This plugin displays offers for a single product using the Shopzilla API. It also features a template tag to show product offers inside your blog post and caching of product offers to speed load times.
The Shopzilla Publisher Program is a pay per click kind, so each time your visitor clicks on these links to check the product you as a publisher earn a small commission form Shopzilla.
Before you will be able to use the plugin on your Wordpress blog, you will need to apply for a publisher account with Shopzilla. When you are approved you will get assigned a publisher ID and API access key which you need to enter at the Shopzilla plugin configuration screen.
To install the Shopzilla plugin:
1. Upload the "shopzilla" directory to the plugins folder (wp-contents/plugins).
2. Activate the Shopzilla plugin in the Plugin Management screen.
3. Go to Settings >> Shopzilla
- Fill up the publisher ID and API key provided by Shopzilla.com
- Enter the maximum number of product offers you want to display
- Enter the default placement id to use with your product offers (this option can be overriten each time you display offers)
- Set the maximum cache time. This represents the number of hours between which the plugin checks for new data from Shopzilla.com
5. Use the template tag anywhere within your blog post or page
Usage of the Shopzilla plugin:
To Display multiple offers for a specific product in a post or page, make sure you have filled in the Shopzilla API key and publisher ID areas in the setup
In your post html, use this tag:
AN EXAMPLE OF THIS:
The Product ID can be found by searching the product at Shopzilla.com and pulling out Product ID from the resulting URL. For example a search for "ipod nano" will return multiple products. Click on one of them and analyze the URL. It should look like this below:
http://www.shopzilla.com/12--Apple_iPod_Nano_8_GB_Black_-_cat_id--499__keyword--ipod%20nano__prod_id--633034954
The number at the end (633034954) is the product ID for "Black Apple iPod Nano 8GB"
Placement ID is optional and can be omitted. In this case the ID from plugin options will be used.
DEMO OF THE SHOPZILLA PLUGIN IN ACTION
4 comments:
I like this plugin. Will start adding it to my blogs. What is placement ID though? I looked in the readme file and it didn't clearly state it.
@Jay It is like a camp ID. You will see when you get into the publisher program.
Soggy. Thank you for being a pioneer in development of new revenue sources for BANS owners. I have used Popshops plugin per your suggestion and started to see some sales. I owe it all to you. I will now try this Shopzilla plugin as well.
Rex
Thanks for your post about the Shopzilla Publisher Program, and Yan's very useful Wordpress plugin.
Please let us know if you have any questions about the program.
Chris Calvi
Shopzilla
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