A new month, a new release of Datafeed Studio.
2.2 has a host of new features to make your affiliate life easier, and a few back-end fixes to make things tick along faster, especially if you your product database comes in at around the million product mark.
First of all, let’s get on to the good stuff. [...]

Whilst building my latest affiliate store for console bundles using Datafeed Studio I decided to add some new features to the application.
The main new feature is cache support across all the affiliate sites and pages created by Datafeed Studio. By setting the $CACHE_TIME_IN_SECONDS value in the main configuration file you can specify how long a [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes!
From V2 there is no PHP code in the Datafeed Studio templates!
This should be great news for template designers, as it is now much easier to modify the templates in an HTML editor of your choice without worrying about accidentally altering the obtrusive PHP code.
Technically Datafeed Studio now uses the great PHPTAL template system that [...]

It might only be a point release, but today’s release of v1.7.1 of Datafeed Studio is quite a major overhaul of the back-end administration UI, improving the usability and look’n’feel of the whole operation.

As well as the swish new UI, there are now integrated help links within the application that replace the need for the [...]

Today sees the release of v1.7 of Datafeed Studio.
“So what?” you cry.
Well, what about these killer features?

the ability to add static content pages to your stores with the built-in WYSIWYG editor
the ability to add a blog to your sites to keep your visitors informed with the latest news about your product niche / your [...]

I’m very pleased to announce the release of v1.6.5 of Datafeed Studio.
This release comes with a major new feature - a GUI Settings editor for your sites, no more editing the PHP configuration files in order to get the site you want.

To try out this new feature, log into the demo (http://olaxi.com/admin, username : demo, [...]

Yep - a new release!
This is a mix of some fairly minor bug fixes and usability improvements on the admin side.
The most useful addition are two new datafeed filters, that allow you to Prepend or Append your own content strings to any field in a feed, e.g. adding your own suffix to an affiliate URL.

added [...]

A bug fix release recommended for all users.
New in v1.6.3

fixed “Search results for” string on store default search results page, was missing product term
increased security on search queries to prevent possible XSS attacks
increased security on admin/bin/patch.php to disallow running from web environment
support for tab-separated feeds (parser separator of ‘\t’ without the quotes)
disallow index.php?id= URLs being [...]

Quick Update - the latest version (V1.6.2) of Datafeed Studio now comes with built-in datafeed parsers for the Paid On Results and ShareASale affiliate networks.
This now means that Datafeed Studio supports feeds from five different affiliate networks. Full list :

Affiliate Window
BuyAt
Paid on Results
Share A Sale
Trade Doubler

If you have any feedback on these parsers, or have [...]

Datafeed Studio now supports SEO friendly URLs for your product categories and products.
Previously, Datafeed Studio URLs were pretty ugly :
http://example.com/display_product.php?mykey=123_123456789

Now, if you enable the SEO_FRIENDLY_URLS option in the configuration (enabled by default) you will get product URLs in the form :
http://example.com/123_123456789.html

Hmm…I suppose that is a slight improvement I hear you say, but wouldn’t it be [...]