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The auction2post plugin for Wordpress turns eBay auctions into posts for your website. Run searches for popular products and create a new post for each auction complete with auction description, images, and of course, your aff link.

I'm releasing the free version for people to experiment with while I continue developing the premium version. I'm certainly interested in any additional functionality you'd like to see in the premium version, so leave comments below.

Drop me a PM here or sign up at auction2post.com to get the free version.

Here's the current feature list for the premium plugin:

You can see the results of the free version here: beetleclassic.com

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nachoninja

looks sweet, will be testing out

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jpet10

Nice +rep (especially for free)! Im building a few sites that this will definitely come in real handy.

acemenace

that is one sweet looking mofo! for sure gonna try it.

Dreo13

Nice. Was going to get phpBay, but will def give this a try. +rep for freeness

radio

like phpbay lite - this is the free version - so keep your expectations in check!

finishing up some final tweaks, will send out tonight. thanks to everyone who has signed up and offered feedback thus far.

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greenleaves

wow this is cool, your AwesomenessQuotient is definitively High

nmwando

thats one sweet looking plug in. I can test it out for you here 4gbipodshuffle.com.

i had php bay installed but wouldnt mind testing something new out.

turbolapp

me likey

Jsmith

Looks pretty sweet. I'll give her a try.

radio

link is now on the site for download. auction2post.com

play with it, get an idea of what it can do - give me some feedback. there are some tweaks that i'll be making, but the focus is now going to be on the premium version feature list.

also, you need to get an eBay Developer Production AppID here: http://developer.ebay.com/

thanks for beta testing!

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spdstores

Can you use this on pages instead of doing posts?

Thanks

radio

not currently... and a little stumped why you would want to. feel free to explain.

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spdstores

allows you to set up a auto updating page of auctions instead of having to delete posts of expired auctions which will leave 404 errors.

radio

i follow what you are saying. initial development didn't include expiring posts, it was requested and i figured i'd implement it. any seo experts w/ a suggestion for handling the 404 more gracefully?

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Red_Virus

I will give it a try, this one looks really cool.

Thanks Radio.

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atoreese

Looking forward to playing with this. Thank Champ

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JamesH

Looks good, I'll give it a go on some sites.

halo18

I have to admit - when I first read the title I thought to myself "Do I really need another phpBay?"

Then I read the feature list and looked at the example blog. This looks awesome thus far, and I'll definitely be trying it out.

Oh, and for the expired posts... I'd imagine just a 301 to the category page or the home page would do the trick. Should nicely route all the links these posts get (probably from splog ping crawl, in my case) as well.

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AdHustler

def cool. I will need to try it.

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Grindstone

no expert but there's a pretty cool plugin that deals with 404s that basically just redirects to a search page of your current content...can't think of the name but it has 404 in it.

thanks for the plugin! any idea on the price tag on the premium one?

kelhalla2

very cool looking software and feature list - will give it a try. looks like you will have lots of premium version buyers if it works well.

Maitiú

Looks very nice, cheers matey!

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radio

looking at a june 1st target release date. premium plugin price point between $49 - $99 based on similar plugins. of course there will be a nice wf discount code.

anyone having issues w/ signing up for the eBay developer app id? you are allowed 5000 calls a day with it out of the box (free), but if you get your application approved you can get 1.5 million/day. I need to find out more about the approval process and perhaps make signing up for the app id optional. advantage of your own appid is that you know you're going to get your 5000 calls a day and not be dependent on someone else.

developer production appid should look something like this:
joeblow-3se4-8dab-aec4-122w91497895f

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Grindstone

stupid n00b question (didn't see a readme file in the plugin)...underneath the appID box theres a Default Campaign ID box and a Default Custom ID box...what goes there?

Grindstone

OK, this plugin is fucking awesome!! I'd rep you again but apparently I need to spread some love around first. PM'd you my landing page if you want to see it. I just "built" a site in just over an hour that I had scheduled 20 hours to build (which means it would have taken me 30+). FKNA...now to go search the forum for EPN info.

Thanks man!!!

radio

just looked at your site - freaking awesome!

wanted to get this out as quickly as possible - so yeah, no readme...

in case it wasn't clear: you need to be accepted to the ebay partner network to make commissions with this plugin.

Campaign ID is your EPN campaign id you want to use for the site. So for my example, I created a campaign id for beetleclassic - 5336252766 - that's how EPN knows who to pay - so be sure to set that otherwise you're just sending free clicks!

Custom ID is anything you want it to be - it's for tracking. So say I just wanted to use one campaign id across many sites - then i could set the custom id for each site beetleclassic for example. You can see that my current custom id is "freeversiontest".

The premium version will allow for the assigning of a custom id on each search that is generated. This is great for tracking what's driving winning bidders to eBay - might even make it dynamic so you can know exactly which post sent the winning bidder through.

hope that helps - again - nice looking site!

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Grindstone

Thanks, figured that was the case. The first 10 items are mine so I still get paid from free clicks but I'll get on that EPN business as soon as I get off work.

Again, this thing is f'n awesome and all the tracking bits you're talking about in the premium edition sound sweet.

radio

didn't even think of that market - eBay sellers/powersellers who want to have a blog auto generate with their auctions - dumped into the auction category or specific product subcategory. thanks for helping to expand my thinking and market!

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Grindstone

Yeah, that's a huge market for your plugin right there. 99% of them can't even figure out a blog or their own platform (that's why they still sell on ebay even tho they're getting raped on fees) so you'd want to have a bunch of free walkthru videos on the presell to get thru the barrier of retardity.

If the free one is this badass, I can't wait to see the premium version.

erect

Well said grind.

Good looking stuff radio!!! ... will give it a whirl soon.

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crazyfish

Looks pretty sweet, I'll have to give it a try.

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medicalhumor

I'm getting this when trying to add posts:

Pretty generic message.

any idea on what this error might be???

server is running php5 and WordPress Version 2.7.1

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bobsoap

This looks great, I'll give it a try soon! Thanks for sharing, +rep

radio

did you enter your ebay dev appID on the general options tab? that would probably generate the error. The ebay API isn't fool proof - sometimes it barfs on acceptable queries... so i loop the query three times and this has seemed (in limited testing) to be an adequate number. i haven't had the problem since, so i'm suspecting there's an error in your appID...

any follow up would be great. thanks for testing it out!

i've also heard some issues on zensix boxes - will check w/ subigo on this. currently hosting my auction2post.com site on his new DA server. highly recommended.

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radio

medicalhumor sent me a pm saying issue is resolved on his box - category is for the ebay category #, not the blog category. that's not implemented yet. it's default behavior is to dump everything into the default category on your blog ('uncategorized' is default - but you may have changed name).

if you're having an issue with the plugin, put in a generic search term like 'wii' and set the number of auctions to return to 1 and add the posts. that's a good test to see things are working, then you can expand the search query.

i'll be sure to have good documentation when i release the premium version.

also, subigo has been great to work with while we troubleshoot what the issue is with the zensix cpanel box and this plugin. we're good to go on the Direct Admin host. You can get a great deal on that box by clicking here!

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LazyHippy

Looks great man, will have a play later.

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Benji49

Looks really nice, but I'm too busy to beta test it. I just wanna buy when it comes out and the bugs are fixed.

Really, WF is the only place to shop now for Wordpress plugins. Could we have a sticky listing all Wordpress plugins for sale by WF senior members? I was thinking WPReview, RealVMS and now auction2post?

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radio

thanks for taking a look benji - appreciate it. it's not that the free version is buggy - it's just not really documented. waiting for the well documented premium version is all good in the hood too!

seeing others in here coming up with cool ideas and implementing them has inspired me to give it a go.

and the issue has been resolved on the zensix cPanel boxes - it's just not the cleanest solution yet. basically a php.ini file needs to be dropped in the right folders - as it stands, i have a php.ini file in EVERY folder on my account - well that fixed it, but now i need to figure out which folders actually need it. will do that in time. also, i tried the plugin on the DA box and it works, but it chugs quite a bit. although this will have the capacity to be a fully functioning autoblog / spamblog - you might get the boot if you are using too many resources on shared. fyi.

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Karnul

Awesome plugin concept - good job.

stevehnsn

I am totally going to try this plugin. Thanks!

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Donace

I think the plugin that redirects to a search when a 404 occurs is apache404 or that is the one I use and is good at its job.

I actually stumbled across this via your sig before I found this thread.

Though the Self updating page idea =+1 as a combines amazon and ebay 'shop' page spliced together sounds nice!

Will try and break it and looking forward to the premium

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radio

thanks for the tip Donace - will check it out and will consider an autoupdating page.

spent some time last night with pen and paper and mapped much of this out - will spend tonight through sunday coding it up.

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Karnul

I'm a dumbass - took me about 20 min to get it up and running. Works great!

A readme file would've cut my up-and-running time to 5 minutes. I didn't click on the "general settings" for longer than I care to admit....

radio

c'mon - there's a HUGE assumption there... and that is that you would have read the README! lol! free version will get some nice upgrades (and a README) once I finish the premium version.

reworking the entire plugin and how it interacts w/ eBay, where it stores data, and making it more robust. good progress today!

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digga121

wow looks killer!

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Donace

NP radio looking forward to it...Gave it a quick test run and it got a conversion! So yea...sign me up!

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radio

that's great! i have this running on a couple test domains as it continues its development - i was surprised to see a couple sales today with the custom id "apidev" - API Development - lol!

spent the day breaking up the main function of the free version into multiple functions. implemented the default search settings and that's pretty sweet. saves having to enter the same parameters every search. also added a search results step that displays all the auctions returned from the query - the next step is to allow pruning of auctions that snuck into the search results.

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Benji49

Any timeline on when this is coming out of beta? How are the automation features coming along?
Last question: Have you settled on a price for the premium version yet?

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Benji49

Ahhhh, just read your blog.. June 1st. Ah, that's a bit long to wait. Maybe I'll have to jump in and become a beta tester.

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