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Integrating Datafeed Studio with WordPress

Sometimes you may want to access product information contained within your affiliate datafeeds outside of a Datafeed Studio created site, e.g. inside a WordPress blog.
This post will show you how to easily achieve this if your WordPress site (or similar) resides on the same physical server as your Datafeed Studio installation. To illustrate what is [...]

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Two New Built-In Parsers

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 [...]

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Invasion of the SEO Friendly Slugs

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 [...]

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Local Site Styles Now Supported

The current release of Datafeed Studio now supports “local site styles”.
Previously a site would get all of its look and feel based on the theme it was associated with, e.g. Indiana Jones Toys is associated with the store theme known as “modern”.

However, if you then wanted to make a new store site with a different [...]

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Custom Product Support

Datafeed Studio now supports the addition of custom products for situations when you wish to add products to a database that for one reason or another don’t exist in a merchants datafeed.
One great alternate use for custom products is for creating affiliate sites with completely unique content.
Instead of using the information that comes from [...]

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Price Comparing a Product

Certain Datafeed Studio niche online store themes take advantage of the “Price Compare this Product?” input field that is available when you edit a product.
Normally, when you build a niche online store using Datafeed Studio it is in traditional “one product, one merchant” mode, i.e. the application displays the product information directly as it comes [...]

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