internal error using shortcode in widget

Hi,

WordPress has built in automatic updates now, might have triggered something to get updated without you knowing?

The only other thing that might have changed is what Amazon is returning from the AWS request, what ASIN are you using I’ll try and recreate the problem.

Paul

Hi,

Very odd, do you know what the actual error is?

You could do a simpler template e.g.:

%TITLE% - %ARTIST%
(No links or javascript)

If that doesn’t work use completely static data e.g:

[amazon asin=B00ETRARLC&title=title test&artist=artist test&template=simple]

For the template above (assuming it was called simple).

Try disabling some other aspects of the plugin if you have them enabled e.g:

Turn off localisation
Turn off the cache
Turn off User Affiliate IDs

Let me know if any of the above makes a difference.

The only thing I can think off is that your running out of memory, and for some reason using it in a widget takes more grunt.

Paul

Hi,

Thanks for chasing that down, ‘Not optimized correctly’ not sure what that means, but doesn’t sound good!

Don’t suppose you have a contact at Godaddy I could get in touch with to see how I go about sorting this problem?

I suspect the problem is when it tries to fetch the data from the Amazon Web Service.

I have an enhancement that I have been working on that might improve matters on that front, would be useful if you could try it out?

A couple of other things to try:

If you put the image url in manually into the shortcode e.g. add somehting like: thumb=http://path.to.amazon.image. Do you get the error?

Does the search utility work on the post/page edit screen as this also does the AWS lookup?

Cheers for your assistance,

Paul

Hi,

Let’s keep it simple so we know which bits of the plugin we are triggering:

Update the simple template to be:

%TITLE% : %ARTIST% <img src="%THUMB%">

Try the first shortcode as is to see if it fails then try, adding the ‘thumb’ part:

[amazon asin=B00ETRARLC&title=title test&artist=artist test&template=simple&thumb=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kzTb9pQ8L._SL160_.jpg]

See if either work.

By the way do you have the Amazon Link cache enabled?

Paul

Hmmm,

Something specific to do with the THUMB keyword, try changing the template to:

%TITLE% : %ARTIST% <img src="%TEXT1%">

And the shortcode to:

[amazon asin=B00ETRARLC&title=title test&artist=artist test&template=simple&text1=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kzTb9pQ8L._SL160_.jpg]

If this works then try some hacking:

In the plugin file wp-content/plugins/amazon-link/include/amazonSearch.php:

comment out or just delete the two lines starting at line 79:

i.e. Change to:

// add_filter('amazon_link_template_get_image', array($this, 'get_images_filter'), 12, 6);
// add_filter('amazon_link_template_get_thumb', array($this, 'get_images_filter'), 12, 6);

See if that makes a difference to your original problem.

Paul

Hi,

Just to confirm going back to the original template and shortcode (using the THUMB keyword) as detailed in post above . The Amazon Link still does not display, and there is an Internal Server Error, even with those lines commented out?

I’m not proposing we use the TEXT1 keyword for the final solution, just trying to diagnose which bits of the plugin are failing. So please don’t update any other shortcodes yet!

Is it possible for you to post a link to the problem page/post on your site?

Paul