*** Looks like this bug is fixed. You may undo the temp fix from us below. ***

There is a known bug in the zazzle product feed for binder pricing. It’s showing up as double the actual price.  With the holidays upon us, it’s not realistic to expect a fix for the next few weeks.

There is a simple temporary fix for this issue if you wish to add a bit of code to your plugin file.  It will be easy to remove later and make sure to follow us at http://www.twitter.com/wishads in order to get the head’s up on when it is resolved.

Wishads for Zazzle Stores

In your “wp-content\plugins\wishads_zazzlestore” directory, open up the “wishads_zazzlestore.php” file to edit. Of course, never hurts to save this file in a temporary directory as well for a backup.

Go to around line 301 and you’ll find something like this:

$prod_price = $parser->document->channel[0]->item[$i]->g_price[0]->tagData;

Right after that line and before the

// build the xml cache file with just the bare essentials

insert the following code

$prod_type_temp = $parser->document->channel[0]->item[$i]->g_product_type[0]->tagData;
// begin fix for binder pricing bug
if ($prod_type_temp == “binder”) {
$prod_price = $prod_price/2;
}
// end fix for binder pricing bug

Upload this file to your server.

On your server, go to your “cache” folder in this plugin directory and delete all of the files in it to remove old pricing.

Hey everyone. There’s a bit of sad news here. Due to some big sites linking to one of our scripts, the Carousel for Zazzle Store, our host has killed the script. It was killing their server.

So, what I’m trying to do is get in touch with those sites and work something out for them to host their own version of the script, then I’ll likely change these back to revshare so that I can have enough to move up to a dedicated server if this kind of thing becomes prominent. I am not a fan of having multiple scripts out there to update on different server flavors and versions, etc. so I’d rather have it all hosted here where I can make the fix on the environment I know.

So, if you’re using the wishads for zazzle store, check your site. You’re likely seeing our 404 page in your iframe.

Help us by doing the following:

• Remove that iframe.
• Follow our twitter page for updates so you know when we’re back up and when we have issues like this in the future. It’s been down for a couple of days now and not that many people have noticed it on their sites. With twitter, we get that message out fast.

Thanks for your patience, and our apologies for this.

Jim

Recently, something changed. And not for the better. Links have been disappearing!

The culprit has been tracked down and it is a simple fix for both of the zazzle plugins. While I’m working on going through the rezip process, etc. you can actually fix it yourself.

First, backup your “wishads_zazzle” or “wishads_zazzlestore” plugin directory. That means just right-click the directory name in your folders list and click “copy”, then go somewhere else, like your desktop and right-click and choose “paste”. Now in case you have a problem, you have a backup of the current non-working plugin. Makes sense right?!

Now, if you’re using the store plugin (directory is “wishads_zazzlestore”) then do the following:
1) Open the “wishads_zazzlestore.php” file in a text editor like notepad. Do a “find” for the text “guid”. There should only be one occurence, around line 296. It will look something like this:
item[$i]->guid[0]->tagData
2) Replace “guid” with the word “link”. The new line should look like this:
item[$i]->link[0]->tagData
3) Save that and upload it over your existing file on your server. This is usually found under “wp-content/plugins/wishads_zazzlestore/”
4) Go to the “wp-content/plugins/wishads_zazzlestore/cache” folder and delete all of the files in the cache. This will fix any current posts.

That should do it!

If you are using the “Zazzle Search” plugin “wp-content/plugins/wishads_zazzle/” do the following:
1) Open the “wishads_zazzle.php” file in a text editor like notepad. Do a “find” for the text “guid”. There should only be one occurence, around line 271. It will look something like this:
item[$i]->guid[0]->tagData
2) Replace “guid” with the word “link”. The new line should look like this:
item[$i]->link[0]->tagData
3) Save that and upload it over your existing file on your server. This is usually found under “wp-content/plugins/wishads_zazzle/”
4) Go to the “wp-content/plugins/wishads_zazzle/cache” folder and delete all of the files in the cache.

Done! Reload any pages that use the plugin and you should be good to go.

New plugin downloads coming soon!

Please keep in mind that donations are what keep people like me interested in providing ongoing support for scripts like this. Feel free to do so.

We are excited to announce that Carousel for Zazzle Search and Carousel for Zazzle Stores are now both free of any rev-share links!

What does that mean? Previously each thumbnail had a 20% chance of returning our affiliate/contributor link. Now, all earnings are yours! Why? Well simply put, we’ve had so many requests from people who would like to use it, but understandably don’t want to give away a percentage of their sales. They would rather pay a flat fee as a donation.

So we’re giving the people what they want! Now all of our Zazzle products are rev-share free.

But we need to share with you that future development of applications like this are certainly helped along by donations, as are any “free” scripts or plugins created by developers. You’ve heard the line right? “Don’t forget to tip your waitresses, bartenders and developers.” … or something like that.

What do you think?

We’re excited to announce our Wordpress plugin for CafePress shops!

Similar to our CafePress search plugin, this plugin lists products from a specific store section.

Features:

• Use a simple shortcode around a store section to pull in the section products
• Automatically breaks up store into categorized sections
• Fully customizeable with CSS
• CSS saved in database so future upgrades don’t overwrite your CSS
• Affiliate links created on the fly based on your settings - or just straight links to the product
• Thickbox zoom of product images

Our first official plugin released on WordPress reached 65 downloads today, one week after its release.

After a shaky start using the WordPress filing system and two mini-updates later, the Wishads for CafePress Search Plugin is at release 1.1.1 and looks pretty good if we say so ourselves.

This plugin allows you to easily include products from CafePress and sell them as an affiliate. If you are a shopkeeper and have a unique image tag on your designs, you can use this to promote your products.

If you’ve had a chance to download and use the plugin, we’d love to see it in action. Drop us an email with the location of your blog!

We’d also like to see some ratings of the plugin at WordPress if you’ve downloaded it. We can take it.

But most importantly, what do you want to see next? Send us an email or post in our support forum. We’ll also be dropping some hints and tips there for how to customize your plugin with CSS. If you’ve hit any bugs or error messages, let us know about them so we can tackle them head-on. There are many different combinations of hosting, php versions, wordpress versions and wordpress themes, and we want to make the plugin work for as many as possible.

screenshots after the break:

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We are very excited to announce a partnership with CSNStores, a great ShareASale affiliate merchant with more specialty shops than you can count! We are currently accessing eight of their stores across the spectrum from furniture to baby to pet products, and we’ll be adding more in the future!

We’ve been working with Brent and his team at CSNStores since Mid-November to bring you a very functional wishad option like no other. You can still narrow results by keywords, but instead of just having access to the CSNStores individually, you can display items from all of the featured CSNStores. Or, just select the one store you like and go from there. Another exciting option for the CSNStores wishad is the ability to select your price range. With all of the specialty stores CSNStores has to offer, you’ll find things from under ten dollars up to products like furniture that run in the thousands! With the price range feature, you can pull in results that are best suited to your site’s needs.

Go to the CSNStore page for more details, then hit the Wishad Builder to create and preview the ad possibilities.

We’ve released a slight update/upgrade to the Zazzle Store plugin. This release 1.1 fixes a “blank” cell bug and a “random” setting bug. We also threw in a little something we had planned to do in a future release - text height buffers. This also allows you to override the height settings of the results so that you can show the entire title and/or description instead of it being truncated. Your call.

You can get the new release on the Zazzle page

If you do not upload the entire plugin over the existing one, you may have caching issues for up to 24 hours. If you have access to your files, remove any files inside the “cache” subdirectory of the plugin to fix this issue.

If you are using Wishads on a hosted Zblog, you should not have to do anything. They have already done the update.

Zblogs is a wordpress multi-user site that allows users to create wordpress blogs to promote their zazzle products. We are glad to announce that both of our Zazzle plugins are available at Zblogs.

This is great news for anyone that doesn’t have their own hosting, as Wordpress.com does not allow commercial blogs or plugins. It is also a good option for those that would just like to have another web presence for their products or to be able to affiliate other’s products as a Zazzle Associate.

Zblogs has numerous themes and plugins already installed and just waiting for you to test-drive.

Zblogs will be keeping our plugins up-to-date as well as beta testing new plugins, so check them out!

Zblogs link

What’s the quickest way to get updates on what we’re doing? Add us to twitter. If you aren’t twitting, you’re.. well… no, it’s too easy.

All our friends are there, which may not bode well for our social status. But it’s an easy way for us throw open the window to say “got something you might want to see!” and ring the dinner bell.

So, just follow us at http://www.twitter.com/wishads and we’ll drop you a line now and then. We won’t be following you back, since we love you but don’t care to know every time you just got back from taking Fluffy for a walk. But you can always find us here if you need some TLC.