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If you are an amazon affiliate you will probably be aware that the javascript code for amazon books can sometimes just disappear from a saved post or just won’t display unless it’s top of the post.

This amazon affiliate plugin for WordPress does help, but I don’t recommend it unless you are prepared to try a few different settings for it. It doesn’t seem to like all themes equally and I have especial problems when I set it to show the image at the top of the post. That said if you don’t mind a bit of too and fro-ing to get it set so it displays properly, this is a very helpful amazon affiliate plugin for displaying a product in a WordPress post.

Copy and paste the link text into notepad and look in the code for a 10 digit number prefixed by asin  for example – “&asins=0321395387″. The number only is what you need to input in the plugin to display the book. The plugin gives its options under the post editor or you can create drafts for several products at a time if you choose.

You can get the free plugin and full instructions at

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-product-in-a-post-plugin/

and see it working below where I have asked it to display a highly recommended book on learning about blogging for offline businesses.

The book description is from Amazon.

“Written from the business person/designer’s perspectives, this book shows how businesses can leverage current, real-world blogging techniques, tools, and platforms to promote and enhance their ventures. The key idea is that the conversation with your market is stronger and more meaningful with a blog.

Filled with practical information and a how-to approach, this book provides case studies of companies as large as Boeing or General Motors and as small as Clip-’n-seal. Readers will learn about the types of business blogs, how companies use blogs, how to sell blogs to management and IT, effective blog design, content, and conversation, pitfalls to avoid, how to develop Web presence, and more.”

If you enjoy recommended amazon books in posts by doing book reviews, this may help you to speed up the process a little.

See larger image Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business (Paperback) By (author) DL Byron, Steve Broback List Price: $26.99 USD New From: $8.79 In Stock Used from: $0.01 In Stock

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