icodes WP plugin

[JMOT]

Hey

Anyone using this? Is it worth the fee to make life simple?

Thanks, T

 

[tifosi]

I develop it... my plugin.

What do you want to know?

 

[JMOT]

Your plugin?

For £60 it should work out the box no problems

My devs spent the last 2 hours fixing file conflicts & bugs etc... although I've not spoken to him in depth about it. Could be something our end or your plugin I dunno.

Does look potentially pretty neat if we can get it working.

 

[tifosi]

Works fine for a default WP3.3+ install. Demo is icws2.co.uk/wp

Majority of code is encapsulated so shouldn't interfere with anything. It doesn't change any core WP behaviour. The import use core wp functions to import the data.

All functions have the ic_ prefix to avoid any conflicts. It's a pretty big plugin that uses a lot of the WP3.2+ functionality including the new widgets.

If your devs have any issues they can let me know, or post on the icodes forum. Only thing that needs any reasonable hacking is the post content section. As it needed to follow the original v1 plugin methodology the offer/code is hardcoded into the post content. The v1.4 later in the year will use the newer custom post types & taxonomy.

There's been the inevitable issues along the way. All have been quickly fixed. A couple were bugs, most were server or set up issues. WP is a messy bitch! Only thing that really needs careful handling is the rewrites. As it extensively uses the default WP functionality including, and especially, the default WP query and rewrite rules, the majority of set issues have been thematic.

The /merchant permalink uses the default posts query and filters via the postmeta data. Any theme that f&*cks with the default query & loop i.e. uses query_posts in the index page will stop it working. Not a bug, just bad theme design. There is a workaround for it on the forum. And any set up with a static homepage needs a 'posts' page set up that uses 'the loop' and that needs setting in the settings > reading section.

It's built to use WP's default behaviour and functionality as close as possible.

S

 

[pinman]

Hi JMOT,

I've used the plugin on a couple of my sites in the past and to be fair the only problems I've ever encountered were with a 'clash' with the theme I was using - which were from Studiopress (Genesis Framework).

 

[julian]

can this import AWIN code feeds etc..

I develop it... my plugin.

What do you want to know?

 

[tifosi]

can this import AWIN code feeds etc..

No, but the project I'm working on will. It's the new framework for 1.4 which uses the wp3.2 custom post types and taxonomy structures, as well as the admin backend I built for icodes for wordpress with the local images etc.

The current iCWS2 plugin interfaces directly with the icodes website xml feeds. The next plugin will be awin specific interfacing directly with the build a feed api. The one after that will be the daddy using this and as a replacement for the affilistore enhanced I worked on.

S

 

[tifosi]

It should work fine with the studiopress genesis framework. The clashes tended to be with the child themes that have a custom 'home' page. The need additional configuration to work with 'the loop' as I mentioned above.

 

[pinman]

can this import AWIN code feeds etc..

You might want to take a look at Datafeed Studio if you want to import feeds from AWIN, Tradedoubler, CJ, etc.

 

[pinman]

It should work fine with the studiopress genesis framework. The clashes tended to be with the child themes that have a custom 'home' page. The need additional configuration to work with 'the loop' as I mentioned above.

Thanks S - that's exactly what the problem was

I ended up using a different theme in the end though lol

 

[JMOT]

We got it working. Just tinkering now

 

[tifosi]

We got it working. Just tinkering now

If you had issues with the installation & set up let me know. If they're generic solutions that can be added to the plugin core then I'll look at putting them into the 1.3.x stream.

S