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.

OK, it might not be all that exciting to you blogspot affetionados, but we like it.

Blogger Widgets allow you to place content in your blogger or blogspot blog. There is a blogger html widget where you can copy your wishad code into your blog content, but for some of us that’s just too much. Leave us alone.

So, we created a widget that lets you easily drop your wishad into your blogspot sidebar. Simply create your wishad with our wishad adbuilders, then just click the “add to blogger” button to ad that wishad to your sidebar. Pizza cake. Read the rest of this entry »

You may have noticed we’ve moved to a WordPress infrastructure. That’s not by accident.

We’ve had enough requests to work our wishads into WP plugins that we decided the best way to do it was to live it. We aren’t gonna lie, we have a little learning to do with WordPress, but what we’ve seen in our initial tests is promising. This WordPress thing… we think it’s going to catch on!

So stay tuned. We’ll be asking for some beta testers soon enough…

It’s as easy as creating your wishad with our adbuilder, then copy and paste! Here we’ve selected a Zazzle Wishad, horizontal, showing 2 images, returning 15 behind the scenes, with the pretty blue arrows. Of course, you can create whatever text you want in the post, then drop in the ad code.

Feel free to create a wishad with on of our adbuilders and try it out here!