Fubaby Fast eBay Listings provides additional shortcodes and widgets to let you integrate WordPress with eBay. It presents eBay feeds, auctions and items on your WordPress pages and posts.
- Display single or listings of eBay items
- Display eBay RSS feeds
- Present in multiple columns and/or rows
- Slideshow presentation, auto or manual progression.
- Dynamic widget to show eBay items relevant to current page
- Search for items from any given seller
- Search by keywords
- Filter results by category or price range
- Tailor number of results to display
- Items are shown with thumbnail, size customisable
- Full items details can be shown: price, end date, BIN etc
- In built caching to prevent unnecessary page load delays
A key feature of Fubaby Fast eBay Listings is the ability to utilise the eBay Partner Network to earn commission on click throughs from the listings this WordPress eBay Plugin creates to the eBay site. This is a great way to monetise your site, whether you present your own items on eBay or from other sellers. This free WordPress eBay Partner Network plugin will redirect 50% of clicks to earn the developers commission, supporting and maintaining this plugin.
Demo:
Installation
You can download this plugin from the WordPress.org site here.
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/fastebaylistingsdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Use the ‘Settings->Fast eBay Listings’ screen to configure the plugin
Usage
The shortcodes you use in your posts or pages are all accessible from the WordPress visual editor toolbar, and will present a simple pop-up to enter your eBay search criteria.
‘eBay Search’ – Display items from a custom search
Use the following pop-up within the WordPress visual editor to create and edit your shortcode to search eBay for items and present them in your post or page. You can filter your search by a number of criteria like keywords, categories, seller price etc.
Shortcode Arguments:
- query – keywords to search for on eBay
- category – comma separated list of eBay category id’s (max of three) to filter results by
- seller – filter results to given seller
- minprice – filter results to those above given price
- maxprice – filter results to those below given price
- sort – search results are sorted by this (default Ending Soonest)
- columns – display results across given number of columns
- rows – display results across given number of rows
- picwidth – desired width dimension of thumbnails
- slideshow – display as a slideshow: Manual, Auto or Default (from settings)
- slides – number of slides to cycle between
If arguments are omitted, defaults from plugin setting will be used instead. eBay provides images in the sizes 80px, 96px, 140px, 400px and 800px. To avoid in browser scaling choose one of these, otherwise Fast eBay Listings will utilise the next largest to the stipulated ‘Picture Width’ argument.
Some examples:
Demo example, static grid
Demo example, automatic slideshow
‘eBay Item’ – Display a single item
Use the following pop-up within the WordPress visual editor to create and edit your shortcodes to display a single eBay item or image within your post or page.
Single Item
Presents details of a single eBay item listing.
Arguments:
- item – the ebay item number to display
- picwidth – desired width dimension of thumbnails
Example:
Single Image
Presents just the image from a single eBay item listing.
Same arguments as above
‘eBay RSS Feed’ – Display items from an eBay feed
Use the following pop-up within the WordPress visual editor to create and edit your eBay RSS shortcode with your post or page, and bring in eBay items from an RSS feed you have created using the RSS Generator.
eBay have now been deprecated RSS feeds. This feature will be obsoleted soon.
Shortcode arguments:
- feed – the url of the eBay RSS feed
- columns – display results across given number of columns
- rows – display results across given number of rows
- picwidth – desired width dimension of thumbnails (RSS feed supplies only 140px wide pictures)
- slideshow – display as a slideshow: Manual, Auto or Default (from settings)
- slides – number of slides to cycle between
If items are omitted, defaults from plugin setting will be used.
Note RSS thumbnails are all supplied at 140px width, using other values will cause image scaling in browser.
Additionally the shortcode tag ‘content’ can be used to populate a header link.
Widget Usage
Fast eBay Listings supplies a number of widgets to display eBay items, perfect for promoting items in your site margins and footer. These widgets can display an eBay RSS feed, your own search results or a dynamic search based on the current page or post.
All widgets can be customised to present items in a column, row or grid of any size, with pictures of any size and with the option of a manual or automated slideshow.
Fixed Search Widget
This widget presents an eBay search similar to the ebay_search shortcode in a WordPress widget and will show the results from a fixed eBay search query.
The widget form contains fields matching the same as ebay_search, so you can filter in the same manner, choose to display in grid with as many columns or rows as you like and with the same slideshow options.
RSS Search Widget
Similar to above, this is a widget version of the ebay_rss shortcode, featuring the very same options.
Dynamic Search Widget
This widget presents an eBay search similar to the Fixed Search widget, however the search query is dynamically driven by the current page displayed. On pages and posts, the title is used as the search query. When browsing categories or tags, the category or tag is used as the eBay query. As a fallback, a default query can be specified for other pages.
Use this widget to display eBay items related to page visitors are reading. You can of course further filter this by a given eBay categories, seller, price etc