In building your Amazon store with WordPress you’ll run into situations where you might need to display a list of products from a certain manufacturer or merchant on Amazon.com. The only plugin I found that handles this problem is phpZon.
phpZon has powerful Amazon product listing features. It can retrieve a list of products from Amazon based on finely-tuned user-specified criteria.
Here’s how you would use phpZon to display a list of products from a certain manufacturer:
Say you wanna display SLR digital cameras from Nikon. So, you create a post on your blog titled Nikon SLR Digital Cameras.
Now, go to the WordPress post edit screen, click on phpZon drop down menu, and select Search Result Page.
We enter the basics: “digital slr” for Keyword(s), select Electronics for the Category and set the Minimum Price to “20000″, which is equal to $200.00. (Note: it’s always important to set the minimum price in lists like this to filter out accessories and such things).
Now when you click Submit, you get a shortcode like this:
[phpzon keywords="digital slr" num="10" country="US" searchindex="Electronics" trackingid="YOUR-TRACKING-ID-HERE-20" sort="pmrank" minprice="20000" templatename="columns" columns="2" paging="true"]
Simply add the the string manufacturer=”Nikon” to this shortcode to get
[phpzon keywords="digital slr" num="10" country="US" searchindex="Electronics" trackingid="YOUR-TRACKING-ID-HERE-20" sort="pmrank" minprice="20000" templatename="columns" columns="2" paging="true" manufacturer="Nikon"]
Now when you display your WordPress post, you’ll see a list of digital SLR cameras exclusively from Nikon.
Using this search functionality of phpZon, you can also specify a merchant, publisher (if you’re displaying books), or item condition (i.e. used, collectible, refurbished, or new). You can find more details in the phpZon user manual.
