I want to create a few pages in wordpress like a page for xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and Wii. The only thing I want to come up are ebay feeds. I have my ID and I know how to get the feed from ebsy, but how do I get the feeds to display? I have feedwordpress that is feeding news to the main page. Do I need a plugin for every page or something? An example is todaystopgamer.com He has a few pages on the left that run ebay affiliate feeds per page. I want to do that. Can anyone help?
Yeah, you need a RSS reader plugin. There are many but most people use PHPBay. There are different versions ranging from $129 to free.
The only thing you might have to install is a script enabler, get it from here for free - http://ottodestruct.com/ See this thread for the discussion and a link to download it - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=949085 You said you have your Ebay Partner ID. - https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com 1. Log into your partner account account 2. click on the campaign tab and, create a campaign ID 3. Click the tools tab 4. Click on widgets, 5. Click on editor kit Log into your ebay account, do a custom search for what you want and the next page will give you a display of the feed and the java script. At the bottom of the search page you have to enter your campaign number and a custom search ID - which is just under your campain number. Play around with the search page. Because you can really customize the output results. The width, display colors, and what the ad displays can all be modified from the search page. The more you use the search page, the more you will learn how it can change the end result. Then take the javascript from the preview page, copy it, and paste into the wordpress editor - but the editor has to be in HTML mode. The script enabler should allow the RSS feed to display properly. Here is an example of a working ebay RSS feed on my page - http://www.survivalboards.com/large-alice-packs/ And it did not cost a single penny. These options are built into wordpress and Ebay, you just have to know how to combine the two. But for some reason wordpress disables some scripts. So the script enabler fixes that problem.
There is a bit of confusion here... Maybe shkad14 means the editor kit, I don't know. todaystopgamer.com doesn't exist Anyway, I haven't used the editor kit but my understanding is that it's not RSS, just javascript like Adsense. That's a good summary of the editor kit, but I'm pretty sure the RSS feeds need a reader to convert them into HTML. The RSS feeds I've seen look different to that.
From my understanding of the Ebay feeds, they are RSS feeds being sent through a javascript. Some RSS to javascript converters strip your affiliate ID from the feed. This means you do not get credit for the sale. When grabbing an RSS feed, and using a generic rss to html convertor, be very careful. I guess the converters do not recognize the associate ID and change it up in a way that amazon does not see it. This is one reason I am moving away from Amazon. They have yet to offer a quality RSS feed through javascript. While Ebay is offering that exact service for their affiliates. Like shkad14, I want the latest or most popular items fed to certain pages of my site. After trying for a week to get the amazon feeds to work, I finally gave up and moved to Ebay. All I did was install the script enabler for wordpress, and use the editor tool kit in the Ebay Partner network.
Look for a script called "RSS to blog" or RSStoHTML, or find a Wordpress plugin like RSS-Import or WP-o-Matic. There are quite a few RSS to html plugins for Wordpress that will convert the feed into a post or sidebar display. Try here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ or here http://wp-plugins.net/beta/
I think this thread is becoming a debate about what is a feed The example Javascript code in the Editor Kit User Guide has parameters sent to eBayISAPI.dll. I don't know if they are still use that, but even if a RSS feed was returned I can't see where it is converted. That script plugin sure isn't doing it, or the example code. That DLL has to be sending back plain old HTML.