I wanted to show my Amazon wishlist on my blog, actually I have a custom ‘wishlist’ on Amazon, listing what I’m currently playing – it was that I really wanted to show.
So I thought Amazon will provide that as an RSS feed and I’ll embed it in, no problems. No. They don’t, no idea why this obvious and useful feature is not provided! Grrrrr
To cut a long story short I found nothing out there that would do this (and worked for the Amazon UK site) so I knocked up a quick WordPress plugin to do it. You can see it in use on my site.
Features:
- Show small/medium/large images for the items in your wishlist
- Links through to Amazon
- Include your Affiliate ID (If you have one)#
- Supports all Amazon locales (US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Japan)
Usage:
- Install as you would any other standard WordPress Plugin
- Go to: Design -> Widgets and add the widget to your sidebar
- Set the options as required, note the List ID is a required field
How to Find your Amazon wishlist ID:
- Logon to Amazon and click the “Gifts & Wishlists” link near the top
- Click Wishlist
- In the “Your Wishlists” section on the right click the relevant wishlist
- The ID will be in the URL of the page, e.g. /gp/registry/wishlist/2GMNFC0FKPU37/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go
Download – WordPress Amazon Wishlist Plugin v1.0
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /wp-content/plugins/amazon-wishlist.php on line 65
Does it require PHP5? I’m stuck with PHP4.
I got the same error as well when I attempted to activate the plugin. I’m using the WordPress 2.6, PHP Version: 4.4.8, MySQL Version: 5.0.51a-community
Works nicely for me – thanks. Better behaved than Amazon’s own code!
Exactly what i was looking for but not able to find on WordPress.org. Downloaded and installed the widget without any problems and it´s working fine.
Though i don´t know why it didn´t pick up the things from my default wishlist. However, when i created a 2nd wishlist containing the same items it worked rightaway, so thanks for this great widget
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Hi – I’m getting that same error on line 65… any tips?
Thanks for the (what looks to be) great widget!!!
Thanks so much for the free script! This thing works like a charm. One thing I’m curious about is how can I display a direct link to a wishlist with an affiliate link? I want to be able to send someone to my complete wishlist while still adding the affiliate link.
sorry to notify I had to clear this widget from my page, too many problems with IE 6 and 7 ( did’nt test IE8 )
Posts always appears downside, under the sidebar.
Must be a solvable problem , but I’m lost in php language.
I notice you’re not answering comments for this plugin. Are you no longer supporting it?
If you are, in fact, still still supporting Wishlist, I wonder if you could get in touch? I’m running WP 2.9. on a local host (I like to try plugins out locally before installing them on the live site), and getting this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\wishlist\models\wishlist_model.php on line 161
Can you help?
thanksss admın
Thanks! You’d think Amazon would make it obvious… You saved the day!