This is a test of the Popshops Wordpress plugin. There is an option to insert an already created shop into the blog. But for this post, I will be testing the Popshops menu button to add a product while I type in this post. So here goes … I’m about to press the button …
Star Wars Princess Leia Slave Adult Costume
Price: $49.99
Includes: Top
briefs with skirt
belt
choker
arm band
hair clips
headpiece.
Earrings and shoes not included.
This is an officially licensed Star Wars costume.
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After pressing the button a pop-up menu appeared on the right side of my screen with a search option. I typed in the word ‘costume’ and said go find me a product. About 4600 products appeared for buycostumes – which I selected. The results show a thumbnail of the product, price, and description. Basically, what I setup in my Preferences to have shown for a product.
Next to the product was a Big Blue Plus sign. Clicking on the plus sign for the Princess Leia costume caused the above information to immediately be imported into this post.
I will now publish this post.
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Done. Looks nice. Now I’m back to editing this post. The new product does not appear in my Popshops online account, so this may be hard to keep track of if the product becomes unavailable or I lose my affiliate account with the merchant.
I also noticed the links go through Popshops. No hiding the affiliate link for SEO purposes.
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Second edit. After adding the popshops php code used for my regular, static websites that is designed to hide affiliate links and run all links through my domain url – no effect, even though the support page indicates it might work. This is in Beta so I’ll assume it is not working.
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Third edit. Clicked on the link and checked my online popshops account. Nothing. I believe since this product was not added within a ’shop’ that it cannot be tracked or noticed in the online PopShops account.
However, I was able to modify the default product description. I put product details on their own lines and created blank lines in a couple places. This is extremely useful and one of the major problems with the PopShop accounts where product descriptions could be modified to make unique, but blank lines could not be added. This has generally meant that descriptions are short and ugly.
Very nice. But since the information appears to be ‘hard coded’ into the blog post, I do not believe pricing will automatically update. And there is no option for the great feature of having a replacement product shown.
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Fourth edit: After clicking through the link to the merchant website I saw the Commission Junction PID was for the wrong website. Looking at my PopShops account, the PID being used was for another website, but not IPU. Checking further, though, IPU has not been setup as a website profile within PopShops.
So, now I have setup the IPU PID profile in PopShops. I’m going to add the same product again, below, and see what happens (in the pop-up preferences I am also deselecting the option to show the price since it will not automatically update):
Star Wars Princess Leia Slave Adult Costume
Includes: Top, briefs with skirt, belt, choker, arm band, hair clips, and headpiece. Earrings and shoes not included. This is an officially licensed Star Wars costume.
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No effect. Still has the wrong PID, and still no SEO’d url.
Bottom line: very nice feature I will probably use. Tracking though, for the product popper, leaves a lot to be desired unless one manually takes action to fix the PopShops url – such as changing the link to a domain link that redirects through the Popshops url. Since the PID is all on PopShops end it cannot be fixed here. Some of these problems may be fixed with pages using already created shops, but this testing as strictly been for the product popper option for the Popshops Wordpress plugin.
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