much faster. * Minor fixes in hints. * Bug fixed: 'Related games' title was shown even if the current game has no one related games. = 0.5.1 = * Fixes in related games processing. * Bug fixed: Absence of needed 'include' function. = 0.5 = * Bug fixed: Bugs in categories tree generated by ZME. = 0.4 = * Magpie RSS is not used ane more due to writing of own XML parser, so XML syndication became significantly faster. * Bug fixed: Minor bugs are fixed. = 0.3 = * Bug fixed: Related games contain wrong URL's. = 0.2 = * Templates for post and excerpt beacame easier. * Default download buttons are erased as they are terrible =) = 0.1 = * First working version.