We are pleased to release a new version, 1.7.0, of our Amazon Shopping Cart extension for Joomla. This is a package of Joomla extensions based around our AmazonWS plugin, that allows you to create a complete Amazon store on your Joomla website.
This is a maintenance release that includes some important new features:-
- Adds support for Easy Blog in Similar Products plugin
- Adds option to limit product title length for similar items
- Fixes meta keywords and description in component views
- Adds new Amazon Cart Icon module
- Adds storage of cart data to Joomla session
- Adds new Amazon Showcase module
- Makes the initial setup of the extension more user friendly
- Improves the router
- Adds optional delay to the Amazon REST requests, to help with throttling
- Adds option to refresh page when there are no results due to a failure to contact the server
- Sets the browser title to the product name when the page is an internal link
The new version includes two new modules: the Amazon Showcase module, and the Amazon Cart Icon module.
Showcase Module
The showcase module offers a simple way to showcase up to 10 selected Amazon products in a slideshow.
Cart Icon Module
The cart icon module provides a way of displaying summary cart information accessed through hovering over the icon, with a link to the main cart page.
