About this plugin
za is an online store that specializes in machinery sales.
Website
Visit the plugin website for online documentation.
Third party service description
za.
za as a third party service, in order for the plugin to work.
za store.
No personal data is collected during the process.
e. the sku, variant, value, search, format and affiliate shortcode parameters.
No other data of any kind, whatsoever, is used by this plugin, other than the parameters provided by the user to the plugin shortcode.
The only data currently submitted to the third party service via HTTP is the sku parameter, or the search and format parameters, depending on which of those parameters are explicitly provided to the shortcode.
Links to the third party service:
za
za
Data definition
AWS S3 is used to serve cached data when one of the above primary third party service data sources are not available.
Data received by the plugin via HTTP, is cached in the site’s local WordPress database, and deleted again when the plugin is uninstalled.
Third party services’ terms of use and privacy policies:
za/terms
za/privacy
Usage
To use the Buythis Shortcode plugin:
[buythis sku="sku" variant="variant" value="path" affiliate="affiliate_id"]
or
[buythis sku="sku" variant="variant" value="path" affiliate="affiliate_id"][/buythis]
The provided affiliate_id is used to generate revenue for a given affiliate, by using this plugin’s [buythis] shortcode on their WordPress site.
A site-wide default Affiliate ID can be configured on the Buythis Shortcode settings page, that will be used as a fallback value for the affiliate parameter, should one not be provided. This makes it easy to change the affiliate ID for a site, and prevents the need to duplicate and maintain the affiliate parameter in each usage of the shortcode.
Depending on the path specified in the value parameter, one or more API calls will be made to the following endpoints (sources), where [sku] is the provided sku parameter:
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Source
Endpoint URL
Example value parameter
data
json
full
display
json
content
price
json
sale
other
Dynamic fixed data
affiliate
The API response from a source is JSON-decoded, and the path specified by the value parameter is extracted from the JSON response.
Thus, to extract custom JSON data from a source’s API response, use a custom path in the value parameter to specify (describe) the source API and the JSON data to extract from it, as shown in each example value parameter above.
Product listing usage
[buythis search="RDWorks_Upgrade" format="cart"]
[buythis search="sku1, sku2, sku3" format="list"]
variant sku3" format="table1"]
variant, or sku3, will be displayed in the generated table.
Generated listing table format definitions:
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Table format
Generated table column headers
cart
Select, Image, SKU (and Name), Price, Quantity
list
Image, Description, Price (incl), Buy
table1
), Buy
Usage with WordPress Ajax
To render [buythis sku="sku" variant="variant" value="price" search="search" format="format" affiliate="affiliate_id"][/buythis] dynamically using jQuery:
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jQuery.post(
‘/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php’,
{
action: ‘buythis_shortcode_ajax’,
_ajax_nonce: ”,
sku: ‘sku’,
variant: ‘variant’,
value: ‘price’,
search: ‘search’,
format: ‘format’,
affiliate: ‘affiliate_id’
},
data => data && jQuery( ‘#buythis_plugin_content’ ).html( data )
);
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Shortcuts
The following shortcut value options are available:
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| Shortcut | Substituted path ( value parameter) |
|—————–|———————————————————————————————————-|
variant) |
content |
affiliate) |
simple)</a> |
simple |
regular) |
sale) |
regular) |
Syntax
In order of precedence:
- () (round braces) is used to treat a path as a format string, by only evaluating sub-paths in the format string that are contained within round braces, and leaving text in the rest of the format string that are outside round braces, intact. Nested braces, i.e. braces inside braces, are not supported, i.e. a sub-path cannot contain a format string. Round braces can contain shortcuts as sub-paths.
- | (OR) is to coalesce the first non-null result of a sub-path out of a set of path expressions. A sub-path can be a shortcut, but cannot contain round braces.
-. (period) is the JSON separator in a path.