The public release is now available for download.
Here are some quick highlights for this version...
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You can now download Associate-O-Matic in either the usual ZIP file or the new self-extracting EXE format. The self-extracting EXE lets you use a familiar Windows interface to decompress files without the need of a separate unzip utility such as WinZip.
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| New Features |
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New Categories (UK): Automotive, Office Products |
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New Categories (CA): Kitchen |
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New Categories (DE): Automotive, Jewelry, MP3 Downloads, Office Products |
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New Categories (FR): Baby, Beauty, Health, Jewelry, MP3 Downloads, Office Products, Shoes |
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New Setting: Buy Button Type - When using the Lite version or when using the Full version with the built-in Shopping Cart turned off, this controls whether buy buttons go to the Amazon product page or Amazon shopping cart. (t=3775, |
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New Setting: Buy Button Quantity Range - Specify the min and max quantity to display the quantity box (if enabled) |
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New Setting: Display Quantity In Stock - Shows the quantity next to the "In Stock" message (if known) |
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New Setting: Image Zoom - Specify the type of window to use when someone views an enlarged product photo (Includes 5 new Lightbox styles) |
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New Setting: URL Placeholder - Because the SEO URLs are position based, when a value cannot be determined say for a Node, this placeholder is used (default is 'none'). |
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New Setting: Display Condition Note - Select the page types on which to display item Condition notes |
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New Setting: Home ASINs Per Page - Set the number of ASINs to display per page from 10 down to 2. Note: Amazon returns up to maximum of 10 items at a time. |
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New Feature: Order Status Page - Customers can now lookup their basic Amazon order/shipment details from your site. |
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New Setting: Display Order Status Link - Whether to display the link to the Order Status page described above |
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New Setting: RSS Footer - Display custom HTML underneath your RSS feed items (linkback etc) |
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New Feature: Unique Tab Colors - Tabs are now given a CSS class that corresponds to their category ID (e.g. .aom_tab_[CATEGORYID]). This gives you the ability to add styles, such as custom colors, to the /aom/cfg.css.php file to customize tabs and the associated search bar underneath. |
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New Feature: AJAX (jQuery) - Now supported - Used in new Lightbox feature - Other features coming |
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New Feature: A browse icon is now next to each category inside the Admin (when shop.php is the name used) - let's quickly jump to categories while testing, etc. |
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New Feature: You can now use negative keywords (e.g. -gremlins) inside custom categories and they won't display in breadcrumbs and page titles etc. |
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Sales Rank numbers are now formatted with commas (e.g. 17,434) |
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Clean external seller links from their condition notes (t=3454) |
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Consolidated and cleaned up Javscript throughout shop.php. Now centrally located in the /aom/js/shop.js file. |
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Updated to latest Amazon API version: 2009-10-01 |
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Various other enhancements |
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| Bugs Squashed (t = related forum thread ID) |
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Fixed Cart Checkout Code so it actually fires before checkout as it was supposed to. Can be used with Google analytics etc. (t=2814, 3483) |
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Fixed RSS feed bug where images were sometimes coming through with a zero heigt or width |
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Fixed Home ASIN bug where count was sometimes off |
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Fixed bug under Mod Rewrite where a Brand inside Narrow By Price links contained a space |
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Fixed bug where certain special characters in the /aom/cfg.admin.php file (where Labels for Custom Boxes are stored) would cause XML to bomb |
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Fixed bug where certain thumbnail images were not being displayed (t=3358) |
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Fixed recent bug where "quoted phrases" in searches would display improperly |
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Fixed bug where {SUBCATEGORIES} where not showing up in certain Meta Keyword settings |
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Fixed marketplace label bug that appeared in certain instances (t=2852) |
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Fixed bug where in rare cases an Item became ineligible for the cart (for whatever reason). This would cause the cart to bomb. We now recover gracefully from this error and simply display the error while the cart contents remain intact. |
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Fixed bug where Subcategory (ASINs) would not display properly when under a parent Category of ASINs |
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Several other small fixes |
Jun 11, 2010 - Associate-O-Matic 