auction2post v2.0 Wordpress Plugin User Manual
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1. But you certainly could be making someone say I didn t realize that I could get THIS on eBay or provide custom searches that help separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to listings With the highly customized templates of auction2post you can even format the listings to make it a custom experience easier to read and formatted for your site visitors Or you can suck and set it to automatically run 50 broad searches pulling in 100 broad search auctions every hour That would be bad guest bad neighbor Let me explain You are a guest of eBay when you use their API you are knocking on their door asking to be invited in and then asking to borrow the sugar the auction data If you were to knock on my door 50 times and hour and ask me ANYTHING I d be ticked I have a feeling eBay might also Of note your Developer Production AppID gives you 5000 calls to eBay a day Each search you make whether manual or automated uses up a minimum of 2 calls and up to 11 to get your results If you are splogging with nary a care you could easily exceed that amount and keep making calls throughout the day that s like knocking after 10pm and later You are at risk of getting your AppID banned Now on the neighbor side if you are on shared hosting you have dozens maybe hundreds of other neighbors sharing your web server You are paying much less than what it would cost to be on a dedicated server but with those cost savings come some restric2. baseball Use by itself or with a minimum of 2 characters Do not use by itself unless you are using Items with two of the ines words baseball autograph and card For a 3 out of 4 search use 2 and a Items with any two of the three words baseball autograph or card in the title plus the word star with The following Tle apply when there are spaces embedded in multi word query strings 1 Usea single space after a double quote character only when the double quote character is followed by either the minus or plus character 2 Do not use a space before the minus or plus characters when the previous character is the right parenthesis copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 16 Good Neighbor Good Guest Good Tenant Auction2post is one powerful highly customizable plugin that can help make you A LOT of money First and foremost it is a tool that you decide how you use it familiarize yourself with ePN s amp eBay Developer s Terms of Service I advise against using auction2post like a sledgehammer I recommend that you use the plugin to generate highly customized searches and templates and provide a service for your site visitor specifically a resource for finding niche related items for sale Anyone can go to eBay and find something You are not introducing someone to the multi billion dollar company that is eBay for the first time
3. member page Create a new license Current Licenses Your existing licenses are listed below You can download the license fie needed to activate the plugin by clicking on the Download license link and uploading the license file to your web site Enter the domain name of the web site where you will be using the auction2post plugin Domain Name WMW Add domain auction2post com February 7 2015 Download license To install auction2post click the first link under Active Resources and save the auction2post zip file to your desktop Next click the A2P License Manager link to access your License Manager Enter a new domain and click Add Domain then click the Download License link next to your newly created domain under Current Licenses and save to your desktop copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 3 aw public_html f cgi bin auction2post i wp admin S wp content i auto featured image cache D auto post thumbnail 2 plugins m E contact form 7 Now unzip your auction2post zip file by right clicking on it and selecting your Zip program to extract the contents Inside the new extracted folder is the auction2post folder Upload the auction2post folder to your wp content plugins folder on your web host Next upload the a2p license php file that you generated to the directory folder where you have Wordpress installed This will be in the same location that you
4. Delete All a2p Post Click the button to DELETE all AUCTION2POST posts and attachments There is no undo Risk You are deleting all a2p posts and their attachments and losing that content forever You of course could run similar searches to get current auctions reposted Clear Default Settings Click the button to CLEAR all Default Settings There is no undo Risk You are deleting all the defaults you set in General Settings How to get your eBay Developer s App ID In order to use the auction2post wordpress plugin you need to have an eBay Developer Production App ID Lucky for you and me they are free and doled out easily Go to https go developer ebay com Click the Join Now button Enter your details and click submit Click the link in the email to confirm account Log out of the developer site and re login per eBay s instructions Once logged in click Get Access Keys currently across the top or My Account on the left vertical navigation bar Click Generate Production Keys Copy the freshly generated AppID and paste into your auction2post General Settings copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 14 Search Tutorial Below are the parameters that you can set on the Add Auctions tab and Automation tab Generally searches with good keywords and limited to an eBay category will return the most targeted results Click here for a listing of eBay categories http auction2post com faq eb
5. File php Be sure that you don t change the php file extension on the automate php file on your web host either copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 5 Titles In the Title section of the General Settings Tab you can clean up the eBay auction titles which you can then use in either your own post title or within your post using templates see Templates Capital Case Convert the titles to Capital Case capitalizes the first letter of every word or it can Capital Case preserve caps which will preserve any Capital Letters in the title and capitalize the first letter of every word if not already Original NEW NINTENDO WII CONSOLE BUNDLE PACK Capital Case New Nintendo Wii Console Bundle Pack Original Microsoft XBOX for sale with 2 controllers Capital Case Microsoft XBOX For Sale With 2 Controllers Note Unless you deal with products that have acronyms it s generally best to use Capital Case Sanitize Title Enter characters words etc that you would like to remove from the eBay auction title This will remove EVERY instance of the character combination that you enter so think it through a bit i e don t remove the letter a or an Common things to remove L K CHE P no reserve reserve Description Post Text Format Post Text Format You have two options for receiving the eBay auction description Text Description and Description w HTML Text Description returns a block of unformatted
6. Hong Kong the UK etc who list their items for sale on the eBay US site however the products they re selling are often located overseas If you would like to filter out products located in other countries and search only for items that are physically located in the US then you would set this option to United States Pay Per Click Ad Settings This section helps you monetize the posts on your site that were created with Auction2Post After an auction has expired the chances of ebay paying you anything for sending traffic to their site is extremely unlikely Instead of sending free traffic to ebay this is your chance to display something such as a Google Adsense ad an Amazon banner a Commission Junction link or any form of monetization for any affiliate or advertising network you belong to The settings enable you enter code for an ad or link you want to appear above or below the post content You can also elect to have both fields displaying ads at the same time copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 7 Manually Add Auctions Note you can set defaults for any field of the Add Auctions tab in General Settings Options No other plugin gives you this much control over your search parameters You have the ability to select up to 25 different parameters to meet your search criteria However they are ALL optional depending on what kind of search you are doing If you re not getting results try a less restricti
7. a targeted search Now a search for wii console in category 13997 the new wii system category on ebay that are Buy It Now items priced under 300 now that s a targeted niche specific search 390 results and you can post those to a wii console category for improved search engine optimization and site navigation Good Tenant Policy Let s add the Good Tenant policy as you are leasing space from your web host on shared hosting to the list above This is in regard to the space that you use on your shared hosting plan which even if they say it s unlimited it s not If you are going to host your own images on your server and link to them instead of using eBay images you ll want to be sure to click Hotlink Images in all of your templates The Hotlink Images checkbox reads Select to hotlink images from eBay vs downloading to your web host or if you don t want images at all Posts publish faster amp saves space images display as broken when eBay removes auction When the plugin runs it asks eBay for all the images associated w the auction and temporarily stores those and when it comes time to deal with the post it looks at your template and sees if you want to write them to file or just hotlink them if you opt to hotlink it looks for the img tag in your post and and looks for img tag in your custom field values and replaces them with the URLs as long as it has URLs otherwise it downloads the images and replaces the t
8. ad the saved a2p license php file on your desktop to the directory folder where you have Wordpress installed This will be in the same location that your wp config php file is kept usually public_html directory Remove the a2p link php file from the auction2post folder and place in the same directory folder as shown above Locating the file here is required in order to mask eBay s roverlinks Go to your plugins page in the Wordpress admin and activate auction2post Go to your General Settings tab of auction2post to configure General Settings Quick Start Guide 1 2 3 4 5 Enter your eBay Developer s App ID the plugin can not use the API without it Select your Target Country Enter a default Campaign ID that you generated at the eBay Partner Network website Enter a default Custom ID for tracking purposes if required Click Save Settings Add Auctions Quick Start Guide 1 2 3 4 5 Enter a search keyword or search string in the Search Terms field Click Search eBay Post Block or Skip auction results Select the category of your website to post or create a new one Click Publish Auctions as Posts Automation Quick Start Guide 1 2 3 4 5 Enter a name to save your automation event as check your Campaign ID is there enter a keyword in Search Terms Click Add Automated Search Post Select whether to run the Automation hourly or daily Select the date and time to start th
9. ags w urls on your web server If it goes through your template and doesn t find any img or img tags it discards the URLs that have been temporarily stored and moves on so really if you click Hotlink Images and don t use an img tag but rather your own hosted images in the templates then it merely temporarily stores the image URLs from eBay then discards them No harm no foul copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 18 Here s a quick comparison of sites that have been running for a few weeks real sites Site A is downloading images Site B is hot linking images After one week of posting Site A has 900 posts and is taking up 150MB of diskspace After one week of posting Site B has 400 posts and is taking up 15MB of diskspace remember we re hot linking Clearly you can see the difference but it s even more profound when you consider that they both have the same Wordpress install and plugins installed no mail on either these are fresh installs my point here is that it might look like one is just 5 times larger double the posts one might double the size when in fact it s much more so than that for a real comparison we would remove the shared Wordpress install files plugin files etc which is unfairly weighing Site B s stats What I m saying is Site B is clearly smaller BUT it will scale much smaller too It s not even close to 15MB for every 400 posts because each additional post is
10. auction2post v2 0 Wordpress Plugin User Manual Last modified March 11 2015 Table of Contents Quick Start Guide 2 Installation 3 General Settings 5 Using Custom Taxonomies 7 Pay Per Click Ad Monetization 7 Manually Adding Auctions as Posts 8 Creating and Using Templates 8 Creating Automation Events 10 Maintenance 13 How to Get Your eBay Developer App ID 14 Search Tutorial 15 Good Neighbor Good Guest Good Tenant Policy 17 copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 1 QUICK START GUIDE Installation Quick Start Guide 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a b 8 9 10 11 12 13 Go to http zixby com member signup php Enter your details and click Continue You will be redirected to PayPal to make your payment Upon making your payment you will be redirected to the login page http zixby com member login php Enter your username and password and click Login Click the link under Active Resources auction2post v2 0 Download and save to your desktop Click the License Manager link under A2P License Manager Enter your domain and click Add Domain Click the Download License link next to the domain save a2p license php file to your desktop Unzip the auction2post zipped archive by right clicking on the file and selecting Extract All Upload the auction2post folder from within the newly created extraction folder to your website s plugins folder on your web server Uplo
11. ay category id numbers Campaign ID Your eBay Campaign ID Custom ID A custom ID you can set for improved tracking Buy It Now Items Only Restricts search to items that have a Buy It Now feature Search Title AND Description Searches for keyword search terms in both title and description Hide Duplicates Hides duplicate items from a single seller that are the same price Search Terms Enter your keywords here separated by commas Exclude Terms Enter negative keywords words you don t want to appear in an auction or title here eBay Category Enter an eBay category to limit search to particular category refining your results End Time Filter Refine your search to items ending within a specific amount of time Leaving this setting blank will return all items Bids Set minimum and maximum bid thresholds Price Set minimum and maximum price thresholds Seller ID Limits your search to a particular eBay Seller Exclude Seller IDs Exclude sellers from search results separating them by commas Condition Options are New or Used must be set by eBay seller Item Sort By default the most recently added auctions are returned Sort Order Some item sort options allow for specifying ascending or descending Item Type Default is all items but you can explicitly define what type of results you want returned Postal Code Set the Postal Code for reference of the Maximum Distance parameter Maximum Distance Set the
12. e every day week etc For examp e you ccu d set a cron job to delete temporary files every week so tbat your disk space is not being used up by tbcse fi es Warning You need to have a good knowledge of Linux commands before you can use cron jobs effectively Check your script with your hosting administrator before adding a cron job Please choose your experience level Advanced Unix Style Enter a command you can either try one below or check with your host for which is allowed and select the frequency that you would like your automated events to fire wget http yourdomain com wp content plugins auction2post automate php or curl http yourdomain com wp content plugins auction2post automate php Entry 1 Command to run cur http d comAvp content plugins auction2post automate php Minute s Months s Every Six Hours 0 12 AM Midnight Delete copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 12 Note you are able to change the name of automate php for security reasons Change the name in your auction2post plugin folder AND on your General Settings tab then replace in the above command as well IMPORTANT the more frequently you run the script the more calls you make using the eBay API If you schedule too frequently your IP could be flagged Really there s not much reason to call more than every hour Remember just because you are running your automated event doesn t mean there are new auction
13. e first automation event Click Start The Automation copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 2 Installation Since auction2post comes with free lifetime support and upgrades the software uses a membership program to keep track of those who have purchased thereby allowing the user to receive information on future upgrades and access to support To purchase auction2post signup here http zixby com member signup php Upon a successful payment via PayPal you will be redirected to http zixby com member member php you can go here at any time by typing the URL in your browsers address bar If you are not logged in please do so with the username and password you set up when signing up This is your membership home page or Dashboard Your Membership Information Active Subscriptions auction2post Lifetime Active Resources auction2post auction2post v2 A2P U Manual Download Useful Links Logout Change Password Edit Profile Advertise ou ebsite to your friends and earn money A2P License Manager License Manager for Auction2post and Auction2press Support Forum Forum for A2P Products On your membership home page you can download auction2post and create licenses for each domain where you install auction2post You are allowed unlimited domains but each requires a unique a2p license php file that is generated with the License Manager License Manager Back to
14. lease Page 6 Custom Taxonomies Post types Categories Tags ad_listing i Custom Post Type ad_cat Custom Category Type ii ad_tag Custom Tag Type If your Wordpress theme uses Custom Taxonomies and you want A2P to post ebay auctions within those taxonomies then enter the name of the taxonomies EXACTLY as your theme uses them For example the ClassiPress theme uses a Custom Post Type called ad_ listing a Custom Category Type called ad_cat and a Custom Tag Type called ad_tag This means you would enter ad_listing ad_cat and ad_tag into these fields Again they must be spelled EXACTLY as your theme uses them If you need help finding your theme s Custom Taxonomies please ask for assistance in the forums If your theme does not use Custom Taxonomies then these settings must be left blank Post Defaults Search Options and Defaults Template Defaults Set defaults for post search and templates that appear every time you pull up a search or template NB Please note two new Search Options available in A2P version 2 0 End Time Filter This setting lets you refine your search to items ending within a specific amount of time Leaving this setting blank will return all items Item Location Country This option allows you to find items that are physically located in a specific country For example the eBay US site is not limited to sellers only within the US There are sellers from Australia China
15. llow you to take complete control of the auction information you receive from eBay through the eBay API Templates are especially useful for formatting your posts to fit the look of your website Template Settings Post Author Select the user you want to be selected as post author Hotlink Images You have two options when it comes to images you can either download them to your server so you serve them up locally default or you can select Hotlink Images and just hotlink the images that are hosted on eBay s servers The second option is good for those with small hosting plans speeds up posting time 10 fold but does increase your pages footprint and when eBay removes the auction those images will no longer show up in your posts if you don t have delete expired posts checked in General Settings copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 8 Note If you don t plan to use ANY images from the eBay auction in your post e g you host your own stock image and use that in every post click Hotlink Images so that the plugin doesn t download images to your web host by default Allow Comments Allow Pings Check whether you want to allow pings and comments on these posts you create Title Post Excerpt Whatever you would want to see in the post title post body and post excerpt go in these fields Utilize template tags to pull in the eBay API results Custom Field Keys Custom Field Values Use these fields to set you
16. mation tab otherwise nothing will happen no automation events to search amp post Key difference if you use the automation tab it is not a TRUE automation After scheduling your automation event in the automation tab it will not actually add auctions until someone visits your site which triggers the event to run On a daily cycle this is probably not an issue However if you want your automated events to absolutely run every hour or more frequently then you need to use cron either by editing your crontab or through cPanel crontab If you have access to your crontab you can enter the following line 5 12 wget q http yourdomain com wp content plugins auction2post automate php 0 dev null Note you are able to change the name of automate php for security reasons Change the name in your auction2post plugin folder AND on your General Settings tab then replace in the above command as well cPanel In cPanel login and click on the Cron Jobs icon yours may look different check with your web host Advanced A a gt fal 4 3 ty FrontPage Apache Image Index Error Cron jobs EStansions Network Handlers Manager Manager pages Tools Submit a MIME Support Types Request copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 11 Click Standard on the next window A3 Cron Jobs Cron Jobs aiiow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site You can set a command or script tc run at a specific tim
17. maximum distance from the Postal Code required Item Location Allows you to find items that are physically located in a specific country Maximum auctions to publish as posts Set the maximum number of auctions you want to have returned for consideration of adding as posts Store Search Restricts search to a particular eBay store Product Search Allows to specify ISBN UPC or EAN for returning specific product results copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 15 Search Terms Space Applies AND between logic to words multiple Ke VW Ord Comma Applies AND between logic to ull Applies OR between logic words to multiple Requires an exact sequence of Specified word cannot be Specified words cannot be presen Substitutes for one or more characters Search must find two of three Concatenates a query string using AND logic baseball card baseball card baseball card baseball card baseball autograph baseball autograph card star baseball 1 baseball autograph card 1 baseball autograph card star Items with both the words baseball and card Items with both the words baseball and card Items with either the word baseball or the word card Items with the exact phrase baseball Items that have the word baseball Items with the word baseball but not autograph card or star Items starting with the string
18. merely text linking to images that are already on the server You can test yourself but really if space is an issue check hotlink images so you are not downloading and either use the hotlinked image or better yet have your own stock image to display and link that from say your images directory Note Hotlinking images will leave a footprint Is that an issue That s for you to decide However it will ONLY leave a footprint if you use img or img tags in your template If you click Hotlink Images with the intent of NOT using any eBay images hence no img tags and use your own self hosted images or no images there is NO footprint since there are no links back to eBay other than your masked rover link i hope I will look at how we can mask hotlinked ebay images in the future copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 19
19. missions from traffic that s generated from search traffic If you are adding 1000s of posts and hour I ve benchmarked it auction2post can do it you instantly stand out and raise flags with search engines as a potential spam blog not to mention you re being a bad guest most likely and if you re on shared hosting you re most definitely being a bad neighbor Another consideration to think about is how many new auctions are added each hour in your niche If it s less than 50 the case for most specific niches then you don t need to request 100 posts for every automated search A better approach would be to drip feed them throughout the day instead and post 10 auctions every hour auction2post ALWAYS asks for 100 results this is considered one call and depending on the number returned cycles through them asking for more information on 10 auctions at a time So multiples of 10 make sense when trying to optimize your calls So if your category sees generally 15 25 new auctions an hour during the day but considerably less at night you could set your automation event to return 10 optimized results to post every hour and end up playing catch up during the slower periods during the evening and overnight Note The most important thing to do in order to generate traffic and commissions is to run targeted niche specific searches that return targeted niche specific results A search for wii is ridiculous There are 59 000 results returned That is not
20. ountryID returns US until int support integrated galleryURL returns URL for gallery image listingType returns auction fixedPrice etc location returns eBay seller s location primaryCategoryID returns eBay category id copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 9 primaryCategoryName returns eBay category name quantity returns the quantity available quantitySold returns the number items sold startTime returns a very ugly time code timeLeft returns a very ugly time code bestOfferEnabled returns yes or no buyItNowAvailable returns yes or no reserveMet returns yes or no Post Images with Template Tags img for each tag an image is returned if it exists else nothing The nested brackets are for img parameters img width 300 Custom Value Images Use img in the Custom Field Value to retrieve an image url either hotlinked or self hosted These are generally for magazine layout themes and ideally your theme allows for automatic resizing of image and bows out gracefully if no image exists Creating and Scheduling Automation Events One of the most powerful features of auction2post is it s ability to automatically run your website unattended through automation events The first step is to create an automation event and then schedule the automation events See the Search Tutorial in the Appendix to for full explanation of search parameters Create A
21. r custom field keys and their respective values Great for magazine style layouts for setting feature images may require some theme modification Photo Slug If you are downloading images to your web host you can set a slug for each image to help with keyword density Example nintendo wii game console this slug will be the prefix for the photo specific file name that is automatically generated Creating and Editing Templates Select your options enter any desired tags custom text images etc in the post fields enter your photo slug enter a name and click Save Template done Your template joins the other templates at the top of the page To edit a template click View Edit for the template you want to view edit it s loaded below edit as needed click Save Template done Template Tags Template tags pull in the respective information returned by the eBay API See the tags below and what they bring in to the post link returns link to eBay auction title returns the auction title subtitle returns auction subtitle if present description returns auction description currentPrice returns current price buyItNowPrice returns Buy It Now Price if set minimumToBid returns amount necessary to bid bidCount returns the number of bids postalCode returns zip code where item located endTime returns a very ugly endTime seller returns eBay seller name itemID returns item s ID c
22. r wp config php file is kept usually public_html directory Go to the plugins section of your Wordpress admin panel and select Activate next to auction2post The plugin is now installed If you received an error then check to see that you uploaded the right a2p license php file to your wordpress directory Also auction2post uses ionCube to encrypt it s source files Your host should have the appropriate loaders already pre installed if not you need a better web host In order to use auction2post you must configure your General Settings see next section copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 4 General Settings The General Settings tab of auction2post is the first stop after activation You need to enter your eBay Developer s App ID your Target Country your Default Campaign ID and enter your Default Custom ID optional but recommended See the Appendix for How to Get Your eBay Developer s App ID Options Mask Links Mask links allows you to hide your eBay affiliate links from the search engines and site visitors This can help your search page rankings and looks more natural to your site visitor We strongly recommend that you enable this feature 1 Click the Mask Links check box 2 Move the file a2p link php from wp content plugins auction2post to your Wordpress install folder usually your www or public_html folder 3 Download and edit your htaccess file you may want to make a backup fi
23. rst in the same folder you placed a2p link php and insert the following code ABOVE any Wordpress code RewriteEngine On RewriteBase RewriteRule html a2p link php postID 2 4 Save the file and upload back to the Wordpress install folder overwriting the old htaccess Delete expired auction posts Check this box and auction2post will automatically prune delete posts of expired auctions and their attachments Remove everything on deactivation I f you want to delete all traces of auction2post from your Wordpress installation check this box It will remove all auction2post tables that were added to your database and removes all stored options in the Wordpress options table All of your posts remain See Maintenance for how to remove all auction2post posts Rename automate php As an added measure of security auction2post allows you to rename the automate php file so that someone can not maliciously attack your site by calling the file repeatedly and causing grief You must follow these steps exactly for your automation to work if you change the name 1 Enter new file name for automate php in the field e g myAutoFile php 39sjf3kd php etc 2 Click Save Settings 3 Change the name of the automate php file in wp content plugins auction2post to exactly what you entered into the field e g myAutoFile php 39sjf3kd php etc Note In the rename automate php field you must include the extension php e g myAuto
24. s to post If you have a search that consistently returns 100 auctions every hour meaning 2400 new auctions a day consider refining that search as it appears to be rather broad Maintenance The Maintenance tab gives you the ability to manage the auction2post posts tables and options quickly and easily with one click There is no undo on this page so tread with care Clear Pending Click the button to clear PENDING auctions There is no undo Risk Pending auctions created from a search will be removed from the database and NOT posted Unblock Blocked Auctions Click the button to clear blocked auctions There is no undo Risk Auctions marked as BLOCKED will be unblocked and show up again in search results Clear Auctions DB Click the button to clear the AUCTIONS database table There is no undo Risk Blocked auctions will return and you will probably end up with duplicate auction posts unless you delete all a2p posts Delete Expired a2p Attachments Click the button to delete all attachments belonging to expired posts There is no undo Risk All image links will now show up as broken on expired posts but you will be saving a significant amount of disk space Delete Expired a2p Posts Click the button to delete all EXPIRED posts There is no undo Risk All expired posts and their attachments will be deleted and you are losing the content forever copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 13
25. text Description w HTML returns the eBay listing with all of the markup language included Leave the Allowable Tags field blank to allow it all through will most certainly break your website layout or enter allowable tags in the field to have the benefit of paragraphs and limited formatting w out breaking your layout lt p gt is the recommended tag to include others at your own risk Post Text Word Count This setting allows you to limit the number of words to put into your post Many eBay sellers reuse the same phrases such as Return Policy Shipping Charges About Us etc and other boilerplate text at the end of their auctions This can produce an abundance of duplicate content that is irrelevant to what the post is about Entering a value such as 250 will post only the first 250 words of the auction text and dispose of the rest If you leave this field blank then all of the auction text will be posted Display a Buy It Now Button and Price or a Contact Seller Button If you would like the listings that have a BUY IT NOW option available to display a buy it now button as well as the buy it now price use this setting to select where to display them If the listing is not a BUY IT NOW this setting will instead display a nice graphic to direct the user over to ebay If required you can also enable the option to open up eBay outbound links in a new browser window copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software re
26. tions The auction2post plugin does take some system resources in order to run There are things you can do to help minimize the amount of resources necessary but most important is how you use the plugin in a shared hosting environment Making 50 automated broad search events every hour for 100 listings is being a very bad neighbor akin to blasting your music at 3 am during a raucous party and leaving empties garbage passed out party goers all over the neighborhood That would be like making 5000 blog posts an hour clearly you can see that s going to take some significant system resources you may get flagged by your host for breaking their Terms of Service by monopolizing system resources and being a bad neighbor The result you get the boot from their server Server migration isn t fun and if you don t change your ways you re going to get the same response from the next host How to be a good guest good neighbor So you might be asking what s the point of automation if I can t even run it Well I certainly didn t say you can t run it but you need to run it in a manner that is responsible and ultimately in a manner that is going to earn you the most commissions copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 17 When it comes to automation stop and think for a moment about what you are trying to accomplish are you trying to mirror every eBay auction for a specific category uh why or are you trying to earn com
27. utomated Event Enter a name for saving your automated event enter automated post setup options automated search options and click Add Automated Search Post Preview Automated Event Click Preview Automated Event on the event you want to preview A window will pop up showing you up to 20 auctions that your search would return This does not filter out auctions that have already been added to your website as posts It is more a tool to see what types of auctions would be returned when it fires automatically and gives you a chance to refine your search accordingly Editing Automated Events To edit an automated event click View Edit for the event you want to view edit it s loaded below edit as needed click Update Search Post Details done copyright 2015 auction2post a zixby software release Page 10 Scheduling Automation via Automation Tab Schedule when you want your automation events to run either hourly or daily Select the date and time to start your automation Click Start The Automation The automation is scheduled To stop the automation click Stop The Automation Automation Tab vs CRON You have a couple options for setting automation on your auction2post install You can use the automation tab which will use the wp_schedule_events function or you can schedule via cron IMPORTANT whether scheduling via the automation tab or through cron requires that you still create automated events in the auto
28. ve search to test perhaps just a keyword then refine Refer to the search tutorial for an explanation of all of the search parameters Search eBay After entering your search criteria click Search eBay to have auctions that matched your search results returned for possible inclusion as posts Post Block Skip Once the eBay API has made it s call and returned with results you will be presented with auctions with the option to post block or skip Post Default selection auction will be turned into a post Block This will block an auction from returning in your search results in the future regardless of the search A nice feature if someone has miscategorized an auction or your search result can t be refined to eliminate a particular group of auctions See the Maintenance section for unblocking blocked auctions Skip This will skip this auction for posting this one time but it will return in future searches Sometimes a listing will sneak through that you don t want to post with the current template or in the selected category Skip it and include it on an upcoming search Post Settings Select the template to use for posting select the category or create a new one insert post tags optional click Publish Auctions as Posts to publish as posts or select Customize Template to tweak template prior to posting See Templates for more information on creating and using templates Creating and Using Templates Templates a
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