Title: [Plugin: WordPress-Amazon-Associate] Short codes not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress-Amazon-Associate] Short codes not working

 *  Resolved [rtomasso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtomasso/)
 * (@rtomasso)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/)
 * I’ve installed the plugin and validated my amazon credentials, but placing the
   shortcode on a page doesn’t make the carousel, etc appear, just the actual shortcode.
   Using visual mode, the amazon button is there but nothing happens when I click
   on it.

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 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Denton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdbitz/)
 * (@mdbitz)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921533)
 * Hi, you’ll have to provide additional information on how your website is setup,
   a link to the site itself would be helpful as well to determine the issue you
   are having with the plugin Short Codes.
 * > Matthew
 *  Thread Starter [rtomasso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtomasso/)
 * (@rtomasso)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921536)
 * I’m using the Contrast Theme. Sites on a staging server so you can’t get to it.
   Other plugin shortcodes work.
 * Making a new post this morning, I see that the Amazon Quick Links block is working,
   I can search and insert a link into the post. Though I don’t see my Amazon Associate
   code in the link.
 * [amazon-carousel] still isn’t working.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Denton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdbitz/)
 * (@mdbitz)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921546)
 * First your associate tag/code will not be in the Short Code it will get inserted
   when the link is rendered on viewing, are you saying when you view the post/page
   that the link isn’t using the associate tag you entered in the WP – Amazon > 
   Settings page of the admin?
 * Second please send me the exact amazon-carousel code you are using and I’ll run
   it locally in my environments to give it a test to see if there is something 
   wrong with the syntax. All ShortCode in the plugin is rendered through the same
   class in the backend so I find it strange that links would function but not the
   carousel widget.
 * > Matthew
 *  Thread Starter [rtomasso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtomasso/)
 * (@rtomasso)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921547)
 * The exact code I’m using is what I wrote before `[amazon-carousel]` copy&paste
   from the documentation.
 * I do see my Assoc ID in the tag= part of the link.
 * Poking at it some more, the Insert Image functionality isn’t working properly,
   all I get is the title of the book, no image or image code. Only works if I switch
   to HTML mode.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Denton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdbitz/)
 * (@mdbitz)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921575)
 * Hi, sorry I always seem to forget putting in the closing tag to the ShortCode
   in my examples. Please try [amazon_carousel /] and it should work for you without
   any issues.
 * Thanks for pointing out the Image Link is not functioning on the Visual Editor
   I will look into that and get a fix for it put into the next release.
 * ~ Matthew
 *  [naftalina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/naftalina/)
 * (@naftalina)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921580)
 * when you can use the plugin for the Italian??
 *  Thread Starter [rtomasso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtomasso/)
 * (@rtomasso)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921600)
 * One mistake was using `[amazon-carousel]` with a dash rather than an underscore,
   it’s both ways in your docs. Switching to correct tag brought up the amazon flash
   object, no need for the slash.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthew Denton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdbitz/)
 * (@mdbitz)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-amazon-associate-short-codes-not-working/#post-1921604)
 * Thanks for pointing that out I’ll make sure to update all my documentation.

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