Overview¶
This is a premium plugin, it only becomes fully functional after you have purchased a license key.
When you first install the plugin it will only work in Administrator mode. The admin panel will be functional, but only while logged in as an administrator will you be able to view the output of the plugin on your site. If you are not logged in as an administrator you will see a blank spot where the output normally appears.
Activating The Plugin¶
This plugin has two required settings to allow it to be fully functional:
License Key¶
This is your license key that Cyber Sprocket has sent to you. You will need to purchase the plugin from our MoneyPress Amazon Edition page. Your license key will be sent to you via email within 10 minutes of purchasing the plugin.
Secret Access Key¶
This is a key that Amazon provides to you when you sign up for the Amazon Web Services. You must sign up for Amazon Web Services so that they will share product information with you via an external program such as MoneyPress : Amazon Edition. Signing up is free and only takes a few minutes.
1) Visit the Amazon Affiliate Program Web Service site to get started.
If you have not yet signed up for an Amazon Affiliate account you should do so now.
2) Select Product Advertising API on the left sidebar menu.
3) Click on the "sign up now" button on the overview page that comes up.
4) Fill out the necessary forms & submit your application.
5) Go to the manage your account section.
6) Click on click here under Access Identifiers.
7) Click on the secret access key link.
8) This is the secret key you will need to enable your site to "talk" to the Amazon servers and pull product information.
AWS Access Key Id¶
This is another key that Amazon provides to you when you sign up for the Amazon Web Services. This key is a public key that Amazon uses to know you are making a request. It is not private, but it is unique to your site. You should always use YOUR key when access Amazon Web Services. This information can be found on the same page as the Secret Key noted above.
Plugin Settings¶
Amazon Settings¶
Associate Tag¶
The associate tag is the 10-letter + 2-digit code that Amazon assigns to each web domain you register with the associates program. You should always enter your associate tag so you can earn credit for any sales that happen when people follow the Amazon links from your site and make a purchase at Amazon.
Amazon Site¶
Which Amazon site do you want to pull products from? This is separated by country. Each Amazon site has their own approval process for accessing the Amazon data. Please make sure your Secret Access Key matches the site you select here.
Default Search Index¶
Which Amazon catalog should your shortcodes use to lookup products on. The shortcodes can override this setting. If not specified in the shortcode, the category you select here will be the default setting.
Request Timeout¶
How long to wait for Amazon to respond with a list of products before timing out. Normally 30 seconds. Setting this too low will result in 'no products found' if Amazon servers are busy. Setting this too high will mean a lot of wait time before the page displays and gives your visitors a message about not products being found.
Display Settings¶
Locale¶
Which locale you want to use for formatting the data output. This determines things like time zone, who dates are displayed, and which character set to use. The list is provided from the available locales within Wordpress.
Money Format¶
How do you want monetary fields to be displayed on the product listing output?
Cache Settings¶
Enable Caching¶
If this checkbox is set, any product filters that match a prior lookup will check the local cache first. All data returned from Amazon related to products will be stored in a local cache, reducing the lookup time to the remote data services. Your data will not be real time but site performance will improve.
Retain Time¶
If caching is enabled, this setting determines how long previously fetched data will be considered "fresh". Once the data has "gone stale", any new requests for that data will be take from the main Amazon product feed and the cache timer will be reset.
Plugin Environment¶
Enable Debugging Output¶
This will dump additional data out on various pages that are using the plugin to help track down any problems the plugin may be having. This can be useful to find hidden error messages that come back from service providers. This should not be enabled unless instructed to do so by a Cyber Sprocket team member.
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