Amazon Product Import

A WordPress Plugin to import products from the Amazon Product SDK into The Events Calendar Plugin.

Requirements

This plugin requires The Events Calendar plugin (see https://theeventscalendar.com/products/wordpress-events-calendar/) to be installed in your WordPress application / site.

Developer Setup

To get setup for development if you want to modify this plugin:

• Clone the repo
• Make sure you have docker installed (development requirement only)
• Start the docker container
  • cd docker
  • docker-compose up
• Wordpress should now be running on localhost with a test admin account (see docker/docker-compose.yml for details)
• If you would like to include The Events calendar, just copy the plugin into the src/plugins directory (it will be automatically ignored by GIT).
• Start Coding!

Installation / Usage of the Plugin

To install the plugin:

• Copy the src/plugins/amazon-product-import folder from the repo and put it in your Wordpress plugins directory.
• Add a .env file into src/plugins/amazon-product-import with AWS API credential values from the Amazon Product SDK:
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
  • AWS_TRACKING_ID
• Activate the plugin in the WordPress Admin

To use the plugin:

• Create an Events Calender Event (aka tribe_events post type)
• Set the Amazon Product Identifier on the right hand side of a product you wish to import
• Set a release date thats in the future (this will be automatically updated to the correct date after the first import)
• Press the "Import Products" button in the "Amazon Product Import" menu.
• Profit!

Fields currently imported include:

• Product Title
• Product Release Date
• Product Image URL (medium size)
• Product Author

For more information, read the README at src/plugins/amazon-product-import/README.txt.

Featured Images (Optional)

Optionally, you can use the provided featured-image.php to also use product images from Amazon as the featured image for The Events Calendar Events posts (tribe_events). To do this:

• Copy featured-image.php
• Place it within your activated WordPress theme at [your-theme]/tribe/events/v2/list/event/featured-image.php
• Note: make sure to add the intermediate folders named as above so that WordPress template heirarchy correctly locates the template.
• e.g. To use this file with the twentytwenty default WordPress theme, place feature-image.php at wordpress-install-directory/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/tribe/events/v2/list/event/featured-image.php

Happy coding!