=== Amazing Affiliates - Toolkit for Amazon Associates with Amazon Product Blocks and Amazon PAAPI5 / Creators API integration ===
Contributors: pizza2mozzarella, freemius
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=55C8AXK4QPDNN
Tags: amazon affiliate plugin, amazon associate, amazon affiliate, monetize
Requires at least: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Stable tag: 1.0.15.11
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Monetize your Amazon Affiliate Income with Amazon API Integration & Amazon Product Blocks! 


== Description ==

**Amazing Affiliates** is the WordPress plugin that will help to monetize your Amazon Associates affiliated business. With this plugin you can finally monetize your website through the promotion of **Amazon products** (with Amazon Product Blocks)! Within seconds and without any coding skills!

Amazing Affiliates is designed to automate all the annoying time-consuming processes (*i.e. calls through PAAPI5 Amazon Product Advertising APIs*). With this plugin you will have **more energies and time left** to dedicate to the **quality content that really matters** to your website/blog success.

You just need to copy the link or the ASIN of the Amazon product that you want to display! The plugin will then **automatically recognize the product**, call the Amazon API for the latest data, create a product in your WordPress database and fill it with a title, image and description and affiliate product link. This **product data will remain up to date** and can be inserted wherever you want through the Amazon Product Blocks.

Thanks to the automation, you will have more time to dedicate to real content creation!
Simple, effective and absolutely... amazing, this **Amazon affiliate plugin will incredibly simplify your job as a marketer**. 

Made **from** Amazon affiliate marketers **for** Amazon affiliate marketers, this plugin is simply everything you’ve always searched to quickly scale and monetize your business.

And the best part has yet to come, since more exciting features are in development!

### How it Works: ###

This plugin allows you to populate your affiliate website with Amazon Product Data taken directly through the **Amazon Product Advertising API** (PAAPI5).

**Product Data in Amazon Cloud** => *PAAPI5* => **Product Data in your website database**

*(You need Amazon Associates PAAPI5 credentials to use the plugin correctly, you can find them in you Amazon Affiliates Dashboard)*

**Product Data in your website database => *Product Block* => Product Displayed in your website Post**

The information gathered through the APIs can be beautifully displayed through the **“Amazing Product Block”**. This particular block can be inserted in the website post content using the visual Gutenberg Editor of Wordpress.

The amazon product blocks are designed to work efficiently in both mobile and desktop layouts and are customizable with:

* Colorful **wrappers with editable wrapper titles**.
* Customizable product titles.
* Toggle buttons to show/hide the price and CTA fields.

Meanwhile, in the backend part of your website (i.e. your admin panel, in the plugin pages) you can also **see the product's stock availability, price, last update, etc...** so that you can easily notice product with issues and promptly substitute them with a valid alternative and not even lose a penny! 

While from the settings page you can activate an eye-catching animated banner in the **"Amazing Product"** Block that triggers whenever there is a certain % of discount set by you. Here you can also set a custom default sitewide text for the CTA button.

= In short, with this plugin you can: =
* *Monetize* your blog posts with customizable Amazon Product blocks. 
* Add as many Amazon Products to a Post as you like.
* Easily add the Amazon Product block on the Post with the Gutenberg Editor.
* Edit the product title and description directly in the post editor. 
* Edit the product title "sitewide" if you have the same product in more posts.
* Check out the product stock availability with a user friendly dashboard.
* Trigger an eye catching animated banner in the "Amazing Product" Block whenever a product price gets discounted.
* Customize the default text for the CTA button

= Amazing Affiliates Core Features: =
* Automatically Import Amazon Product Data (PA API 5.0) using product url or ASIN
* Beautifully designed Product Displays for Desktop and Mobile Devices
* “Amazing Product” Blocks can be customized directly in the Post with Gutenberg Editor
* Product Stock Availability Checker
* SEO Optimized (New Window, NoFollow, and Sponsored link attributes)
* Easy to use. No coding required.

#### — TECHNICAL INFO — ####

*Please note that to use this plugin automatized functions you need an **active Amazon Affiliates Program Account** with access to the PAAPI5 keys.* This plugin automatized functions heavily rely on the open source Amazon Affiliates Program PAAPI5 software.

Every automated product data request will be encoded with the Amazon proprietary software and sent to their 3rd party servers for the response.

Yes, it does the same things you can do manually when you collect the data from their website, but in an automated way.

*This plugin can not control the way Amazon uses your product request data through the API. (read their privacy policy or contact them for this)*

**If you want to know more about the Amazon PAAPI5 software you can look up for:**
[The Amazon API PAAPI5 full documentation](https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/)
[The Amazon API PAAPI5 software license](https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/read-la.html)
[Contact Amazon for more specific privacy policy issues](https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/contact-us.html)

*This plugin uses affiliate links, check with your hosting if you are allowed to use them on your website. e.g. website on altervista.org will not work correctly with this plugin because of their TOS*

### — A big thank you to my debugging volunteers — ###
@adrien88 [Amazonaffiliates veteran debugger]
@JSN
@pizzalicious

== Installation ==
To easily install Amazing Affiliates enter the WordPress dashboard and select **Plugins > Add New Plugin**. Search for "Amazing Affiliates" and install the first result you see there.
To install the zip file downloaded from this page:
1. Login to your WordPress dashboard
2. Visit the **Plugins > Add New Plugin**
3. Click the **Upload Plugin** button at the top
4. In the upload form that appears, click the **Choose file** button and select the **amazingaffiliates.zip** file you downloaded here
5. Click the **Install Now** button
6. Once the page reloads, click the blue **Activate** link
7. Purge your website cache.
8. Insert you Amazon APIs credentials in the Settings or Setup pages.
Please make sure the Date and Time are set correctly in WordPress.


== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= What is Amazing Affiliates? =
Amazing Affiliates is a free wordpress plugin that allows you to automatically create Amazon product displays on your Wordpress Posts. With this plugin you will be able to scale your niche site and increase your affiliate revenue faster. 
= Who should use Amazing Affiliates? =
This plugin has been specifically developed for Amazon affiliates who want to promote Amazon products on their website. The plugin will help you insert more products, saving you a lot of time and pain. Moreover, the Product Displays have been designed to get higher Click-Through Rate (CTR).
= Why should I download Amazing Affiliates? =
With Amazing Affiliates you can automatically create product displays to promote on your blog posts within minutes This way you can insert more products in less time without too much hussle and use the remaining time to create more useful content for your readers. More content, more clicks, more affiliate commissions! 
= Do I need tecnical knowledge to use Amazing Affiliates? =
No, you don't need any coding skills to use this plugin. It's really simple and user-friendly. 
= Do I need Amazon Associate ID to use this plug-in? =
Yes, you need your Amazon Associate ID to properly set the plugin and get your affiliation revenue. You can easily find all the required data on your Amazon Affiliates Dashboard.
= Do I need an account to use Amazing Affiliates? =
Theorically yes, you will be using a sort of "account" to use Amazing Affiliates from the version 1.0.9 since we have implemented the Freemius framework. It is a formality and it will be created when you first activate it. You can even opt-out from this, just by following the istructions.
Remember that this version of Amazing Affiliates is free and to enjoy it you simply download the plugin from the WordPress directory and start using it!


== Screenshots ==

1. Product block with custom wrapper
2. Frontend product block
3. Inserting a product
4. Inserting a product 2
5. Editing a product
6. Editing a product 2
7. Editor on post
8. Plugin integrated Handbook
9. Settings


== Changelog ==

= 1.0.15 (jan-apr 26) =
*** The plugin's now supports the new Amazon Creators API
*** The plugin's now supports the newest Oauth2 with v3 credentials
** Added a debug mode for experimental features
** Reworked the setup page, now persistent, with a new way to test the APIs functionalities
** Added a manual insert mode in the workshop, to be used when there is no access to the API or API are limited/throttled
** Unlocked many product fields in the products' pages that now can be manually edited
* Minor bug fixes on the warehouse page
* Minor tweaks to the auto update system

= 1.0.14 =
* Added a switch for the automatic product updates in the plugin's product settings
* Now product updates frequency is customizable in the plugin's product settings

= 1.0.13 =
* Updated Freemius framework
* Enabled customizable text in the automatic offer banner of the product blocks.
* Fixed minor UI issues.

= 1.0.12 =
* Fixed a bug that prevented the correct visualization of certain product thumbnails in the product block.

= 1.0.11 =
* Fixed an issue that conflicted with the guidelines

= 1.0.10 =
* Added the setup page and the setup wizard process. Now you will be prompted to enter the Amazon API credentials before using the plugin.
* Fixed a bug that prevented the correct loading of CSS in the product blocks
* Fixed a bug that prevented the insertion of Amazing Product Blocks in the editor
* Applied minor UI tweaks
* Other minor bugfixes

= 1.0.9 =
* Integrated the Freemius Framework in the plugin

= 1.0.8 =
* Added the options to change the labels of the prices in the product block
* Added the option to change the label of the buy button in the product block
* Code adjustements for the next upcoming version
* Other minor bugfixes

= 1.0.7 =
* Fixed a bug that prompted a red flag when installing the plugin.

= 1.0.6 =
* Fixed a bug that crashed the Workshop and Warehouse page after having inserted a new product without setting up the Amazon APIs
* Improved the ASIN purification input algorythm in the Workshop
* Updated the notice in the Dashboard
* Updated the settings page, now it show the important missing field to set up the Amazon APIs
* Minor bugfixes

= 1.0.5 =
* Added a notice in the Dashboard to set up the Amazon APIs before using the plugin
* Minor bugfixes

= 1.0.4 =
* Fixed product block bug
* improved faq section

= 1.0.3 =
* Fixed UI bugs

= 1.0.2 =
* Plugin uploaded to wordpress.org repository

= 1.0.1 =
* Improved security with nonces

= 1.0 =
* Plugin released to the public