Comments on: The Linkshare Merchandiser Wordpress Plugin

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:09:25 +0000

Ayda :
I just downloaded this plugin and created a page on my blog here: http://valentinesdayideasite.com/valentines-gits-store-powered-by-amazon/more-great-gifts/
I installed it and put the query in [ls lsquery="valentine" lsmid=" 3346" lsno="40" lssort="asc" pnum="1"]. This is a personalization store that has valentines day gifts but the result says nothing found. What am I doing wrong?

I see it's working for you now Ayda :)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:01:21 +0000

Michael, you will have to create another couple of pages with the additional pnum (pagenumber) parameter like so, this pnum will respect your number of items, so, if you have lsno="30" then pnum="2" will begin at item number 31 [ls lsquery="Indianapolis" lsmid="35907" lsno="100" pnum="2" ] [ls lsquery="Indianapolis" lsmid="35907" lsno="100" pnum="3" ] You will have to create the links between the pages yourself. Tony

By: Michael Schurmann

Michael Schurmann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:45:45 +0000

Hi,
I have feed with about 300 items,
what do I do to make it multipage.
Now I Have
[ls lsquery="Indianapolis" lsmid="35907" lsno="100"]
on
http://superbowlpartytheme.com/indianapolis-colts-party-theme.html
Thank you

By: admin

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:36:51 +0000

Hi Ayda, the only thing I can see that is wrong is the space in the merchant ID parameter ( lsmid=” 3346″ )

Remove the space and try again.

Tony

By: Ayda

Ayda — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:48:31 +0000

I just downloaded this plugin and created a page on my blog here: http://valentinesdayideasite.com/valentines-gits-store-powered-by-amazon/more-great-gifts/
I installed it and put the query in [ls lsquery="valentine" lsmid=" 3346" lsno="40" lssort="asc" pnum="1"]. This is a personalization store that has valentines day gifts but the result says nothing found. What am I doing wrong?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:40:38 +0000

Michael, I have noticed the merchandiser system to be a little shaky for the past few days, perhaps this is the issue? As it’s not a problem with the plugin.

By: Michael Schurmann

Michael Schurmann — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:16:02 +0000

Thanks for the help.
I set the cache timeout to 1 and emptied the cache completely. Next I went and updated each post, still. no display, and it was so beautiful.
Michael

By: admin

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:19:25 +0000

You will have to either set the cache timeout to 1 in the admin panel, or, delete the files with thise keywords in from the plugins cache folder Michael, in order to regenerate them. It looks like there was a glitch at the linkshare end while they were being generated.

By: Michael Schurmann

Michael Schurmann — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:08:29 +0000

these three shops worked perfectly and now they are gone. any idea?
http://superbowlpartytheme.com/nfl-bandanas-for-pets.html
[ls lsquery="NFL dog collar bandana" lsmid="13565" lsno="40"]

http://superbowlpartytheme.com/nfl-jersey-for-pets.html
[ls lsquery="NFL Pet Jersey" lsmid="13565" lsno="40"]

http://superbowlpartytheme.com/nfl-t-shirt-for-pets.html
[ls lsquery="NFL Pet T Shirt" lsmid="13565" lsno="40"]

By: admin

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:39:05 +0000

Michael, I’m not sure why it doesn’t work using 2 or more blocks per page for you.

I’ve just created this page as a test:

http://www.panfashion.co.uk/01/multi-test-for-michael/

With two blocks of code, and it’s rendering fine for me.

[ls lsquery="shoes" lsno="20" ]

Page Two begins here
[ls lsquery="shoes" lsno="20" pnum="2"]

And, to make sure it works with multiple merchant IDs this page does the same:

http://www.panfashion.co.uk/01/shoes-from-two-merchants-test/

[ls lsmid="24448" lsquery="shoes" lsno="5" ]
Page Two begins here
[ls lsmid="35118" lsquery="shoes" lsno="5" ]

Tony

By: Michael Schurmann

Michael Schurmann — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:29:54 +0000

Greetings, once more into the breach.
Is there a way to place more than one vendor on a single page or in a single post.
I tried to write the code twice and place a in between, I also tried to place multiple vendor ID’s into the code, comma separated to no avail.
if I have one vendor it renders perfect, anything else the display is scrambled.
Why do I need this?
Because like on Valentines day I have a page for flowers and I have more than one flower dealer, the same holds true for chocalates and fine lingerie.
I guess I might just make everything to difficult?
Michael

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:58:17 +0000

Hi Michael, you can change the sort order if you are happy to delve into the plugin code:

you will need to add this code block:

$ls_sort= $attr['sf'];

if ($ls_sort==”) {
$ls_sort = ‘retailprice’;
}

Just after this:

$ls_sort_option= $attr['lssort'];

if ($ls_sort_option==”) {
$ls_sort_option = ‘asc’;
}

Then change the request line to read as follows:

$request = “http://feed.linksynergy.com/productsearch?token=”.$merchandisertoken.”&keyword=”.urlencode($lsquery).”&max=”.$lsno.”&pagenumber=”.$ls_pagenumber.”&sort=”.$ls_sort.”&sorttype=”.$ls_sort_option.$lsmerchant;

Then change the next line after the request to this:

$cache_filename = $ls_pagenumber.’-’.$ls_sort_option.’-’.$ls_sort.’-’.str_replace(‘&mid=’,”,$lsmerchant).’-’.$lsquery.’linkshare.xml’;

You will then have a new parameter to use in your shortcode called sf the valid values are retailprice, productname, categoryname and mid (merchant ID), which, when used in conjunction with the lssort option will give you up and down sorting. (asc and dsc).

I’ve just amended my code and produced this page using [ls lsquery="Bandana" lsno="40" lssort="asc" pnum="1" sf="productname"]

Bandanas

Tony

By: Michael Schurmann

Michael Schurmann — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:37:05 +0000

I did find the problem. It is in the way the file is downloaded in seperate pieces. Anyway that is fixed and it works, thank you.
However one suggestion or help maybe.
is there any way that one can sort the page by item or description alphabetically.
if you were to look at http://superbowlpartytheme.com/nfl-bandanas-for-pets.html you would see the value this would have when all prices are the same.
thank you for a great plugin.
Michael

By: Michael Schurmann

Michael Schurmann — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:29:20 +0000

Help. This is the line I placed into my post: [ls lsquery="Dog Collar Bandana" lsmid="13565" lsno="40" lssort="asc" pnum="1"] And all that happens is that this line shows on my blog. I am using WP2.9 I also tried and placed your line [ ls lsquery="maternity jeans" lsmid="35208" lsno="40" lssort="asc" pnum="1"] and still no results. What am I doing wrong? Michael

By: admin

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:00:13 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, my host are currently doing something stupid with their firewall, so, I guess I’ll wait for them to take their fingers out of their arses