I've heard that one can make a living off e-bay, but I always thought it's only a successful few and a lot of fuss over nothing. Now I'm not so sure - this is a great way to supplement what your blog is making. I have a diet blog and have been thinking about also selling diet pills etc. but never really got around to it. Now I just might !
GeekLad
· 7 months ago
That's the general idea behind the plugin. Providing some additional income to bloggers, without having to go out and spend $100 on something that may never work.
evan
· 7 months ago
the code for display is too long. how about just the keywords?
GeekLad
· 7 months ago
Unfortunately, some products do indeed have very long descriptions. I think just the keywords wouldn't be very helpful, since they would be the same for all of the products. I might place some kind of character limit and use ellipses(...) to indicate a long description.
Lisa
· 7 months ago
I'm having a problem with keywords - probably very simple to resolve and I've tried multiple ways, but how do I get more than one keyword or keyword phrase to show up? I've tried quotes, commas, pipeline... sigh
GeekLad
· 7 months ago
If you want to place multiple keywords at the same time, use the smart tags multiple times. For example, if you want to display XBox consoles and games at the same time, you can do something like this:
This would display 3 XBox consoles (1 row with 3 columns), and 6 xbox games (2 rows with 3 columns).
lyricalbiz
· 4 months ago
So I'm going to appear rather dumb here, but how would I put that into the code?
this is what I have right now based on the plugin: (with the keyword search changed for obvious reasons) [ebay campaignid="xxxxxxxxxxx" keywords="xbox console" rows="10" columns="NUMBER-OF-2" pagination="yes" vertical="yes"]
GeekLad
· 4 months ago
NUMBER-OF-2 needs to just be "2"
lyricalbiz
· 4 months ago
thanks for the reply, but it looks like I wasn't clear - I would like to be able to have a multiple search for ebay - ie in ebay you can do this (vintage,collectable) records which gives you a wider search parameter. Any idea how to achieve that with your plugin?
GeekLad
· 4 months ago
Ahh... You could try using an or within the keywords.
lyricalbiz
· 4 months ago
Nope, still doesn't work - just negates the search with no results. Thanks for your time.
Sushi
· 6 months ago
This is awesome! I could definitely use it. Normaly I had to manualy add and removie links to products currently in my ebay shop. Now I finaly won't have to waste time.
Keith
· 6 months ago
Can you make this work for eBay UK?
GeekLad
· 6 months ago
I'll look into it. I could probably add an additional parameter to select which eBay locale to use.
jodie
· 5 months ago
Will your plugins work with newer versions of wordpress? i'm just learning to build niche stores, and your plugins look like what i'm after. do you know of any/have you written any that do price comparisons like shopzilla?
thanks so much for sharing your work! jodie
GeekLad
· 5 months ago
My niche stores are definitely a good way to get started. I haven't written any comparison tools (yet).
cilene
· 3 months ago
Didnt work to me. I tried everything and didnt work.
GeekLad
· 3 months ago
It may be that your host does not allow loading remote content. Without this enabled, it won't work.
brucini
· 3 months ago
any chance you can make the plugin compatible up to and beyond wordpress 2.8.1? I'd defo be using it if you could it's just what i've been looking for
GeekLad
· 2 months ago
I'm using it on 2.8.1 right now, so it should work fine. I just need to update the readme to indicate it works on 2.8.1.
The idea is great but you need to have the ability to select the country Ebay items. By default it uses US for me and I need UK. You need to add a country variable to the code in each page to tell it to go the required country version of Ebay :-(
17s
· 1 month ago
Is there any way to make the listings display in £GBP? All of my websites are UK based. Thanks.
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
I still haven't added support for UK and other countries, but I will be soon.
jaybp
· 1 month ago
Nice work on the plugin. The only problem I see is that all the auctions displayed are quickly ending, most in a few seconds or minutes. Is there a way to display the newest auctions? Thanks.
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
If you set it up for pagination and page through them, you should see older auctions. I don't know that there's really any any other way around this at this time. I may have to add in a sort parameter to show the newest auctions.
Oto
· 1 month ago
didn't work for me in post, I think the reason for it is that the enclosing double quotes are being changed by wordpress from a straight quotes to curly ones, and therefore not being read as code correctly. I tried the code in widget and using third party ad software and worked fine, just not in post.
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
That's odd, I haven't seen WordPress change square brackets to curly braces. What version of WordPress are you using?
Oto
· 1 month ago
I'm using the latest WordPress 2.8.5.
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
When you save the article/page and re-open, the brackets are converted to braces? Are you using some kind of article editing plugin perhaps?
Oto
· 1 month ago
I don't have any article editing plugin. The brackets don't change, they just disappear, and the commas change from straight to curly commas. I assumed that it was something to do with the wordpress theme, so I tested a number of themes with same result. I've even had a friend test it on a different hosted domain with similar results:
The following is the output of the code on the post page unaltered. The results are the same regardless of what I do to the script, notice the brackets are gone, but the commas change:
It sounds like you're using the visual editor, so that may be the problem. Try clicking the HTML tab and then adding the code.
Oto
· 1 month ago
I was using the html editor when I got this error - and also using html editor on friends site with same results
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
That's bizarre. I'll have to try it out on another WordPress 2.8.5 blog I haven't yet installed it on and see if I get the same issue.
Oto
· 1 month ago
Just chatted with my friend, and his is working fine now. He had missed a bracket. My issue still persists, so I'm going to assume that it's my wordpress that's messed up.
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
Perhaps if you simplify the code, you can isolate the issue. How about if you just try [ebay campaignid="YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID" keywords="YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS"] and replace YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID and YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS appropriately. Does it still break?
Oto
· 1 month ago
same thing, it's not a big deal, it's working great with the smart ads plugin, so I'm cool with it. Thanks for all your help :-)
GeekLad
· 1 month ago
You bet. Glad that at least it works w/ smart ads.
Oto
· 1 month ago
That said, I've got it to work fine using the "Smart Ads" plugin
Oto
· 1 month ago
That small issue aside, your plugin works great and was just what I was looking for. Thanks :-)
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to bloggers, without having to go out and spend $100 on something that may
never work.
just the keywords wouldn't be very helpful, since they would be the same for
all of the products. I might place some kind of character limit and
use ellipses(...) to indicate a long description.
multiple times. For example, if you want to display XBox consoles and games
at the same time, you can do something like this:
[ebay keywords="xbox console" rows="1" columns="3"]
[ebay keywords="xbox games" rows="2" columns="3"]
This would display 3 XBox consoles (1 row with 3 columns), and 6 xbox games
(2 rows with 3 columns).
this is what I have right now based on the plugin: (with the keyword search changed for obvious reasons)
[ebay campaignid="xxxxxxxxxxx" keywords="xbox console" rows="10" columns="NUMBER-OF-2" pagination="yes" vertical="yes"]
which eBay locale to use.
thanks so much for sharing your work!
jodie
any comparison tools (yet).
this enabled, it won't work.
I'd defo be using it if you could
it's just what i've been looking for
update the readme to indicate it works on 2.8.1.
soon.
What version of WordPress are you using?
braces? Are you using some kind of article editing plugin perhaps?
The following is the output of the code on the post page unaltered. The results are the same regardless of what I do to the script, notice the brackets are gone, but the commas change:
ebay campaignid=”YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID” keywords=”YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS” rows=”NUMBER-OF-ROWS-YOU-WANT-TO-DISPLAY” columns=”NUMBER-OF-COLUMNS-YOU-WANT-TO-DISPLAY” pagination=”yes” vertical=”yes”
Try clicking the HTML tab and then adding the code.
you just try [ebay campaignid="YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID"
keywords="YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS"] and replace YOUR-CAMPAIGN-ID and
YOUR-STORE-KEYWORDS appropriately. Does it still break?