I'm pleased to announce

[scriptmonkey]

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The finalisation of the iCodes wordpress plugin, you can read the entire progress of this plugin here iCodes.co.uk • View topic - icodes webservice and wordpress

Essentially what it does is populate a wordpress installation with as many or as few offers & vouchers as you choose from the iCodes system, which is, in my opinion, the best voucher code and offers system going.

The plugin actually writes each offer into a post while categorising them according to standard iCodes categories. When an offer or voucher code expires, it states that it's expired in the body of the post.

The code and/or offer is clearly visible and there is no trickery involved in getting the site visitor to click the link, they either choose to or not, just like it should be.

But, thats not all, there are three sidebars to choose from,
Latest added codes
Codes about to expire
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There is a twitter function built in which will tweet your offers to your twitter account at a pre-determined time interval.

There is a products subsystem, which shows, where applicable, products from the merchant whose code or offer it is, currently Awin, Webgains, Tradedoubler and POR merchants are included. These products are randomly selected to ensure that no two pages on different sites are the same.

Related offers from the same merchant are also listed at the bottom of the post.

When it's time to import again, then any codes or offers that are already on the blog, won't be duplicated.

Import options are.

Import offers by category
Import vouchers by category or all together
Import offers for a specific merchant
Import vouchers for a specific merchant

The option to add from 5 blocks of random text to the post title, again, to help with duplication issues across sites.

There are quite a few features to add in the next update, but, there is a price reduction until the end of this month.

The test site is here iCodes Test Blog

And the details page is here. iCodes WP Plugin – Exclusive Here | Affiliate Stores

Requirements, an iCodes webservices account, a wordpress blog 2.6 or above, apache webserver with php above 5.0 SOAP enabled, simplexml enabled and remote file fetching enabled.

[lizdav]

Requirements, an iCodes webservices account, a wordpress blog 2.6 or above, apache webserver with php above 5.0 SOAP enabled, simplexml enabled and remote file fetching enabled.

Not quite accurate. It works perfectly well on IIS as well as apache :tup

[scriptmonkey]

Does it? Well thats a turn up for the books, I didn't test it on IIS, but I think I know a man who did excellent news.

[Richard101]

Plug in sounds great. Can the post be deleted automatically when voucher expires?

[scriptmonkey]

That can be added for sure, currently it just marks the code or offer as expired, following the trend in the voucher code arena, I can certainly add a delete routine to the plugin, which will be off by default.

It's on the list for the next upgrade.

[chic_nicola]

Can I just get the code offers to show up in the sidebar (ie, I don't want them in posts)?

Also, which icodes account do I need to sign up for - publisher or basic?

[scriptmonkey]

The plugin has been built as a total site solution, and as such is a little bit of overkill just to display sidebar codes, however, I can certainly make a sidebar widget only version of the plugin, tell me what you would like from it and I'll build it.

You need an iCodes webservices account.

[Barry]

This sounds most excellent. When I get a spare minute I'll dig out a voucher domain and have a go at installing it.

Very nice of you to develop it, nice one.

Ta

Baz

[chic_nicola]

The plugin has been built as a total site solution, and as such is a little bit of overkill just to display sidebar codes, however, I can certainly make a sidebar widget only version of the plugin, tell me what you would like from it and I'll build it.

You need an iCodes webservices account.

I would like the option to have codes in posts or the sidebar or both - is that what it currently does?

[lizdav]

The plugin has been built as a total site solution, and as such is a little bit of overkill just to display sidebar codes, however, I can certainly make a sidebar widget only version of the plugin, tell me what you would like from it and I'll build it.

You need an iCodes webservices account.

Tony,

I will say a few words here about the AWin Plugin ... it allows the addition of AWin products to posts and can pull in voucher codes from the AW API ... it is a more modestly priced solution and depending upon the featured merchants (and networks) required, that may be just the ticket. It has a sidebar voucher widget for AW Merchants.

It is available from Affiliate Window WordPress Plugin sale – limited time remaining | Affiliate Stores where there are some more details.

It is actually complementary to the iCodes Plugin ... which can pull in products based on a query you enter by post (via shortcodes) and will then display relevant random matching query offers, whereas the iCodes plugin starts in the other direction, pulling in codes and offers and then displaying Random products (no keywords used) from the merchant.

The iCodes plugin will develop a site from scratch and keep fresh new content being delivered which you can supplement via manual content (which could also use the AWin WP Plugin)

The AWin WP Plugin doesn't need an iCodes account, but absolutely depends upon you adding manual content.

Hope that gives some further food for thought. And I hope Tony can confirm that I described things OK.

(Unfortunately, the AWin sale is over ... back to full price now, but still fabulous value).

[scriptmonkey]

What it currently does is many things, mostly outlined above, but, I'll reiterate the key points, and in answer to your question, yes, you can display only sidebar widgets, only posts or a combination of the two as in the test site iCodes Test Blog

• Import Vouchers and/or Offers and create posts on an automatic drip-feed scheduled publish with no further intervention from the administrator, or as drafts to enable further editing before publish.
• Automatically flag codes and offers as expired as soon as the expiry date is reached, whilst still allowing clicks to the merchant site.
• No tricks, no code masking, no click here to have a cookie set. Everything clean and clear and above board.
• Import vouchers and/or offers from a single merchant, a single category, or the whole lot.
• Three sidebar widgets which can be added independently of the posting routine.
• Tweet each offer as it's published, with limits in place to keep twitter happy.
• Products displayed below the offer from the merchant, where applicable, no need to download any data, it's all done by webservices.

I could go on, but, I've got updates to code

As far as I'm concerned, it's brilliant, and it will show only sidebar codes if that's what you want it to do.

I'm not Lee

[lizdav]

I'm not Lee

Oops. Was wearing another hat there and confused myself.

[scriptmonkey]

There is a free sidebar widget to show codes that are about to expire and the latest added codes. Download from here http://www.panfashion.co.uk/icodeswidget.zip

Requirements, an iCodes webservices account, php server with simplexml and remote file open enabled.

It will give you two widgets, one to show expiring codes, one to show newly added codes, no updating required, all automatic.

You choose which category of codes to show.

[lizdav]

There is a free sidebar widget to show codes that are about to expire and the latest added codes. Download from here http://www.panfashion.co.uk/icodeswidget.zip

Requirements, an iCodes webservices account, php server with simplexml and remote file open enabled.

It will give you two widgets, one to show expiring codes, one to show newly added codes, no updating required, all automatic.

You choose which category of codes to show.

Leeky has confirmed that the iCodes Test Webservice account is available (iCodes own aff ids will be used) for anyone to try out the plugin and service before taking the plunge on their own webservice account and maybe the iCodes full plugin.

[Leeky]

Testing webservices details...

username: wp-plugin
subscription id: 7d04bbbe5494ae9d2f5a76aa1c00fa2f

I'll also offer anyone a 3 months free trial of the webservices on any purchase made of the wordpress plugin.. the offer may end tomorrow or may end in 7 days (i'll see how it goes)

Simply apply for a webservices account, ignore the paypal button email me with proof of purchasing and i'll then approve your webservices account.

Lee