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General Public Announcement: WP-Amazon goes to version 1.2!

This release is packed with all sorts of good sh*t. About a month ago, maybe more, Amazon released a new version of their web service — it’s now called Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0. Although, they still only support four countries (US, UK, DE, and JP), they’ve added lots of good stuff including the ability to perform a blended search across all of their product search indices. This makes it much easier to search for products since you no longer need to know which area of Amazon to search.

In my opinion, the most interesting feature Amazon added to their service is the ability to search for restaurants (US only). Amazon is now indexing restaurant menus and tracking customer reviews and other great information (address, phone numbers, price range, map, etc.) I’ve added this feature in WP-Amazon so that you can now include a link and image of a restaurant menu to your blog entries. Here’s how that looks in WP-Amazon:

After a restaurant has been selected, you can select how you want link to the restaurant information:

I’ve also added the ability to search across different Amazon country sites (currently, the Amazon API only supports the US, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan). Also, I refactored the code so that it no longer relies on NuSOAP. Instead, it now uses REST and PHP’s native support for XML.

Kick the tires, then let me know if it works.

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