CodeShop Amazon Affiliate

First you need to add your API credentials to work amazon advertising API basically which works when you will search amazon products and will add them with your posts. Go to menu CodeShop -> Settings page to set your API credentials.

Well, when you put your all credentials into CodeShop -> Settings page and hit the save button then you should see 'Test Settings' button, better click on that to be sure your API credentials working okay, If you see success message after a while when you click 'Test Settings' button then you ready to go set up your shop, if you see failed mesage then you need to double check your API credentials properly. REMEMBER if you are testing it on your localhost then make sure your internet connectivity is working okay else it will be failed to connect with Amazon advertising API servers.

CodeShop Amazon Affiliate Plugin website has detail documentation which will make easier to use the plugin.

You can ask on CodeShop Amazon Affiliate Plugin website forum to ask anything about plugin related issues. You can also ask on wordpress support forum.

Using menu CodeShop -> Add New products you can add products by searching by text / keywords or by entering ASINs ( Amazon Standard Identification Numbers ). When you have search results you can select all products or can select which ones you want to add, then click on 'Add Selected Products' to add your all selected products. You should see success message when products are added and then hit the publish button and visit the post page to see your added products. If you want to add products with your wordpress regular posts / pages then when you are in Posts -> Add New or Pages -> Add New area then you should see 'CodeShop' button appeared above text editor at the same line where you have your 'Add Media' button. Click on 'CodeShop' button and you should see modal window through where you can search by text / keywords, when you have search results then you can select products which ones you want to show with your posts and then click 'Add Shortcode' button, shortcode will be created automatically for you and will be added in your post editor, then just hit the publish button and visit the post page to see your added products. REMEMBER you can change all kind of front end products display as you want to show it by customizing templates.

Using menu 'CodeShop -> All Products' you see all added posts. Just click on edit post as like regular wordpress posts you do edit, then you will see all your added products with the post in your edit screen and then you can remove them by selecting checkbox or add more by searching as your requirements.

In menu Appearance -> Widgets you should see 'Amazon Shop categories' widget , just drag and drop to your sidebar area where you want to show all added product categories. REMEMBER if you added categories and don't have posts yet into those categories then those categories will not be shown. So add posts into your added categories to see them into your sidebar. So categories with no post will not be shown.

Well, still you didn't copy the whole folder 'amazonshop-templates' from plugin directory then just copy the folder into your active theme directory, for better understanding after copy the folder in your active theme the new 'amazonshop-templates' folder path should be as like wp-content/themes/{your-active-theme}/amazonshop-templates/, now you are safe to update or modify templates, where you should see all customizable templates. Suppose, If you want to update / modify two columns product view template then just open the template file 'product-two-columns.php' and update it as you want to make it work and corresponding stylesheet for this template file will be found at same folder as 'assets/css/product-two-columns.css' to add / update your stylesheet. Same way for other templates -

• template file 'product-one-column.php' will use the stylesheet 'assets/css/product-one-column.css'
• template file 'product-three-columns.php' will use the stylesheet 'assets/css/product-three-columns.css'
• template file 'product-four-columns.php' will use the stylesheet 'assets/css/product-four-columns.css'

Basically, you are not limited! Templates are added as standard so you can update them, suppose you want to show more than four columns product view by updating template file 'product-four-columns.php' then you can just update / modify contents to show as 5 columns or 6 columns or whatever you prefer you can do but just don't change the template file name 'product-four-columns.php' and its corresponding styesheet 'assets/css/product-four-columns.css'. So you can display products as you want just keeping the template file names unchanged.