WordPress Wednesday: AVH Amazon

Published on Jun 2, 2010   //  WordPress

Do you have an Amazon Wish List? Do you want to share this wish list with your blog readers, but you don’t want to send just a simple generic text link, nor do you want to use the heavier “carousel” widget on your site? As it turns out, there is a free WordPress plugin that approaches this exact need.

It’s called AVH Amazon and it is able to pull items from your Amazon Wish List at random and have them displayed on your WordPress blog. Say, for example, that you have a series of books that you’d like to buy and these are all added to your Wish List. Using this plugin, it’ll pull one at random — like Make Money Online by John Chow and Michael Kwan — and feature it in a widget on your site.

The plugin will work not only with the main Amazon.com (USA) site, but it will also localize to Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr. You can choose the thumbnail size, the links will include your Associate ID (so you can earn the referral commission), and you have the option to use unlimited widgets. Multiple items from the same list can be displayed in the widget too. If you want more control over the random selection, there are options for that too.

Go to the WordPress plugin directory to get more information about AVH Amazon. You can also find the free download link on that page.

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