I use Amazon’s web services on many of my Wordpress websites. Originally I was using MrRat’s excellent Amazon Product Feed (APF), a Perl/CGI script, and hand-coding the templates to match the Wordpress theme for each website.

I needed a neater and more time-effective solution, so after having a look at the various available scripts I decided that a hacked up version of freekrai’s ASM2 would better suit my needs, especially as it is written in php.

The modified script isn’t a true plugin, it simply pulls in the active Wordpress theme. This can lead to occasional problems if the theme hasn’t been coded correctly.

Installing the script is simple. Upload the files to your server and set a couple of values in the config file and that’s it!

Some small bug fixes to the original freekrai script have also been implemented.

Wordpress sites running the Amazon plugin include:

Astral Health, (view store)

BlogMeDo, a Beatles fansite

Soul Trekker, a Star Trek fansite (view store)

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