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Hello there. I’m trying unsuccessfully to add an Amazon.uk Affiliate widget to my WordPress-powered site hosted through Bluehost. I’m using Weaver Xtreme theme and I love it. But even though I copy and paste the code from Amazon, it doesn’t show up in the widget area. The code begins with <script and then type=text/javascript so I assume it’s Java and not regular html. Why is is not showing up? Is there something I need to do in my theme in order to show Java?
Without knowing what you are pasting it is hard to know.
You can first try in in a test page based on the default template, paste the whole code as provided in the content editor while in TEXT mode, and make sure to check the options “Allow Raw HTML and script” in the page options.
If it is a script, it will be inside script tags like
<script type=text/javascript>The content of the script </script>
Which is the valid HTML syntax to insert a script
Thank you Scrambler. I tried that, and it worked…once. Now it’s not at all except the widget title. Here’s part of the code I’m trying to insert. I took out the part that I thought was sensitive information and I didn’t know how it will show in the post anyway.
<SCRIPT charset=”utf-8″ type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.co.uk Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT>Your syntax appears to be wrong, you have a closing link tag (</a>) without an open one.
Anyway, if it is not working, either the code syntax is wrong or the script is not working, and in both cases, you need to verify the code you are using with its provider
Well, as I said, that wasn’t the whole code, I took out some of the middle.
BUT, I can get it to work in a widget (for some reason it’s working now), however, that kills my https security on the site. I tried changing the Amazon links in <a href= to both read https instead of http, but it still doesn’t bump up my security. Any ideas?An easy and safe way to deal with http:// vs https:// is to simply use // only. E.g., href=”https://example.com” can be expressed as href=”//example.com”
Weaver, interesting. I think I might have to give that a try. I’d love to be able to include my Amazon affiliate codes. I’ve not made anything off of them as of yet but they’ve only been posted on my old Blogger, which I’m no longer using. But I certainly won’t make anything if I don’t post them!
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